Adam's Gift
A Memoir of a Pastor's Calling to Defy the Church's Persecution of Lesbians and Gays
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Jimmy Creech
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Jimmy Creech, a United Methodist pastor in North Carolina, was visited one morning in 1984 by Adam, a longtime parishioner whom he liked and respected. Adam said that he was gay, and that he was leaving The United Methodist Church, which had just pronounced that "self-avowed practicing homosexuals" could not be ordained. He would not be part of a community that excluded him. Creech found himself instinctively supporting Adam, telling him that he was sure that God loved and accepted him as he was. Adam's Gift is Creech's inspiring first-person account of how that conversation transformed his life and ministry.
Adam's visit prompted Creech to re-evaluate his belief that homosexuality was a sin, and to research the scriptural basis for the church's position. He determined that the church was mistaken, that scriptural translations and interpretations had been botched and dangerously distorted. As a Christian, Creech came to believe that discriminating against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people was morally wrong. This understanding compelled him to perform same-gender commitment ceremonies, which conflicted with church directives. Creech was tried twice by The United Methodist Church, and, after the second trial, his ordination credentials were revoked. Adam's Gift is a moving story and an important chapter in the unfinished struggle for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender civil and human rights.
The book is published by Duke University Press.
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Part memoir, part political theology
- By Adam Shields on 03-23-17
By: Michael Wear
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God and Ronald Reagan
- A Spiritual Life
- By: Paul Kengor
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 45
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Story5 out of 5 stars 41
Ronald Reagan is hailed today for a presidency that restored optimism to America, engendered years of economic prosperity, and helped bring about the fall of the Soviet Union. Yet until now little attention has been paid to the role Reagan's personal spirituality played in his political career, shaping his ideas, bolstering his resolve, and ultimately compelling him to confront the brutal - and, not coincidentally, atheistic - Soviet empire.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Depth of info
- By Jan Waldrep on 09-01-24
By: Paul Kengor
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Does Jesus Really Love Me?
- A Gay Christian's Pilgrimage in Search of God in America
- By: Jeff Chu
- Narrated by: Jeff Chu
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 55
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Story5 out of 5 stars 51
Does Jesus Really Love Me?: A Gay Christian's Pilgrimage in Search of God in America is part memoir and part investigative analysis that explores the explosive and confusing intersection of faith, politics, and sexuality in Christian America. The quest to find an answer is at the heart of Does Jesus Really Love Me? - a personal journey of belief, an investigation, and a portrait of a faith and a nation at odds by award-winning reporter Jeff Chu.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This Is Where I Found Hope in '20/'21
- By Josh on 01-24-21
By: Jeff Chu
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Do All Lives Matter?
- The Issue We Can No Longer Ignore and Solutions We Long For
- By: Wayne Gordon, John M. Perkins
- Narrated by: Calvin Robinson
- Length: 2 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 31
The belief that all lives matter is at the heart of our founding documents - but we must admit that this conviction has never truly reflected reality in America. Movements such as Black Lives Matter have arisen in response to recent displays of violence and mistreatment, and some of us defensively answer back, "All lives matter". But do they? Really? This audiobook is an exploration of that question.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enlightening
- By karleen on 06-26-20
By: Wayne Gordon, and others
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Christians in the Age of Outrage
- How to Bring Our Best When the World Is at Its Worst
- By: Ed Stetzer
- Narrated by: Wayne Shepherd
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 69
Today there are too many examples of those claiming to follow Christ being caustic, divisive, and irrational, contributing to dismissals of the Christian faith as hypocritical, self-interested, and politically co-opted. What has happened in our society? One short outrageous video, whether it is true or not, can trigger an avalanche of comments on social media. Welcome to the new age of outrage. In this groundbreaking book featuring new survey research of evangelicals and their relationship to the age of outrage, Ed Stetzer offers a constructive way forward.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Balanced Look at an Unbalanced World
- By Tony E. on 11-01-18
By: Ed Stetzer
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Dream with Me
- Race, Love, and the Struggle We Must Win
- By: John M. Perkins, Randy Alcorn - foreword
- Narrated by: Calvin Robinson
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 100
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Story5 out of 5 stars 87
A trailblazer in the civil rights movement, John M. Perkins led voter registration efforts in 1964, worked for school desegregation in 1967, and was jailed and tortured in 1970. He is no less zealous today as he sees a new generation of freedom fighters battling the same issues and the same systems he has spent his life working to correct.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Thoughts from a Christian elder
- By Adam Shields on 03-02-17
By: John M. Perkins, and others
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Building a Bridge
- How the Catholic Church and the LGBT Community Can Enter into a Relationship of Respect, Compassion, and Sensitivity
- By: James Martin
- Narrated by: James Martin
- Length: 2 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 185
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 165
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 163
On the day after the Orlando nightclub shooting, James Martin SJ posted a video on Facebook in which he called for solidarity with our LGBT brothers and sisters. "The largest mass shooting in US history took place at a gay club, and the LGBT community has been profoundly affected," he began. He then implored his fellow Catholics - and people everywhere - to "stand not only with the people of Orlando but also with their LGBT brothers and sisters."
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5 out of 5 stars
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With Respect, Compassion, and Sensitivity
- By Cynthia on 09-04-17
By: James Martin
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America's Original Sin
- Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
- By: Jim Wallis
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 168
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 153
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 152
America's problem with race has deep roots, with the country's foundation tied to the near extermination of one race of people and the enslavement of another. Racism is truly our nation's original sin. "It's time we right this unacceptable wrong", says best-selling author and leading Christian activist Jim Wallis. Fifty years ago, Wallis was driven away from his faith by a white church that considered dealing with racism to be taboo.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Important book, but narrator was an amateur
- By RevReader on 06-01-18
By: Jim Wallis
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Reconstructing the Gospel
- Finding Freedom from Slaveholder Religion
- By: Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
- Narrated by: Lloyd James
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 156
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 138
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 136
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove grew up in the Bible Belt in the American South as a faithful church-going Christian. But he gradually came to realize that the gospel his Christianity proclaimed was not good news for everybody. The same Christianity that sang, "Amazing grace, how sweet the sound" also perpetuated racial injustice and white supremacy in the name of Jesus. His Christianity, he discovered, was the religion of the slaveholder. Just as Reconstruction after the Civil War worked to repair a desperately broken society, compromised Christianity requires a spiritual reconstruction.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing.
- By Elgin Bailey on 04-01-18
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My Life, My Love, My Legacy
- By: Coretta Scott King, Barbara Reynolds
- Narrated by: January LaVoy, Phylicia Rashad
- Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 243
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 224
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 225
The life story of Coretta Scott King - wife of Martin Luther King Jr., founder of the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, and singular 20th-century American civil rights activist - as told fully for the first time, toward the end of her life, to one of her closest friends. Born in 1927 to daringly enterprising Black parents in the Deep South, Coretta Scott had always felt called to a special purpose.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Inspirational memoir
- By Jean on 01-30-17
By: Coretta Scott King, and others
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Forming Intentional Disciples
- The Path to Knowing and Following Jesus
- By: Sherry A. Weddell
- Narrated by: Nan McNamara
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 78
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Story5 out of 5 stars 71
Learn about the five thresholds of postmodern conversion; how to open a conversation about faith and belief; how to ask thought-provoking questions and establish an atmosphere of trust, when to tell the great story of Jesus; how to help someone respond to God's call to intentional discipleship; and much more. And be prepared for conversion because when life at the parish level changes, the life of the whole Church will change.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Valuable resource, required reading
- By Andrew Havens on 01-03-19
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One Blood
- Parting Words to the Church on Race
- By: John M. Perkins, Karen Waddles
- Narrated by: Calvin Robinson
- Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 208
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 174
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Story5 out of 5 stars 174
We are living in historic times. Not since the Civil Rights Movement of the '60s has our country been as vigorously engaged in the reconciliation conversation. There is a great opportunity right now for culture to change, to be a more perfect union. However, it cannot be done without the church, because the faith of the people is more powerful than any law government can enact.
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5 out of 5 stars
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John Perkins' GRACIOUS MASTERPIECE.
- By Thom Hazelip on 05-08-18
By: John M. Perkins, and others
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Bonhoeffer
- Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
- By: Eric Metaxas, Timothy Keller
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner, Eric Metaxas
- Length: 23 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2,317
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,079
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2,078
As Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seduced a nation, bullied a continent, and attempted to exterminate the Jews of Europe, a small number of dissidents and saboteurs worked to dismantle the Third Reich from the inside. One of these was Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pastor and author. In this New York Times bestselling biography, Eric Metaxas takes both strands of Bonhoeffer's life—the theologian and the spy—and draws them together to tell a searing story of incredible moral courage in the face of monstrous evil.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mandatory Reading
- By cmb on 03-10-20
By: Eric Metaxas, and others
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Amish Grace
- How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy
- By: Donald B. Kraybill Ph. D., Steven M. Nolt Ph. D., David L. Weaver-Zercher Ph. D.
- Narrated by: Richard Powers
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 269
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 160
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Story4 out of 5 stars 160
The remarkable response of the Amish Community to the horrific shooting of 10 schoolgirls at Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania in October 2006 stunned the larger world. Amish Grace tells the incredible story of this community's reaction to the senseless shooting and explores its profoundly countercultural practice of forgiveness.
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1 out of 5 stars
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I wish I could un-hear this book
- By Sara on 01-29-14
By: Donald B. Kraybill Ph. D., and others
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Billy Graham
- The Man I Knew
- By: Greg Laurie, Marshall Terrill
- Narrated by: Dan John Miller
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 205
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 187
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Story5 out of 5 stars 186
Pastor and bestselling author Greg Laurie was one of those fortunate few blessed with an insider’s view of Billy Graham’s world for more than two decades. With the same painstaking research and eye for detail that distinguishes his previous biographies, Steve McQueen: Salvation of an American Icon and Johnny Cash: The Redemption of an American Icon, Laurie now turns to the life of his beloved mentor, offering the intimate perspective of a disciple and friend.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very well done
- By Beverly Heidrick Baker on 05-06-21
By: Greg Laurie, and others
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Unified
- How Our Unlikely Friendship Gives Us Hope for a Divided Country
- By: Tim Scott, Trey Gowdy
- Narrated by: J D Jackson, John McLain
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 268
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 237
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Story5 out of 5 stars 237
Tim Scott, an African-American US senator, and Trey Gowdy, a white US congressman, won’t allow racial lines to divide them. They work together, eat meals together, campaign together, and make decisions together. Yet in the fall of 2010 - as two brand-new members of the US House of Representatives - they did not even know each other. Their story as politicians and friends began the moment they met and is a model for others seeking true reconciliation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Inspirational true story!
- By Wayne on 08-05-19
By: Tim Scott, and others