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  How (Not) to Speak of God

  by Peter Rollins

  With sensitivity to the Christian tradition and a rich understanding of postmodern thought, Peter Rollins argues that the movement known as the “emerging church” offers a singular, unprecedented message of transformation that has the potential to revolutionize the theological and moral architecture of Western Christianity. How (not) to Speak of God sets out to explore the theory and praxis of this... (more)
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  Jesus Wants to Save Christians

  A Manifesto for the Church in Exile

  by Rob Bell, Don Golden

  There is a church not too far from us that recently added a $25 million addition to their building. Our local newspaper ran a front-page story not too long ago about a study revealing that one in five people in our city lives in poverty. This is a book about those two numbers.
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  Deep Church: A Third Way Beyond Emerging and Traditional

  by Jim Belcher

  Feel caught between the traditional church and the emerging church? Discover a third way: deep church. C. S. Lewis used the phrase "deep church" to describe the body of believers committed to mere Christianity. Unfortunately church in our postmodern era has been marked by a certain shallowness. Emerging authors, fed up with contemporary pragmatism, have offered alternative visions for twenty-first-century... (more)
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  A New Kind of Christian

  A Tale of Two Friends on a Spiritual Journey

  by Brian D. McLaren

  A Leadership Network Publication A New Kind of Christian 's conversation between a pastor and his daughter's high school science teacher reveals that wisdom for life's most pressing spiritual questions can come from the most unlikely sources. This stirring fable captures a new spirit of Christianity--where personal, daily interaction with God is more important than institutional church structures, where... (more)
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  The Forgotten Ways

  Reactivating the Missional Church

  by Alan Hirsch

  Alan Hirsch is convinced that the inherited formulas for growing the Body of Christ do not work anymore. And rather than relying on slightly revised solutions from the past, he sees a vision of the future growth of the church coming about by harnessing the power of the early church, which grew from as few as 25,000 adherents in AD 100 to up to 20 million in AD 310. Such incredible growth is also being experienced... (more)
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  Blue Like Jazz

  Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

  by Donald Miller

  I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. . . . I used to not like God because God didn't resolve. But that was before any of this happened. In Donald Miller's early years, he was vaguely familiar with a distant God. But when he came to know Jesus Christ, he pursued the Christian life with great zeal. Within a few years he had a successful ministry that ultimately left him feeling empty, burned... (more)
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  Orthodox Heretic: And Other Impossible Tales

  by Peter Rollins

  “This book should be banned! It’s DANGEROUS!” * * So might any Christian say for whom faith functions like a comfortable chair and a lot of good will. If you are comfy and satisfied, then what you have might not be faith after all, explains Peter Rollins. Christian faith only has meaning if it affects the ways that people live their lives. For many who are not Christians, critiquing Christianity from the... (more)
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  Everything Must Change

  Jesus, Global Crises, and a Revolution of Hope

  by Brian D. McLaren

  How do the life and teachings of Jesus address the most critical global problems in our world today? In Everything Must Change, you will accompany Brian around the world on a search for answers. Along the way you'll experience intrigue, alarm, challenge, insight, and hope. You'll get a fresh and provocative vision of Jesus and his teachings. And you'll see how his core message can infuse us with purpose and... (more)
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  Re-enchanting Christianity

  by Dave Tomlinson

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  Adventures in Missing the Point: How the Culture-Controlled Church Neutered the Gospel

  by Anthony Campolo, Brian D. McLaren

  There is a stirring among churchgoers. Many are looking at how the Christian faith is being played out, wondering if somehow we’re missing the point. What if there is more to our faith than just getting our souls into heaven? What if there is a power in the gospel that’s been kept under lock and key because of our culture-controlled church? If we placed our beliefs and their origins under the microscope, what... (more)
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  Becoming Conversant with the Emerging Church: Understanding a Movement and Its Implications

  by D. A. Carson

  A perceptive evaluation of the new "emerging church" movement showing how we must not only interact with a fast-changing culture but also have our vision and practice of ministry shaped by biblical theology with Scripture as the norm.
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  The Story We Find Ourselves In

  Further Adventures of a New Kind of Christian

  by Brian D. McLaren

  After many years as a successful pastor, Brian McLaren has found, as more and more Christians are finding, that none of the current strains of Christianity fully describes his own faith. In T he Story We Find Ourselves In — the much anticipated sequel to his award-winning book A New Kind of Christian — McLaren captures a new spirit of a relevant Christianity, where traditional divisions and doctrinal differences... (more)
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  A Generous Orthodoxy

  Why I am a Missional, Evangelical, Post/Protestant, Liberal/Conservative, Mystical/Poetic, Biblical, Charismatic/Contemplative, ... Emergent, Unfinished Christian

  by Brian D. McLaren

  By celebrating strengths of many traditions in the church (and beyond), this book will seek to communicate a "generous orthodoxy."
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  How (Not) to Speak of God

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  Insurrection

  To Believe Is Human; To Doubt Is Divine

  by Peter Rollins

  Theological firebrand Peter Rollins boldly asserts that Christianity is the religion of doubt. Through a skillful blend of parables, theology, and anecdotes, Peter Rollins offers a radical thesis: that Christianity, from its very inception, has been a protest against religion. Far from being a faith that celebrates knowledge, dogma, and certainty, Insurrection develops the concept that participation in the... (more)
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  Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World

  by Michael Dowd

  Finally, the war between science and religion is over. The winner? All of us. With supporters from an incredibly wide spectrum of backgrounds and beliefs, including five Nobel laureates, Thank God for Evolution! builds bridges, provides guidance, and restores realistic hope for humanity and the body of life as a whole. A movement has been growing over the past few decades that takes our common creation story... (more)
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  The Mystic Way of Evangelism

  A Contemplative Vision for Christian Outreach

  by Elaine A. Heath

  Although each generation searches for effective ways to be salt and light, Elaine Heath argues that the church is currently in an especially difficult place--a dark night of the soul. She calls the church to embrace, rather than ignore, its difficulties and find different ways of doing outreach. Heath brings a fresh perspective to the theory and practice of evangelism by approaching it through contemplative... (more)
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  Dirty Word: The Vulgar, Offensive Languages of the Kingdom of God

  by James Perry Walker, Jim Parker Walker

  Jesus said he came to heal the sick, not the well. Even so, some churches have a feeling about them that is vaguely antiseptic, where there seems to be an unspoken pressure to censor any unpleasantness. Jim Walker wanted to build a church that was honest and that lived out its mission down in the muck of life where Jesus calls us to get our hands dirty. In the rough and often unpleasant neighborhoods of the South... (more)
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  The Sacredness of Questioning Everything

  by David Dark

  In this provocative, entertaining book, author David Dark writes, “The summons to sacred questioning, like a call to honesty, like a call to prayer, is a call to be true and to let the chips fall where they may.” Far from being a sign of cynicism or weakness, questions are not only positive but crucial for our health and well-being.
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  Emerging Church, The

  by Dan Kimball

  Churches are noticing less and less emerging generations in their midst. The Emerging Church, winner of the 2004 Christianity Today Book Award, explores the cultural changes impacting churches and offers practical advice of how they can creatively reach emerging generations. Some of the "spiritual" things that were removed from churches are the very things that post-Christian generations are connecting with and... (more)