Religion and Spirituality

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Updated March 6, 2026
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Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus
Elaine Pagels
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER . From a renowned National Book Award-winning scholar, an extraordinary new account of the life of Jesus that explores the mystery of how a poor young man inspired a religion that reshaped the world. "This is a brilliant and necessary book. Sober,...
Tame Your Thoughts Three Tools to Renew Your Mind and Transform Your Life
Max Lucado
Ebook
The Bible Says So: What We Get Right (and Wrong) About Scripture’s Most Controversial Issues
Dan McClellan
Paper Book
NOW A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Bible scholar and popular TikToker Dan McClellan confronts misconceptions about the Bible. The Bible is the world's most influential book, but do we really know what it says? Every day...
A Change of Habit: Leaving Behind My Husband, Career, and Everything I Owned to Become a Nun
Sister Monica Clare
Paper Book
The soulful, hilarious memoir of a chronic people pleaser who surprised everyone in her life by abandoning an unfulfilling career and marriage to join a convent-and learned how much we stand to gain when we fully embrace our authentic selves "A Change of Habit follows...
The Lost Mary: Rediscovering the Mother of Jesus
James D. Tabor
Paper Book
A world-renowned historian of early Christianity and ancient Judaism lifts the veil on the life of Mary--revealing her revolutionary role as the matriarch of the Jesus movement "A great leap forward in understanding and contextualizing Mary's life, after two millennia of her...
Twelve Churches: An Unlikely History of the Buildings That Made Christianity
Reverend Fergus Butler-Gallie
Paper Book
Karen Armstrong meets Pico Iyer in this sweeping history of Christianity that visits a dozen places of worship on every inhabited continent to tell their often wild stories and examine their sometimes difficult legacies. Christianity is the largest religion in the US with upwards...
Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds
John Fugelsang
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * In the spirit of George Carlin and Christopher Hitchens, the son of a former Catholic nun and a Franciscan brother delivers a deeply irreverent and biblically correct takedown of far-right Christian hatred--a book for believers, atheists, agnostics, and anyone...
Better Ways to Read the Bible: Transforming a Weapon of Harm into a Tool of Healing (Four New Lenses for Making Sense of Scripture)
Zach W. Lambert
Ebook
Zach Lambert has seen the Bible used countless times as something far from the "Good Book"--both in his own life and in the experiences of others. He has seen the Bible weaponized to subjugate women, justify racism, bash LGBTQ+ people, cover up abuse, and exclude people who speak out against these...
Augustine the African
Catherine Conybeare
Ebook
An extraordinary work of revisionist history that centers Africa in the life of one of our greatest philosophers. Augustine of Hippo (354-430), also known as Saint Augustine, was one of the most influential theologians in history. His...
Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church
Kevin Sack
Paper Book
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES' TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR * A sweeping history of one of the nation's most important African American churches and a profound story of courage and grace amid the fight for racial justice--from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Kevin Sack "A...
The Missionary Kids: Unmasking the Myths of White Evangelicalism
Holly Berkley Fletcher
Ebook
As sidekicks to their parents' and churches' ambitions, missionary kids (MKs) face questions many white Christians eventually ask: about God's calling, sacrifice, faith, privilege, racism, abuse, and what belonging means. In The Missionary Kids, Holly Berkley Fletcher reveals how MKs have...
Islam: A New History from Muhammad to the Present
John Tolan
Paper Book
A concise new narrative history of Islam that draws on the transformative insights of recent research to emphasize the diversity and dynamism of the tradition Today's Muslim world is in upheaval: legalists and mystics engage in intense debates, radical groups invoke Sharia,...
How to Be a Saint: An Extremely Weird and Mildly Sacrilegious History of The Catholic Church's Biggest Names
Kate Sidley
Paper Book
Part history lesson. Part sacrilege. An entirely good time. Think you have what it takes to be a saint? Lucky for you, thousands of souls have paved the way to heaven--creating a clear formula for getting the job done while also leaving a rich, disturbing history behind them. And in just...

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