Books

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• Zealot, The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, Reza Aslan (Hardcover)
• How God Became Jesus: The Real Origins of Belief in Jesus' Divine Nature, Michael Bird, Craig Evans, Simon Gathercole, Charles Hill, Chris Tilling (Paperback)
• Unapologetic: Why, Despite Everything, Christianity Can Still Make Surprising Emotional Sense, Francis Spufford (Hardcover)
• Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism, Karima Bennoune (Hardcover)

Zealot, The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth - New York Times bestseller Zealot yields a fresh perspective on one of the greatest stories ever told even as it affirms the radical and transformative nature of Jesus of Nazareth's life and mission. The result is a thought-provoking, elegantly written biography with the pulse of a fast-paced novel: a singularly brilliant portrait of a man, a time, and a birth of a religion.   

"This tough-minded, deeply political book does full justice to the real Jesus, and honors him in the process." - San Francisco Chronicle

"Fascinatingly and convincingly drawn... Alsan may come as close as one can to respecting those who revere Jesus as the peace-loving, turn-the-other-cheek, true son of God depicted in modern Christianity, even as he knocks down that image." - The Seattle Times

How God Became Jesus: The Real Origins of Belief in Jesus' Divine Nature - A response to Bart Erhman's book, How Jesus Become God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galiliee, How God Became Jesus features the work of five internationally recognized biblical scholars. While subjecting his claims to critical scrutiny, they offer a better, historically informed account of why the Galilian preacher from Nazareth came to be haled as "the Lord Jesus Christ." They contend the exalted place of Jesus in belief and worship is evident in the earliest Christian sources, shortly following his death, and was not simply the invention of the church centuries later. 

"Anyone who wants a reliable historical account of how early Christians came to see Jesus as God should read this book." - Richard Bauckham, Emeritus Professor of New Testament, University of St. Andrews UK

Unapologetic: Why, Despite Everything, Christianity Can Still Make Surprising Emotional Sense - Fans of C.S. Lewis, N.T. Wright, Mary Karr, Rob Bell, and James Martin will appreciate Spufford's crisp, lively, and abashedly defiant thesis. Unapologetic is a book for believers who are fed up with being patronized, for non-believers curious about how faith can possibly work in the twenty-first century, and for anyone who feels there is something in definably wrong, literalistic, anti-imaginative and intolerant about the way the atheist case is now being made. 

"With unrelenting passion and honesty throughout, this book successfully accomplishes what it sets out to achieve - namely, making the case for the intelligibility and dignity of the Christian faith." - Christopher McConnell, Booklist

Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism - In Senegal, wheelchair-bound Aissatou Cisse produced a comic book to illustrate the injustices faced by disabled women and girls...In Afghanistan, Young Women for Change took to the streets of Kabul to denounce sexual harassment, undeterred by threats. In Minneapolis, Abdirizak Bihi organized a Ramadan basketball tournament among Somali refugees to counter the influence of Al Shabaab... But this global community of writers, artists, doctors, musicians, lawyers, educators, and activists of Muslim heritage remains largely invisible, lost amid the heated coverage of Islamist terror attacks on one side and abuses perpetrated against suspected terrorists on the other. 

A veteran of twenty years of human rights research and activism, Karima Bennoune draws on extensive fieldwork and interviews to illuminate the inspiring stories of those who represent one of the best hopes for ending fundamentalist oppression worldwide. 

"Compelling, meticulously researched. Should be required reading." - Washington Post "

"Fascinating and often heartbreaking." - Los Angeles Times

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