God Believes in Love
Straight Talk About Gay Marriage
Written by Gene Robinson
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $15.00
From the IX Bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire in the Episcopal Church, the first openly gay person elected to the episcopate and the world’s leading religious spokesperson for gay rights and gay marriage—a groundbreaking book that persuasively makes the case for same-sex marriage using a commonsense, reasoned, religious argument.
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God Believes in Love
Straight Talk About Gay Marriage
Written by Gene Robinson
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $24.00
From the Bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire in the Episcopal Church, the first openly gay person elected (in 2003) to the historic episcopate and the world's leading religious spokesperson for gay rights and gay marriage—a groundbreaking book that lovingly and persuasively makes the case for same-sex marriage using a...
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God Believes in Love
Straight Talk About Gay Marriage
Written by Gene Robinson
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $11.99
From the Bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire in the Episcopal Church, the first openly gay person elected (in 2003) to the historic episcopate and the world's leading religious spokesperson for gay rights and gay marriage—a groundbreaking book that lovingly and persuasively makes the case for same-sex marriage using a...
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The Murmuring Deep
Reflections on the Biblical Unconscious
Written by Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $19.95
Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg informs her literary analysis of the biblical text with concepts drawn from Freud, Winnicott, Laplanche, and other psychoanalytic thinkers to make a powerful argument for the idea that the creators of the midrashic commentary, the medieval rabbinic commentators, and the Hassidic commentators were themselves on some level aware...
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Exploring Exodus
The Origins of Biblical Israel
Written by Nahum M. Sarna
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: August 10, 2011
Price: $14.99
Sarna examines the distinctiveness of the Exodus narrative in light of ancient Near Eastern history and contemporaneous cultures--Egyptian, Assyrian, Canaanite, and Babylonian. In a new Foreword to the 1996 edition, Sarna takes up the debate over whether the exodus from Egypt really happened, clarifying the arguments on both sides and drawing...
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In the Beginning
A New Interpretation of Genesis
Written by Karen Armstrong
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: August 10, 2011
Price: $13.99
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Karen Armstrong's
Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life.In this fascinating book by the author of A History of God and Jerusalem, one of the best-known and least-understood books of the Bible is clarified for modern readers. Armstrong shows readers how the ancient tales of...
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Perfidious Proverbs and Other Poems
A Satirical Look At The Bible
Written by Philip Appleman
Format: Trade Paperback, 130 pages
On Sale: July 26, 2011
Price: $14.00
This collection of satirical poems homes in on the inconsistencies and downright perversities of what passes in our culture as "Holy Writ." Turning to satire, with its long and distinguished record of exposing folly and bringing enlightenment through humor, the author leaves no doubt that primitive religion posing as eternal truth...
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Harlot by the Side of the Road
Written by Jonathan Kirsch
Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: September 23, 2009
Price: $13.99
Sex. Violence. Scandal. These are words we rarely associate with the sacred text of the Bible. Yet in this brilliant new book, Jonathan Kirsch shows that the Old Testament is filled with some of the most startling and explicit stories in all of Western literature. These tales of seduction and rape...
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The Murmuring Deep
Reflections on the Biblical Unconscious
Written by Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 31, 2009
Price: $16.99
From one of the most innovative and acclaimed biblical commentators at work today, here is a revolutionary analysis of the intersection between religion and psychoanalysis in the stories of the men and women of the Bible.
For centuries scholars and rabbis have wrestled with the biblical narrative, attempting to answer the...
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Inerrant the Wind
The Evangelical Crisis in Biblical Authority
Written by Robert M. Price
Format: Hardcover, 322 pages
On Sale: December 16, 2008
Price: $25.99
Conservative Protestantism in America has always wrestled with doctrinal controversies over issues ranging from predestination to the mode of baptism, from charismatic gifts to biblical prophecy. But probably none has threatened the American evangelical movement as much as the recent "battle for the Bible." The dispute centers on the doctrine of...
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The End of Biblical Studies
Written by Hector Avalos
Format: Hardcover, 299 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2007
Price: $32.99
In this radical critique of his own academic specialty, biblical scholar Hector Avalos calls for an end to biblical studies as we know them. He outlines two main arguments for this surprising conclusion. First, academic biblical scholarship has clearly succeeded in showing that the ancient civilization that produced the Bible held...
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The Reason Driven Life
What Am I Here on Earth For?
Written by Robert M. Price
Format: Hardcover, 370 pages
On Sale: September 5, 2006
Price: $26.99
Pastor Rick Warren’s The Purpose-Driven Life has been both a commercially successful best seller and a widely influential book in the Christian community. As a rejoinder to the fundamentalist assumptions of Warren’s book, Robert Price, a biblical scholar, a member of the Jesus Seminar, and a former liberal Baptist pastor, offers...
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Julian's Against the Galileans
Written by Julian Emperor Of Rome
Format: Hardcover, 218 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2004
Price: $35.99
Flavius Claudius Julianus, better known to history by the name imposed by his Christian opponents, Julian "the Apostate," was a nephew of the first Christian emperor, Constantine I. Julian is one of the most fascinating figures of late antiquity. More information is available about him from both pagan and Christian sources...
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Understanding the Bible
An Introduction for Skeptics, Seekers, and Religious Liberals
Written by John Beuhrens
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: June 15, 2004
Price: $16.00
A thoughtful, warm, and witty introduction
Understanding the Bible is designed to help empower skeptics, seekers, nonbelievers, and those of a liberal and progressive outlook to reclaim the Bible from literalists. In making accessible some of the best contemporary historical, literary, political, and feminist readings of the Hebrew and Christian scriptures...
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