Best books for the spiritually lost millennial Christian

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The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It
The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It 4.22 avg rating — 5,797 ratings
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Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again
Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again 4.39 avg rating — 16,972 ratings
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Hell Is a World Without You
Hell Is a World Without You 4.47 avg rating — 2,048 ratings
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Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
by: Rob Bell
3.66 avg rating — 28,872 ratings
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Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church 4.21 avg rating — 24,629 ratings
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What Is the Bible?: How an Ancient Library of Poems, Letters, and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything
What Is the Bible?: How an Ancient Library of Poems, Letters, and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything
by: Rob Bell
4.32 avg rating — 8,795 ratings
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I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness 4.38 avg rating — 72,271 ratings
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How the Bible Actually Works: In Which I Explain How An Ancient, Ambiguous, and Diverse Book Leads Us to Wisdom Rather Than Answers―and Why That's Great News
How the Bible Actually Works: In Which I Explain How An Ancient, Ambiguous, and Diverse Book Leads Us to Wisdom Rather Than Answers―and Why That's Great News 4.28 avg rating — 3,921 ratings
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A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband "Master"
A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband "Master" 4.03 avg rating — 16,879 ratings
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Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint
Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint 4.33 avg rating — 13,869 ratings
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The Ragamuffin Gospel
The Ragamuffin Gospel 4.19 avg rating — 39,303 ratings
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Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God: The Scandalous Truth of the Very Good News
Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God: The Scandalous Truth of the Very Good News 4.43 avg rating — 2,496 ratings
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The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe
The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe 4.45 avg rating — 9,118 ratings
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Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People
Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People 4.20 avg rating — 13,994 ratings
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The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust More Than Our "Correct" Beliefs
The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust More Than Our "Correct" Beliefs 4.25 avg rating — 4,251 ratings
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Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer
Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer 4.27 avg rating — 5,210 ratings
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Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith
Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith
by: Rob Bell
3.79 avg rating — 24,638 ratings
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Finding God in the Waves: How I Lost My Faith and Found It Again Through Science
Finding God in the Waves: How I Lost My Faith and Found It Again Through Science 4.23 avg rating — 5,016 ratings
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Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and the Problem of the Old Testament
Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and the Problem of the Old Testament 4.11 avg rating — 1,429 ratings
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Insurrection: To Believe Is Human To Doubt, Divine
Insurrection: To Believe Is Human To Doubt, Divine 4.11 avg rating — 1,335 ratings
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Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible's View of Women
Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible's View of Women 3.90 avg rating — 12,275 ratings
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God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships
God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships 4.02 avg rating — 4,061 ratings
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Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions
Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions 4.24 avg rating — 10,818 ratings
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Reality, Grief, Hope: Three Urgent Prophetic Tasks
Reality, Grief, Hope: Three Urgent Prophetic Tasks 4.17 avg rating — 287 ratings
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Disarming Scripture: Cherry-Picking Liberals, Violence-Loving Conservatives, and Why We All Need to Learn to Read the Bible Like Jesus Did
Disarming Scripture: Cherry-Picking Liberals, Violence-Loving Conservatives, and Why We All Need to Learn to Read the Bible Like Jesus Did 4.18 avg rating — 397 ratings
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Out of Sorts: Making Peace with an Evolving Faith
Out of Sorts: Making Peace with an Evolving Faith 4.23 avg rating — 4,575 ratings
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The Evolution of Adam: What the Bible Does and Doesn't Say about Human Origins
The Evolution of Adam: What the Bible Does and Doesn't Say about Human Origins 3.97 avg rating — 1,293 ratings
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What We Talk about When We Talk about God
What We Talk about When We Talk about God
by: Rob Bell
3.91 avg rating — 7,829 ratings
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The Shack
The Shack 3.84 avg rating — 682,783 ratings
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Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
by: Bob Goff
4.31 avg rating — 99,375 ratings
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Everything Must Change
Everything Must Change 3.78 avg rating — 1,832 ratings
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A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith
A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith 3.99 avg rating — 3,045 ratings
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Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free 4.17 avg rating — 6,081 ratings
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Changing Our Mind
Changing Our Mind 4.30 avg rating — 1,271 ratings
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Rescuing Jesus: How People of Color, Women, and Queer Christians are Reclaiming Evangelicalism
Rescuing Jesus: How People of Color, Women, and Queer Christians are Reclaiming Evangelicalism 4.20 avg rating — 381 ratings
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Faith after Doubt: Why Your Beliefs Stopped Working and What to Do about It
Faith after Doubt: Why Your Beliefs Stopped Working and What to Do about It 4.30 avg rating — 2,678 ratings
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Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith
Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith 4.13 avg rating — 9,277 ratings
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The Practice of the Presence of God
The Practice of the Presence of God 4.33 avg rating — 55,773 ratings
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God in Pain: Teaching Sermons on Suffering (Teaching Sermons Series) (Teaching Sermon Series)
God in Pain: Teaching Sermons on Suffering (Teaching Sermons Series) (Teaching Sermon Series) 4.29 avg rating — 127 ratings
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The Great Spiritual Migration: How the World's Largest Religion Is Seeking a Better Way to Be Christian
The Great Spiritual Migration: How the World's Largest Religion Is Seeking a Better Way to Be Christian 4.10 avg rating — 1,216 ratings
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The Wisdom Jesus: Transforming Heart and Mind
The Wisdom Jesus: Transforming Heart and Mind 4.14 avg rating — 2,804 ratings
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The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible
The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible 4.06 avg rating — 4,511 ratings
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The Very Worst Missionary: A Memoir or Whatever
The Very Worst Missionary: A Memoir or Whatever 4.06 avg rating — 3,895 ratings
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A Generous Orthodoxy: Why I am a missional, evangelical, post/protestant, liberal/conservative, biblical, charismatic/contemplative, fundamentalist/calvinist, anabaptist/anglican, incarnational, depressed-yet-hopeful, emergent, unfinished Christian
A Generous Orthodoxy: Why I am a missional, evangelical, post/protestant, liberal/conservative, biblical, charismatic/contemplative, fundamentalist/calvinist, anabaptist/anglican, incarnational, depressed-yet-hopeful, emergent, unfinished Christian 3.70 avg rating — 6,235 ratings
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Immortal Diamond: The Search for Our True Self
Immortal Diamond: The Search for Our True Self 4.20 avg rating — 4,182 ratings
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A More Christlike God: A More Beautiful Gospel
A More Christlike God: A More Beautiful Gospel 4.41 avg rating — 839 ratings
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Just This: Prompts And Practices For Contemplation
Just This: Prompts And Practices For Contemplation 4.53 avg rating — 521 ratings
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Everything Is Spiritual: Finding Your Way in a Turbulent World
Everything Is Spiritual: Finding Your Way in a Turbulent World
by: Rob Bell
4.17 avg rating — 3,227 ratings
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The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church 4.19 avg rating — 5,867 ratings
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How (Not) to Speak of God: Marks of the Emerging Church
How (Not) to Speak of God: Marks of the Emerging Church 4.11 avg rating — 1,526 ratings
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A New Kind of Christian: A Tale of Two Friends on a Spiritual Journey
A New Kind of Christian: A Tale of Two Friends on a Spiritual Journey 3.83 avg rating — 4,926 ratings
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Open Mind, Open Heart: The Contemplative Dimension of the Gospel
Open Mind, Open Heart: The Contemplative Dimension of the Gospel 4.05 avg rating — 2,839 ratings
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Transforming: The Bible & the Lives of Transgender Christians
Transforming: The Bible & the Lives of Transgender Christians 4.39 avg rating — 1,013 ratings
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Unafraid: Moving Beyond Fear-Based Faith
Unafraid: Moving Beyond Fear-Based Faith 4.21 avg rating — 204 ratings
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Where the Colors Blend: An Authentic Journey Through Spiritual Doubt and Despair … and a Beautiful Arrival at Hope
Where the Colors Blend: An Authentic Journey Through Spiritual Doubt and Despair … and a Beautiful Arrival at Hope 4.82 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Broken Daydreams: Otherwise Known As My Eclectic, Sometimes Random, Almost Optimistic, Unconventional Thoughts On How To Redeem A Fractured Generation
Broken Daydreams: Otherwise Known As My Eclectic, Sometimes Random, Almost Optimistic, Unconventional Thoughts On How To Redeem A Fractured Generation 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Some Answered Questions
Some Answered Questions 4.71 avg rating — 407 ratings
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Reckless Surrender: You are One Decision Away from Fulfilling Your Purpose on this Earth
Reckless Surrender: You are One Decision Away from Fulfilling Your Purpose on this Earth it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Christians Against Christianity: How Right-Wing Evangelicals Are Destroying Our Nation and Our Faith
Christians Against Christianity: How Right-Wing Evangelicals Are Destroying Our Nation and Our Faith 4.20 avg rating — 513 ratings
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Kristian's War (The Searchers Series, #1)
Kristian's War (The Searchers Series, #1) 3.99 avg rating — 82 ratings
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The Book of Queer Prophets: 21 Writers on Sexuality and Religion
The Book of Queer Prophets: 21 Writers on Sexuality and Religion
by: Ruth Hunt
4.12 avg rating — 526 ratings
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Shine
Shine 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Walking With Saint James: 31 Meditations for Pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago
Walking With Saint James: 31 Meditations for Pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Lost Faith: A Practical Theology for Post-Christendom Ministry
Lost Faith: A Practical Theology for Post-Christendom Ministry 4.81 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Heart of the Gospel
The Heart of the Gospel 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Grieving God: Spiritual Formation for Post-Christendom Ministry
Grieving God: Spiritual Formation for Post-Christendom Ministry 4.91 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Seven Storey Mountain
The Seven Storey Mountain 4.08 avg rating — 20,434 ratings
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Thief in the Night
Thief in the Night 4.43 avg rating — 331 ratings
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Contemplative Tarot
Contemplative Tarot 4.07 avg rating — 123 ratings
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The Future of Man
The Future of Man really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 235 ratings
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The Wine of Astonishment
The Wine of Astonishment 4.42 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Choosing Our Religion: The Spiritual Lives of America's Nones
Choosing Our Religion: The Spiritual Lives of America's Nones 4.30 avg rating — 64 ratings
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The Kitáb-i-Íqán: The Book of Certitude
The Kitáb-i-Íqán: The Book of Certitude 4.64 avg rating — 424 ratings
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Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation 4.27 avg rating — 36,187 ratings
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The Hidden Words
The Hidden Words 4.57 avg rating — 571 ratings
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Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved 3.80 avg rating — 51,874 ratings
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The Secret Message of Jesus: Uncovering the Truth That Could Change Everything
The Secret Message of Jesus: Uncovering the Truth That Could Change Everything 3.80 avg rating — 2,013 ratings
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Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution
Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution 3.82 avg rating — 7,471 ratings
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How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now
How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now 4.33 avg rating — 1,087 ratings
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Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others
Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others 4.39 avg rating — 5,302 ratings
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Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church
Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church 4.31 avg rating — 15,274 ratings
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The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine
The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine 3.99 avg rating — 10,833 ratings
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Learning to Walk in the Dark
Learning to Walk in the Dark 4.03 avg rating — 9,171 ratings
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How God Changes Your Brain: Breakthrough Findings from a Leading Neuroscientist
How God Changes Your Brain: Breakthrough Findings from a Leading Neuroscientist 3.95 avg rating — 1,338 ratings
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Faith Shift: Finding Your Way Forward When Everything You Believe Is Coming Apart
Faith Shift: Finding Your Way Forward When Everything You Believe Is Coming Apart 4.16 avg rating — 410 ratings
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The Sacred Way: Spiritual Practices for Everyday Life
The Sacred Way: Spiritual Practices for Everyday Life 3.90 avg rating — 293 ratings
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The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier
The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier 3.62 avg rating — 346 ratings
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The Orthodox Heretic And Other Impossible Tales
The Orthodox Heretic And Other Impossible Tales 4.23 avg rating — 1,567 ratings
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Ends and Means
Ends and Means 4.18 avg rating — 251 ratings
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Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening
Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening 4.05 avg rating — 2,260 ratings
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Queer Virtue: What LGBTQ People Know About Life and Love and How It Can Revitalize Christianity
Queer Virtue: What LGBTQ People Know About Life and Love and How It Can Revitalize Christianity 4.12 avg rating — 304 ratings
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Intimacy With God: An Introduction to Centering Prayer
Intimacy With God: An Introduction to Centering Prayer 4.19 avg rating — 664 ratings
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Torn: Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays-Vs.-Christians Debate
Torn: Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays-Vs.-Christians Debate 4.32 avg rating — 4,531 ratings
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Love Is an Orientation: Elevating the Conversation with the Gay Community
Love Is an Orientation: Elevating the Conversation with the Gay Community 4.01 avg rating — 1,279 ratings
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God Loves Sex: An Honest Conversation about Sexual Desire and Holiness
God Loves Sex: An Honest Conversation about Sexual Desire and Holiness 3.94 avg rating — 285 ratings