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2013

Does Jesus Really Love Me? A Gay Christian’s Pilgrimage in Search of God in America
by Jeff Chu

Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and Mohammed Cross the Road? Christian Identity in a Multi-faith World
by Brian McLaren

A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband “Master”
by Rachel Held Evans

The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor’s Journey into Christian Faith
by Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

A Strange Stirring: “The Feminine Mystique” and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s
by Stephanie Coontz

When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present
by Gail Collins

2012

A Time to Embrace: Same-Sex Relationships in Religion, Law, and Politics
(Second Edition)
by William Stacy Johnson.

Existential Reasons for Belief in God: A Defense of Desires and Emotions for Faith
by Cliff Williams

Three Books on Giving Up Church
The Resignation of Eve by Jim Henderson
Higher Ground by Carolyn S. Briggs
Breaking Up with God by Sarah Sentilles
A review essay by Kendra Weddle Irons

Transforming Vision: Explorations in Feminist The*logy
by Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza

Changing Church: Stories of Liberating Ministers
by Jann Aldredge-Clanton

Sacred Work: Planned Parenthood and Its Clergy Alliances
by Tom Davis

2011

Integral Christianity: The Spirit’s Call to Evolve
by Paul R. Smith

A Sword between the Sexes? C. S. Lewis and the Gender Debates
by Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen

Unfinished Lives: Reviving the Memories of LGBTQ Hate Crimes Victims
by Stephen V. Sprinkle

The Sacredness of Questioning Everything
by David Dark

Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions
by Rachel Held Evans

Love Wins: A Book about Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
by Rob Bell

Let’s Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship
by Gail Caldwell

Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague
by Geraldine Brooks

Is It Okay To Call God “Mother”?: Considering the Feminine Face of God
by Paul R. Smith

The Heartbeat of God: Finding the Sacred in the Middle of Everything
by Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori

Living into Hope: A Call to Spiritual Action for Such a Time as This
by Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell

An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith
by Barbara Brown Taylor

2010

The Galilean Secret: A Novel
by Evan Drake Howard

Bulletproof Faith: A Spiritual Survival Guide for Gay and Lesbian Christians
by Candace Chellow-Hodge

Love Is an Orientation: Elevating the Conversation with the Gay Community
by Andrew Marin

Anticancer: A New Way of Life
by David Servan-Schreiber

New Feminist Christianity: Many Voices, Many Views
by Mary E. Hunt and Diann L. Neu

The Help
by Kathryn Stockett

Girldrive: Criss-Crossing America, Redefining Feminism
by Nona Willis

Jesus Girls: True Tales of Growing Up Female and Evangelical
edited by Hannah Faith Notess

Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home
by Rhoda Janzen

New Jewish Feminism: Probing the Past, Forging the Future
edited by Elyse Goldstein

2009

A People’s History of Christianity: The Other Side of the Story
by Diana Butler Bass

In the Land of the Living: Prayers Personal and Public
by Kenneth L. Sehested

Roman House Churches for Today: A Practical Guide for Small Groups
by Reta Halteman Finger

God the What? What Our Metaphors for God Reveal About Our Beliefs in God
by Carolyn Jane Bohler

Where Am I Wearing? A Global Tour of the Countries, Factories, and People that Make Our Clothes
by Kelsey Timmerman

A Friendly Letter to Skeptics and Atheists: Musings on Why God Is Good and Faith Isn’t Evil
by David G. Myers

Woman Spirit Awakening in Nature: Growing into the Fullness of Who You Are
by Nancy Barrett Chickerneo

Dating Jesus: A Story of Fundamentalism, Feminism, and the American Girl
by Susan Campbell

Taking Back God: American Women Rising Up for Religious Equality
by Leora Tanenbaum

2008

Ruth, A Portrait: The Story of Ruth Bell Graham
by Patricia Cornwell

The Power of the Word: Scripture and the Rhetoric of Empire
by Elisabeth Schüssler

Walking with Wisdom’s Daughters: Twelve Celebrations and Stories of Women of Passion and Faith
by Gloria Ulterino

Engaging the Bible: Critical Readings from Contemporary Women
ed. Choi Hee An and Katheryn Pfisterer Darr

Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back
by Frank Schaeffer

Of Widows and Meals: Communal Meals in the Book of Acts
by Reta Halteman Finger

If Grace is True: Why God Will Save Every Person (2003)
If God is Love: Rediscovering Grace in an Ungracious World (2004)
by Philip Gulley and James Mulholland

Porch Talk: Stories of Decency, Common Sense, and Other Endangered Species
Home to Harmony
by Philip Gulley

Semisweetness and Light
by Mary Cartledgehayes

A Woman’s Place: House Churches in Earliest Christianity
by Margaret Y. MacDonald and Carolyn Osiek, with Janet Tulloch

Being Feminist, Being Christian: Essays from Academia
ed. Allyson Jule and Bettina Tate Pedersen.

The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus
by Amy-Jill Levine

Refuge From Abuse;
by Nancy Nason-Clark & Catherine Clark Kroeger

Silent Lives: How High a Price?
by Sara L. Boesser

Faith Cure: Divine Healing in the Holiness and Pentecostal Movements
by Nancy A. Hardesty

Church on Trial? A Mother’s Perspective
by Carolyn Paige

2004

Soul Sisters: Women in Scripture Speak to Women Today
by Edwina Gateley, with art by Louis Glanzman

Early Christian Families in Context: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue
edited by David L. Balch and Carolyn Osiek

Evangelical Identity and Gendered Family Life
by Sally K. Gallagher

Gender, Ethnicity, and Religion: Views from the Other Side
edited by Rosemary Radford Ruether

Eve’s Revenge: Women and a Spirituality of the Body
by Lilian Calles Barger

Oh, What a Difference God Makes! The Religious Beliefs and Lives of Sigmund Freud and C. S. Lewis
a review essay by Elizabeth Bowman, M.D. of The Question of God by Armand M. Nicholi, Jr., M.D.

2003

Growing into God
book by Edwina Gateley, music by Kathryn Christian

After the Locusts: Letters from a Landscape of Faith
by Denise M. Ackermann, foreword by Desmond Tutu

Growing Old in Christ
edited by Stanley Hauerwas, Carole Bailey Stoneking, Keith G. Meador, and David Cloutier

Gather into One: Praying and Singing Globally
by C. Michael Hawn

Matthew and Empire: Initial Explorations
by Warren Carter

25 Years in the Garden
by Jeanette Stokes

“Another Blind Spot Exposed”
a review essay by Reta Halteman Finger (discusses Postcolonial Feminist Interpretation of the Bible by Musa W. Dube, and Decolonizing Biblical Studies: A View from the Marginsby Fernando F. Segovia.)

Strength for the Journey: A Pilgrimage of Faith in Community
by Diana Butler Bass