Ideas for Discussion

Average: 5 (1 vote)

Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War

Author: 
Leymah Gbowee & Carol Mithers
List Price: 
$25.99
Type: 
Hardcover
In a time of death and terror, Leymah Gbowee brought Liberia’s women together—and together they led a nation to peace.
Average: 5 (1 vote)

See Me Naked: Stories of Sexual Exile in American Christianity

Author: 
Amy Frykholm
List Price: 
$24.95
Type: 
Hardcover
“A culturally significant collection that explores the challenges of reconciling pleasure with piety.”—Kirkus
Average: 5 (1 vote)

Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell and the Fate of Every Person Who Every Lived

Author: 
Rob Bell
List Price: 
$22.99
Type: 
Hardcover
“In Love Wins, Rob Bell tackles the old heaven-and-hell question and offers a courageous alternative answer." - Brian McLaren
Average: 5 (1 vote)

The Rise and Fall of the Bible: The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book

Author: 
Timothy Beal
List Price: 
$25.00
Type: 
Hardcover
"Beal's exciting book offers both fascinating history and a new and insightful way to approach the 'sacred text'." -John Shelby Spong
Average: 5 (2 votes)

God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible

Author: 
Adam Nicolson
List Price: 
$13.99
Type: 
Paperback
Adam Nicolson, in celebration of 400 years of the KJV, will be MassBible's 2011 Harrell F. Beck Lecturer.
Average: 5 (1 vote)

Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life

Author: 
Karen Armstrong
List Price: 
$22.95
Type: 
Hardcover
Karen Armstrong now gives us an impassioned and practical book that can help us make the world a more compassionate place.
Average: 5 (1 vote)

I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity

Author: 
Izzeldin Abeulaish
List Price: 
$24.00
Type: 
Hardcover
His deepest hope is that his daughters will be "the last sacrifice on the road to peace between Palestinians and Israelis."
Average: 5 (1 vote)

Unprotected Texts: The Bible's Surprising Contradictions about Sex and Desire

Author: 
Jennifer Wright Knust
List Price: 
$25.99
Type: 
Hardcover
Bible scholar Jennifer Wright Knust addresses the big questions that dominate today's discussions and debates when it comes to sex and the Bible
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Average: 5 (2 votes)

Dreaming of Eden: American Religion and Politics in a Wired World

Author: 
Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite
List Price: 
$35.00
Type: 
Hardcover
“This book is a powerful and prophetic work of public theology for our idolatrous times." -- Cornel West
Average: 5 (1 vote)

American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us

Author: 
Robert E. Putnam & David E. Campbell
List Price: 
$30.00
Type: 
Hardcover
American Grace is a major achievement, a groundbreaking examination of religion in America.