This is a curated list of books that the Nomad hosts, guests and listeners have found helpful as they’ve navigated their evolving faith. Drop us a line if you think we’ve missed any.

Books by Category

BibleChildrenChristian TraditionsChurchClimate CrisisCreation SpiritualityDeconstructionDisabilityEnd TimesGodJesusLGBTQIA+Other ReligionsPersonal DevelopmentPoliticsPrayerRaceScienceSexSpiritual AbuseWomen

Bible

How to Read the Bible and Still Be a Christian

Reading the Bible Again For the First Time

Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism

How the Bible Actually Works

Reading While Black

Inspired

What Is the Bible?

Disarming Scripture

The Bible

The Rise and Fall of the Bible

What Do We Do With the Bible?

The Bible Tells Me So

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

De-colonising the Biblical Narrative

A More Christlike Word

Reading the Bible in a Secular Age

What the Bible Really Teaches

The Badly Behaved Bible

First Nations Version

The Inclusive Bible

In the Beginning There Was Darkness

The Jewish Annotated New Testament

Women’s Bible Commentary

Children

The Book of Books

The Spiritual Child

Telling God’s Story

Children’s Spirituality

Born Contemplative

What Is God Like?

Raising White Kids

Parenting for a Better World

Social Justice Parenting

Faithful Families

Christian Traditions

Practice of the Presence

The Seeker and the Monk

Shirt of Flame

Julian of Norwich

The Jesus Prayer

The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything

Open Heart Open Mind

A Generous Orthodoxy

The Naked Anabaptist

Anam Cara

Mystics of the Christian Tradition

Streams of Living Water

Companions of Christ

Revelations of Divine Love

Following the Celtic Way

The Orthodox Church

The Way of St Benedict

The Quaker Way

Hildegard of Bingen

The Interior Castle

The Cloud of Unknowing

The Spiritual Life

The Orthodox Way

The New Anabaptists

Story of a Soul

Eager to Love

The Celtic Way of Prayer

Seeking God: The Way of St.Benedict

Living the Quaker Way

Silence and Honey Cakes

I, Julian

Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul

Landmarks

The Spirituality of Saint Cuthbert

Meister Eckhart

Passions of the Soul

Listening for the Heartbeat of God

Celtic Wheel of the Year

The Sayings of the Desert Fathers

Resurrecting Easter

Church

The Invisible Church

A Churchless Faith

Leaving the Fold

Leaving Church

Searching for Sunday

Forest Church

Life Together

Liquid Church

Church After Christendom

Christianity after Religion

How to Build the Church of the Future

Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others

How to Be a Christian without Going to Church

Exit Interviews

Being Interrupted

Climate Crisis

Hope After Doom

Riders on the Storm

When Time is Short

Saving Us

Refugia Faith

Braiding Sweetgrass

The Bible and Ecology

Laudato Si: Our Care for Our Common Home

The Ministry for The Future

The Social Conquest of Earth

Becoming Animal

A Primer in Ecotheology

The Future We Choose

A New Climate for Christology

This Is Not A Drill

The Climate Book

Doughnut Economics

A Bigger Picture

L is for Lifestyle

Planetwise

Creation Spirituality

Sacred Nature

Creation Spirituality

Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul

Grounded

Christian Animism

Shalom and the Community of Creation

Braiding Sweetgrass

Church of the Wild

Celtic Blessings

Anam Cara

Refugia Faith

Listening for the Heartbeat of God

Wonders of Spiritual Unfoldment

Agrarian Spirit

Celtic Wheel of the Year

When God Was a Bird

The Galapagos Islands

Original Blessing

Native

Creatures of the Same God

Soil and Soul: People Versus Corporate Power

De-colonising the Biblical Narrative

Becoming Rooted

A New Climate for Christology

Poacher’s Pilgrimage

Forest Church

Christ of the Celts

Christ the Heart of Creation

In Search of Stones

The First Nations Version

The Body of God

Deconstruction

Faith after Doubt

The Sin of Certainty

(Un)Certain

Original Sins: A Memoir of Faith, Family, Shame and Addiction

Faith Unraveled

The Shift

Insurrection: To Believe Is Human To Doubt, Divine

God After Deconstruction

You Are Your Own

Learning to Walk in the Dark

Hitchhiking with Drunken Nuns

Cranky, Beautiful Faith

Why Religion?

The Idolatry of God

Leaving Alexandria: A Memoir of Faith and Doubt

In the Shelter: Finding a Home in the World

Religious Refugees

Holy Runaways

Do I Stay Christian?

Finding God in the Waves

Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming

Out of Sorts

Women, Class and Race

Disability

At The Gates

Becoming Friends of Time

The Disabled God

My Body is Not a Prayer Request

With All Your Mind

Arthur’s Call

Autism and the Church: Bible, Theology, and Community

This is My Body

Living Gently in a Violent World

On the Spectrum

In the Beginning There Was Darkness

God Loves the Autistic Mind

Disability: The Inclusive Church

End Times

Her Gates Will Never Be Shut

Revelation For Normal People

Reviving Old Scratch

After

Jesus Unexpected

Unraptured

The Diabolical Trinity

Revelations

Armageddon

The Inescapable Love of God

Reading Revelation Responsibly

Love Wins

Heaven and Hell

Razing Hell

The Evangelical Universalist

Jesus Undefeated

Four Views on the Book of Revelation

That All Shall Be Saved

Revelation and the End Times

God

What We Talk About When We Talk About God

The Divine Dance

Seeking The God Beyond

A History of God

The Uncontrolling Love of God

God is Not a White Man

Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God

How I Found God in Everyone and Everything

The Universal Christ

God: A Human History

God Can’t

Unblaming God

The Cosmic Christ

Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes

The Primacy of Love

The God Who Riots

A More Christlike God

God After Deconstruction

God is a Black Woman

Awakening Desire

The Idolatry of God

Jesus

Revolutionary

The Universal Christ

Freeing Jesus

The Quantum Sayings of Jesus

Jesus Sophia

Jesus Through Pagan Eyes

The Book of Longings

Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes

Christ of the Celts

The Ragamuffin Gospel

Misquoting Jesus

The Gospel of Jesus

Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography

The Wisdom Jesus

The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions

Jesus for the Non-Religious

Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium

For Christ’s Sake

The Shadow of the Galilean

Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time

LGBTQIA+

Queer Redemption

Trans Figured

Transgender. Christian. Human.

Undivided: Coming Out, Becoming Whole

Changing Our Mind

Queer Holiness: The Gift of LGBTQI People to the Church

The Book of Queer Prophets

Black, Gay, British, Christian, Queer

Transforming: The Bible and the Lives of Transgender Christians

Trans Formations

A Letter to My Congregation

The Queer Bible Commentary

UnClobber: Rethinking Our Misuse of the Bible on Homosexuality

Faith Beyond Resentment

The Backwater Sermons

Does Jesus Really Love Me?

Our Witness: The Unheard Stories of LGBT+ Christians

Body Becoming: A Path to Our Liberation

Torn: Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays-vs-Christians Debate

In the Shelter: Finding a Home in the World

Queer Virtue

Beyond Shame

God and the Gay Christian

The Gospel of Inclusion

Dazzling Darkness

Other Religions

Holy Envy

Zen Wisdom for Christians

Jesus Through Pagan Eyes

Learning from Other Religions

Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and Mohammed Cross the Road?

Without Buddha I Could Not be a Christian

Living Buddha, Living Christ

Religion for Atheists

Seek Teachings Everywhere

Christian Atheist

What Christians Can Learn from Other Religions

The Shaken Path

Judaism Without Tribalism

Original Goodness

The Intimate Way of Zen

The Druid Way

I Heard God Laughing

The Essential Rumi

The Sufis

The Muslim Jesus

The Prophet

Personal Development

Self-Compassion

Bodyfulness

Attached

Emotionally Healthy Spirituality

The Compassionate Mind

Dealing with Toxic People

Wild Mind

Wisdom of Your Body

Spiritual Intelligence

An Emotional Education

I Thought It Was Just Me

The Body Keeps the Score

Transcend

Sway

Nothing’s Wrong

The Language of Emotions

From Age-Ing to Sage-Ing

Hagitude

With the End in Mind

Healing the Shame that Binds You

The Path Between Us

Understanding and Treating Chronic Shame

The Wisdom Way of Knowing

Staring At The Sun

Married to Distraction

Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life

Passionate Marriage

The Shadow Work Journal

The Five Invitation

In an Unspoken Voice

F**k It

Becoming Wise

The Four Agreements

Practices for Embodied Living

The Road Back to You

Politics

Jesus and John Wayne

The God Who Riots

Discovering Kenarchy

Jesus for President

The Politics of Waking Up

Politics of Jesus

The Myth of a Christian Nation

Revolution of Values

Prayer

Joy Unspeakable

Divine Echoes

Black liturgies

The Celtic Way of Prayer

Celtic Wheel of the Year

Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community

Practice of the Presence

Silence: A User’s Guide: Vol. 2

Silence: A User’s Guide: Vol. 1

Help, Thanks, Wow

With Open Hands

Finding Your Hidden Treasure

The Jesus Prayer

Wonders of Spiritual Unfoldment

On Prayer

Into the Silent Land

The Celtic Way of Prayer

The Heart of Centering Prayer

Crisis Contemplation

Race

Ghost Ship: Institutional Racism and the Church of England

God is a Black Woman

Black liturgies

God is Not a White Man

Making a Way Out of No Way

Women, Race and Class

Is God Colour-Blind?

When God Became White

Native

Everybody Come Alive

We Need To Talk About Race

How to Fight Racism

The Cross and the Lynching Tree

I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

Joy Unspeakable

This Here Flesh

Womanist Midrash

Our Lives Matter: A Womanist Queer Theology

Me and White Supremacy

White Fragility

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race

Antiracism as Daily Practice

Black, Gay, British, Christian

Deconstructing Whiteness, Empire and Mission

Body Becoming: A Path to Our Liberation

Dear White Christians

Science

Neurotheology

Thank God for Evolution

The Evolution of Adam

The Physics of Angels

Finding God in the Waves

The Awakened Brain

How God Changes Your Brain

Magisteria

Birth of a Dancing Star

Faith and Wisdom in Science

The Hours of the Universe

Curveball

Science and Spiritual Practices

Playing God

God, Time and Stephen Hawking

Minding Creation

How God Becomes Real

Religion as Make-Believe

The Language of God

Sex

Pure

Shameless

Beyond Shame

The Great Sex Rescue

ChurchToo

The Knot

You Are Your Own

Sex, God, and the Conservative Church

Holy Misogyny

Unclean

Feminist Trauma Theologies

Spiritual Abuse

When Religion Hurts You

When Narcissism Comes to Church

Leaving the Fold

Escaping the Maze of Spiritual Abuse

Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse

Unfollow

You Are Your Own

Redeeming Power

(Un)Certain

In the Days of Rain

Exit Interviews

Women

The Dance of the Dissident Daughter

A Year of Biblical Womanhood

Praying Like A Woman

The Making of Biblical Womanhood

Jesus Feminist

Scars Across Humanity

The Dark Womb

Making a Way Out of No Way

Bible vs. Biblical Womanhood

Holy Misogyny

Wild Mercy

Womanist Midrash

Holy Misogyny

Seeking the Risen Christa

Women’s Bible Commentary

Introducing Feminist Images of God

Awakening Desire

The Inclusive Bible

Faith and Feminism

A Theology of Women’s Priesthood

Books by Category

BibleChildrenChristian TraditionsChurchClimate CrisisCreation SpiritualityDeconstructionDisabilityEnd TimesGodJesusLGBTQIA+Other ReligionsPersonal DevelopmentPoliticsPrayerRaceScienceSexSpiritual AbuseWomen
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