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|  | Becoming a Contagious Christian by Bill Hybels, Don Cousins, Mark Mittelberg, Strobel
Willow Creek's proven course on evangelism shows how anyone can share the gospel naturally, confidently, and effectively. AUTHOR: Bill Hybels, Don Cousins, Mark Mittelberg, Strobel
PUBLISHER: Zondervan
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Religion & Spirituality 
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 | Against the Wind by Barbara Rumscheidt, Dorothee Soelle, Martin Rumscheidt
Leading church activist and theologian Dorothee Soelle here recalls a lifetime of learning and activism in church, academy, and politics. Born in 1929 in Cologne, Germany, she was a young girl during the war years and the Holocaust. She studied classical philology and philosophy, then theology and literature. Her 1972 dissertation at the University of Cologne explored connections of literature and theology since the Enlightenment. Among the most widely read theologians of our time, she has pioneered in political, feminist, and liberation theologies. AUTHOR: Barbara Rumscheidt, Dorothee Soelle, Martin Rumscheidt
PUBLISHER: Augsburg Fortress, Publishers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Religion & Spirituality
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 | Out of the Garden by Celina Spiegel, Christina Buchmann
A collection of 28 creative and astute interpretations of characters and events depicted in the Old Testament, contributed by writers as various as Ursula Le Guin, Rebecca Goldstein, Patricia J. Williams, Fay Weldon, Louise Erdrich, Cynthia Ozick, and Barbara Grizzuti Harrison. You will not find a consistent feminist take on the Bible here; the contributers espouse different religious beliefs and their writing styles range from the scholarly to the intensely personal. AUTHOR: Celina Spiegel, Christina Buchmann
PUBLISHER: Ballantine Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Religion & Spirituality
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 | The Curse of Cain by Regina M. Schwartz
Arguing that monotheism, like monogamy, functions to set a people apart in a covenant relationship, Schwartz finds its legacy of otherness is also a legacy of violence. In her reading of the Hebrew text, she teases out provocative connections between monotheism, land and sexuality, and a doctrine of possession, which naturally enough leads to the construction of boundaries, the building of nations, and the conflict that ensues. AUTHOR: Regina M. Schwartz
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Religion & Spirituality
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 | Bible Code by Michael Drosnin
In 1994, three Israeli mathematicians announced the results of an experimental analysis of equidistant letter codes in the earliest Hebrew text of Genesis, the first book of the Torah. By analyzing letters at various set intervals (e.g., every 50th letter, every 65th letter), the scientists determined that words, names, and dates occurred with a frequency that could not be called random. Their confirmation of these hidden messages caused something of a stir at the time because their research was accepted for publication by Statistical Science , a respected, juried scholarly journal. In May, 1997, Michael Drosnin, a former reporter for The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal and best-selling author ( Citizen Hughes ), considered the implications of these startling messages, coupling a popularized account of the original research with assertions that the uncoded messages accurately predict many significant events of contemporary times. The Bible Code promptly zoomed to the top of the bestseller lists and just as promptly sparked a vigorous critical debate. Enthusiasts praise it as proof of scripture's divine authorship, crediting its roots to the numerology that has long been an acceptable part of Jewish textual tradition. Critics, and they include the scientists who performed the original research, point out that, since one must know the encoded information you are looking for before it can be found in the text, the method cannot be used to foretell the future. Although no one has discovered a fatal flaw in the original research, the debate over its significance has taken on new life, fueled in no small part by the appearance of The Bible Code and the interest it appears to hold for the American reading public. AUTHOR: Michael Drosnin
PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster Trade Paperbacks
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Religion & Spirituality
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 | Gods Name in Vain by Carter
Carter, author of CULTURE OF DISBELIEF, discusses ways in which religion and politics collide, citing a division between those who staunchly defend separation of church and state and those who vocally advocate state-sanctioned religion. A New York Times Notable Book for 2000. AUTHOR: Carter
PUBLISHER: Basic Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Religion & Spirituality
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