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The Whitewashing of Christianity
- A Hidden Past, a Hurtful Present, and a Hopeful Future
- By: Jerome Gay
- Narrated by: Donald Gadson Jr.
- Length: 8 hrs
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The Whitewashing of Christianity is informative, insightful, and inspirational, telling a history that's often hidden, ignored, revised, or unknown. Confrontational, but not combative, it details how the American church has helped create and maintain the false narrative that Christianity is a White man's religion and how it has presented almost every person in Scripture and most of Africa's theologians and martyrs as White men and women.
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Great story
- By Pastor Paige on 11-16-21
- The Whitewashing of Christianity
- A Hidden Past, a Hurtful Present, and a Hopeful Future
- By: Jerome Gay
- Narrated by: Donald Gadson Jr.
Some good stuff, but too Evangelical
Reviewed: 02-07-24
I agree with his goals and the problems he discusses. The problem is that he still believes is the white, conservative Evangelical views of Biblical innerancy and univocality. This waters down the messages in the Bible and is not helpful in any way for convincing people that they are wrong. You cannot fight proof texts with proof texts.
As far as the performance goes, it was mostly good, but included several mispronunciations. Off the top of my head, he frequently pronounces "vehemently" as "va-hee-mently" and he pronounced the name of the ancient Greek historian Herodotus as "Hair-oh-doh-too." But this isn't a big issue.
Overall, he has some good stuff to say, but he's still too Evangelical and American.
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How to Fight Racism
- Courageous Christianity and the Journey Toward Racial Justice
- By: Jemar Tisby
- Narrated by: Jemar Tisby
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
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How do we effectively confront racial injustice? We need to move beyond talking about racism and start equipping ourselves to fight against it. In this follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Color of Compromise, Jemar Tisby offers an array of actionable items to confront racism. How to Fight Racism introduces a simple framework—the A.R.C. Of Racial Justice—that teaches listeners to consistently interrogate their own actions and maintain a consistent posture of anti-racist behavior.
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Two steps forward, five steps back
- By Gregg Davidson on 05-07-21
- How to Fight Racism
- Courageous Christianity and the Journey Toward Racial Justice
- By: Jemar Tisby
- Narrated by: Jemar Tisby
The Bare Minimum
Reviewed: 02-02-24
This might be a good start for people who are just beginning to learn about systemic racism in America, but it shouldn't be the end. The solutions that Tisby recommends feel like the bare minimum that people should do, and also encourages people with white savior complexes. I'd recommend Subversive Witness by Dominique DuBois Gilliard as an alternative to this book with much better solutions to the deeper problems.
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Ten Things Your Minister Wants to Tell You (But Can't, Because He Needs the Job)
- By: Oliver Thomas
- Narrated by: Oliver Thomas
- Length: 2 hrs and 37 mins
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"How did it all begin?" "What happens when we die?" These are just two of the questions Reverend Oliver "Buzz" Thomas hears centrist Christians asking as he travels across the United States, and he knows that their voices are not being heard. They're people of faith, not of politics, and they want more from their religion than a voter's guide.
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hugghess
- By Linda Goodwin on 04-22-07
Good, but too short
Reviewed: 08-31-22
I wish Oliver Thomas would release a book for each of the ten points he makes in this book. I doubt there would be so many negative reviews from people calling this book "heresy" if those same people actually understood where Thomas was coming from.
Overall, I would recommend this book as a good starting point for people who have only ever known a conservative Fundamentalist version of Christianity. Afterwards, look up Peter Enns and Rachel Held Evans.
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Attached
- The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love
- By: Amir Levine, Rachel Heller
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
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We already rely on science to tell us what to eat, when to exercise, and how long to sleep. Why not use science to help us improve our relationships? In this revolutionary book, psychiatrist and neuroscientist Dr. Amir Levine and Rachel Heller scientifically explain why some people seem to navigate relationships effortlessly, while others struggle.
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Good book - just not a good one for Audible
- By Mark on 02-01-20
- Attached
- The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love
- By: Amir Levine, Rachel Heller
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
It would be a four if it was a physical book
Reviewed: 03-14-22
I took one star away for the charts and quizzes that others have mentioned in their reviews and another star for the self help bs language. Pushing past those two issues, the psychology in this book was very helpful for me. I'll be looking for other books on attachment theory in adults that go more into the science and avoid the self help bs, but this is a great start.
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Exodus for Normal People: A Guide to the Story-and History-of the Second Book of the Bible
- The Bible for Normal People, Book 1
- By: Peter Enns
- Narrated by: Peter Enns
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Behind the scenes of movies like The Ten Commandments, The Prince of Egypt, or Exodus: Gods and Kings is a complicated, and at times, messy biblical story. In this short guide to the book of Exodus, Biblical scholar Peter Enns doesn't just break down the story for the average person to understand but takes us behind the story - to the history and traditions that led us to the story as we have it today. By asking the important questions, and taking us along Moses's and the Israelite journey, Enns brings the best in biblical scholarship to us everyday people.
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Easy to follow
- By Nora S on 01-04-25
- Exodus for Normal People: A Guide to the Story-and History-of the Second Book of the Bible
- The Bible for Normal People, Book 1
- By: Peter Enns
- Narrated by: Peter Enns
Good Stuff From Peter Enns, As Always
Reviewed: 02-21-22
My only critique is that I wish this book had gone more in depth than it did. Pete writes books for "normal" people and for "abnormal" people. I wish he would also write books for those of us inbetween who aren't smart enough to go through all the education to become "abnormal" but are still nerdy enough to not be "normal." Otherwise, I'd say this is a really good book and I would recommend it.
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Changing Our Mind
- Definitive Edition of the Landmark Call for Inclusion of LGBT Christians with Response to Critics
- By: David P. Gushee
- Narrated by: David P. Gushee
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
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Changing Our Mind has helped thousands of families and congregations carefully and compassionately rethink traditional religious teachings about full LGBTQ inclusion. With growing scientific evidence, our wider society has taken big steps, but too many religious families and communities have not kept up. Dr. David Gushee offers a powerful, inspiring message of hope and healing by helping Christians to return to Bible study, prayer, and reflection in a way that creates a vision for a more inclusive church.
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So grateful for this book
- By Sheryl Murphy on 12-08-22
- Changing Our Mind
- Definitive Edition of the Landmark Call for Inclusion of LGBT Christians with Response to Critics
- By: David P. Gushee
- Narrated by: David P. Gushee
Great Starting Point
Reviewed: 02-17-22
This book in combination with Matthew Vines' God and the Gay Christian seem to me like a great starting point for Christians who want to be affirming of LGBTQ+ people but can't simply put the Bible aside. There's a lot more that needs to be done after reading these books, including repenting for our past roles in harming LGBTQ+ people, but they're a good first step.
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Relationship Goals
- How to Win at Dating, Marriage, and Sex
- By: Michael Todd
- Narrated by: Ameen Gaines
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
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Realer than the most real conversation you’ve ever heard on the topic, Michael Todd’s honest, heartfelt, and powerful teaching on relationships has already impacted millions of people in all seasons of life around the world. Now, in Relationship Goals, Michael tells his own story of heartache and healing, unpacks explosive truths from God’s word, and tells it to you straight to help you win at relationships in every part of your life.
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WOW!!!
- By Sugar Sweet on 04-28-20
- Relationship Goals
- How to Win at Dating, Marriage, and Sex
- By: Michael Todd
- Narrated by: Ameen Gaines
Just watch the YouTube series
Reviewed: 09-14-21
He only repeats what he said in the youtube series. He doesn't elaborate at all. Not worth the money
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Shameless
- A Sexual Reformation
- By: Nadia Bolz-Weber
- Narrated by: Nadia Bolz-Weber
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
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Raw, intimate, and timely, Bolz-Weber’s latest book offers a full-blown overhaul of our harmful and antiquated ideas about sex, gender, and our bodies. This is a journey of holy resistance. Along the way, as antidotes to shame, heresy, and all-too-familiar injustice, Bolz-Weber shares stories, poetry, and scripture, cultivating resilient hope and audacious love rooted in good news that is “powerful enough, transgressive enough, and beautiful enough to heal not only the ones who have been hurt but also those who have done the hurting.”
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Disappointing
- By mountainfrog on 02-07-19
- Shameless
- A Sexual Reformation
- By: Nadia Bolz-Weber
- Narrated by: Nadia Bolz-Weber
Not what I was hoping for
Reviewed: 09-02-21
Sex means something. It isn't "morally neutral" as Nadia Bolz-Weber claims. At the same time, the purity culture that dominated, and continues to dominate,, conservative Christianity has been extremely damaging to many people, including me. I bought this book after hearing Nadia on the podcast The Bible For Normal People. She clearly loves the Bible, so I was hoping for Biblical insight to how I could start to heal. Instead, she states her opinions on sex, without any Biblical, or Spirit based foundations while mixing in random Bible references. In the end, I used my monthly Audible credit only to end up just as lost as I was before listening to this book. Hopefully the book I get next month will be better.
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Jesus and John Wayne
- How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
- By: Kristin Kobes du Mez
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
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How did a libertine who lacks even the most basic knowledge of the Christian faith win 81 percent of the white evangelical vote in 2016? And why have white evangelicals become a presidential reprobate's staunchest supporters? Jesus and John Wayne is a sweeping account of the last 75 years of white evangelicalism, showing how American evangelicals have worked for decades to replace the Jesus of the Gospels with an idol of rugged masculinity and Christian nationalism.
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Like reading a history of my evangelical life
- By Renee on 10-15-20
- Jesus and John Wayne
- How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
- By: Kristin Kobes du Mez
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
I'm liberal, and even I think this is biased.
Reviewed: 06-24-21
That being said, it's an important topic that we need to discuss, and there is a degree of truth to this book. However, this truth is only a partial truth. Next, I will be listening to Immoral Majority by Ben Howe. His book is on the same topic, but from his perspective as a tea party conservative evangelical. I expect it to be just as biased, if not more, and just as full of partial truths. I'm hoping that I'll be able to piece together all of the partial truths to find the whole truth.
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Winning the War in Your Mind
- Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
- By: Craig Groeschel
- Narrated by: Craig Groeschel
- Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins
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We've all tried to think our way out of bad habits and unhealthy thought patterns, only to find ourselves stuck with an out-of-control mind and off-track daily life. Pastor and New York Times best-selling author Craig Groeschel understands deeply this daily battle against self-doubt and negative thinking, and in this powerful new book, he reveals the strategies he's discovered to change your mind and your life for the long-term.
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Thought I had ‘heard this before’
- By Rachel on 03-03-21
- Winning the War in Your Mind
- Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
- By: Craig Groeschel
- Narrated by: Craig Groeschel
I was hoping for more Biblical examples
Reviewed: 05-07-21
I was hoping for more Biblical examples and interpretations than self help. If self help books worked, there wouldn't be so many of them. I gave it a three because the part about the "God box" was good, despite the rest of the book.
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