Controversial Books for bpc

This page shows the most "controversial" books in this library, as measured by the highest standard deviation of members' star ratings.

Standard Deviation Average Rating Your Rating Title
1.805 3.24 The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ by Joseph Smith
1.449 3.82 The Koran by al-Qur'an
1.262 4.24 Jesus Calling: Enjoying Peace in His Presence by Sarah Young
1.243 3.48 Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived by Rob Bell
1.237 3.52 Jesus Before Christianity by Albert Nolan
1.237 3.26 Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson
1.213 3.68 How to Know God: The Soul's Journey into the Mystery of Mysteries by Deepak Chopra
1.211 3.36 Pilate: The Biography of an Invented Man by Ann Wroe
1.205 3.76 The Art of Pilgrimage: The Seeker's Guide to Making Travel Sacred by Phil Cousineau
1.204 3.73 Daily Study Bible: The Letter to the Romans by William Barclay
1.204 3.62 Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics by Reinhold Niebuhr
1.194 3.64 Prayers For Children (A Little Golden Book) [conflicting covers] by Eloise Wilkin
1.194 4.13 A is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara
1.19 3.77 Once Upon a Potty -- Boy by Alona Frankel
1.175 3.71 Can You Drink the Cup? by Henri J. M. Nouwen
1.151 3.72 On the Day You Were Born by Debra Frasier
1.149 3.52 Chicken Soup for the Soul: 101 Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit by Jack Canfield
1.139 4.14 Old Turtle by Douglas Wood
1.139 3.91 The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle
1.136 3.29 MoveOn's 50 Ways to Love Your Country: How to Find Your Political Voice and Become a Catalyst for Change by MoveOn.org
1.135 3.62 A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith by Brian D. McLaren
1.12 3.73 In His Steps by Charles M. Sheldon
1.117 3.66 The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace by M. Scott Peck
1.115 3.47 Black Ice by Lorene Cary
1.1 4.01 The Legend of the Candy Cane: The Inspirational Story of Our Favorite Christmas Candy by Lori Walburg
1.091 3.92 Living More with Less by Doris Janzen Longacre
1.084 3.66 Daily Study Bible: The Gospel of John, Volume 1, Chapters 1-7 by William Barclay
1.082 3.75 Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson
1.079 3.95 Peculiar Treasures: A Biblical Who's Who by Frederick Buechner
1.071 3.72 A River Ran Wild: An Environmental History by Lynne Cherry
1.07 3.75 On Noah's Ark by Jan Brett
1.065 3.73 Two From Galilee: The Story Of Mary And Joseph by Marjorie Holmes
1.065 3.27 Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine by Harold Bloom
1.064 4.01 Noah's Ark by Peter Spier
1.06 4.12 Luke for Everyone by Tom Wright
1.059 3.84 A New Christianity for a New World: Why Traditional Faith is Dying & How a New Faith is Being Born by John Shelby Spong
1.058 3.74 What We Talk About When We Talk About God by Rob Bell
1.056 3.85 The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories by William J. Bennett
1.054 4 The Beginner's Bible: Timeless Children's Stories by Karyn Henley
1.043 3.88 The Last Battle by C. S. Lewis
1.039 4.13 Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals by Shane Claiborne
1.037 3.86 Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism: A Bishop Rethinks the Meaning of Scripture by John Shelby Spong
1.036 4.09 Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom by John O'Donohue
1.033 3.93 Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time: The Historical Jesus and the Heart of Contemporary Faith by Marcus J. Borg
1.03 4.13 The New Jerusalem Bible by Henry Wansbrough
1.028 4 The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence
1.026 3.89 Why Christianity Must Change or Die: A Bishop Speaks to Believers in Exile: A New Reformation of the Church's Faith and Practice by John Shelby Spong
1.022 3.8 Everyday Life in Bible Times by James B. Pritchard
1.018 4.02 Earth Prayers From around the World: 365 Prayers, Poems, and Invocations for Honoring the Earth by Elizabeth Roberts
1.017 3.83 Then Sings My Soul: 150 of the World's Greatest Hymn Stories by Robert J. Morgan
1.015 3.2 Imperfect Birds by Anne Lamott
1.013 3.38 The Oxford Illustrated History of Christianity by John McManners
1.012 3.87 White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
1.009 3.63 Lost Scriptures: Books that Did Not Make It into the New Testament by Bart D. Ehrman
1.006 4.01 The Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version (RSV) by Thomas Nelson & Sons
0.998 4.04 Beatrice's Goat by Page McBrier
0.993 3.95 My Little Golden Book About God by Jane Werner Watson
0.992 4.15 Dying Well by Ira Byock MD
0.991 3.42 101 Hymn Stories by Kenneth W. Osbeck
0.989 3.92 Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together by Ron Hall
0.988 3.84 Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith by Henri J. M. Nouwen
0.985 4.19 Engaging the Powers: Discernment and Resistance in a World of Domination by Walter Wink
0.984 3.99 Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
0.984 4.12 Telling The Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy and Fairy Tale by Frederick Buechner
0.981 3.5 A 2nd Helping of Chicken Soup for the Soul: 101 More Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit by Jack Canfield
0.98 4.38 The Message of the Qur'an (Asad, 1980) by Muhammad Asad
0.98 4.27 Tear Soup: A Recipe for Healing After Loss by Pat Schwiebert
0.976 4.02 The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
0.976 3.89 The Five Gospels: The Search for the Authentic Words of Jesus by Robert W. Funk
0.975 4.05 Blood Brothers by Elias Chacour
0.974 3.83 No More Words : A Journal of My Mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh by Reeve Lindbergh
0.971 4.07 The Children's Illustrated Bible by Selina Hastings
0.97 3.63 The Highly Selective Thesaurus for the Extraordinarily Literate by Eugene H. Ehrlich
0.967 4.43 The Daily Bible: New International Version: With Devotional Insights to Guide You Through God's Word by F. LaGard Smith
0.965 3.84 The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant by John Dominic Crossan
0.965 3.67 The Gospel of Mary of Magdala: Jesus and the First Woman Apostle by Karen L. King
0.964 4.01 Streams of Living Water: Celebrating the Great Traditions of Christian Faith by Richard J. Foster
0.963 3.91 Evil and the Justice of God by N. T. Wright
0.961 4.03 Tramp for the Lord by Corrie Ten Boom
0.958 3.94 When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Harold S. Kushner
0.958 4.35 The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language by Eugene H. Peterson
0.957 3.86 The Horse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis
0.957 3.76 Run with the Horses: The Quest for Life at Its Best by Eugene H. Peterson
0.957 3.38 Reader's Digest Atlas of the Bible by Editors of Readers Digest
0.956 3.58 The Alto Wore Tweed by Mark Schweizer
0.956 3.95 Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life by C. S. Lewis
0.954 4.03 The Heart of Christianity: Rediscovering a Life of Faith by Marcus J. Borg
0.949 4.07 Soul Survivor: How Thirteen Unlikely Mentors Helped My Faith Survive the Church by Philip Yancey
0.949 3.96 Paul for Everyone: The Prison Letters : Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, Philemon (For Everyone) by Tom Wright
0.945 4.03 The Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris
0.944 4.1 A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society by Eugene H. Peterson
0.942 3.94 God Has a Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Time by Desmond Tutu
0.941 4.22 Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
0.941 4.06 Appalachia: The Voices of Sleeping Birds by Cynthia Rylant
0.939 4.21 Who is Coming to Our House? by Joseph Slate
0.938 3.92 The Magician's Nephew by C. S. Lewis
0.938 4.15 The New Jerome Biblical Commentary by Joseph A. Fitzmyer
0.937 4.24 More Than Anything Else by Marie Bradby
0.936 3.96 Moses the Kitten by James Herriot
0.934 4.1 Soul Feast: An Invitation to the Christian Spiritual Life by Marjorie J. Thompson
0.933 3.92 The Quest of the Historical Jesus by Albert Schweitzer
0.931 4.06 Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories by Dr. Seuss
0.931 3.78 Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott
0.929 4.09 Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation by Parker J. Palmer
0.929 4.21 The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming by Henri J. M. Nouwen
0.928 4.1 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
0.927 4.03 A Man Called Peter: The Story of Peter Marshall by Catherine Marshall
0.927 4.22 The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery by Ian Morgan Cron
0.924 3.7 God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It by Jim Wallis
0.922 3.88 The Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis
0.921 3.71 Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis by Jimmy Carter
0.921 4.15 Now and Then by Frederick Buechner
0.92 4.09 Alligators All Around: An Alphabet by Maurice Sendak
0.917 4.03 Something About Hensley's by Patricia Polacco
0.916 4.15 Just a Dream by Chris Van Allsburg
0.916 3.62 The Reformation by Owen Chadwick
0.916 4.03 The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully by Joan Chittister
0.911 4.26 Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
0.91 4.17 The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
0.91 3.86 Prince Caspian by C. S. Lewis
0.91 4.14 We're Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen
0.906 4.03 The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis
0.906 4.03 She Who Is by Elizabeth A. Johnson
0.905 3.76 The Great Emergence: How Christianity Is Changing and Why by Phyllis Tickle
0.9 4.03 Leaving church by Barbara Brown Taylor
0.895 4.14 Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth by Richard J. Foster
0.894 4.1 The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion to a More Authentic Contemporary Faith by Marcus J. Borg
0.893 3.76 The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels by Thomas Cahill
0.89 4.16 Peter's Chair by Ezra Jack Keats
0.89 3.95 Martin Luther : Selections From His Writings by Martin Luther
0.888 4.18 Horton Hears a Who! by Dr. Seuss
0.888 4.11 Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
0.888 4.23 The Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations by Jonathan Sacks
0.885 3.93 An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison
0.885 3.84 Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving
0.883 4.21 Holman Bible Atlas: A Complete Guide to the Expansive Geography of Biblical History (Broadman & Holman Reference) by Thomas V. Brisco
0.883 4.06 The Rule of Benedict: Insights for the Ages (Crossroad Spiritual Legacy Series) by Joan Chittister
0.883 4.05 The Son of Laughter by Frederick Buechner
0.882 3.8 Morrie: In His Own Words by Morrie Schwartz
0.88 3.75 God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible by Adam Nicolson
0.879 4.02 Have a Little Faith: A True Story by Mitch Albom
0.878 4.1 Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense by N. T. Wright
0.877 3.99 Race Matters by Cornel West
0.872 3.71 Three from Galilee: The Young Man from Nazareth by Marjorie Holmes
0.87 4.11 The Way of the Heart by Henri J. M. Nouwen
0.87 3.81 Getting in the Gap: Making Conscious Contact with God Through Meditation (Book with CD) by Wayne Dyer
0.869 4.32 Oh, the Places You'll Go! by Dr. Seuss
0.866 4.21 The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis
0.865 4.01 Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World by Henri J. M. Nouwen
0.859 3.98 The Joyful Christian: 127 Readings from C. S. Lewis by C. S. Lewis
0.859 4.05 Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years by Sarah L. Delany
0.858 4.08 The Story of the Other Wise Man by Henry Van Dyke
0.855 3.85 Pagans and Christians by Robin Lane Fox
0.854 4.25 Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett
0.853 3.87 Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life by Karen Armstrong
0.851 4.12 The Alphabet of Grace by Frederick Buechner
0.85 3.85 The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours by Marian Wright Edelman
0.849 4.26 Kierkegaard's Attack Upon "Christendom" 1854-1855 by Søren Kierkegaard
0.848 4.34 How the Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr. Seuss
0.846 4.03 Genesis: Interpretation: A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching by Walter Brueggemann
0.843 4.21 Rosa by Nikki Giovanni
0.841 4.2 The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical by Shane Claiborne
0.84 4.35 What You Know First by Patricia MacLachlan
0.838 4.07 Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner by Frederick Buechner
0.838 3.79 Creation and Fall Temptation: Two Biblical Studies by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
0.836 4.09 Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold
0.835 4.19 When a Pet Dies (First Experiences) by Fred Rogers
0.83 3.88 Luther: Man Between God and the Devil by Heiko A. Oberman
0.83 4.38 The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For, and Believe by Richard Rohr
0.827 4.03 The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus by Amy-Jill Levine
0.826 3.65 Islam: A Short History by Karen Armstrong
0.825 4.07 Matthew for Everyone: Chapters 1-15 by Tom Wright
0.824 3.74 Harper's Bible Dictionary by Paul J. Achtemeier
0.823 3.85 The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions by Marcus J. Borg
0.821 3.83 Healing and the Mind by Bill Moyers
0.82 3.72 Adam, Eve, and the Serpent: Sex and Politics in Early Christianity by Elaine Pagels
0.819 4.41 The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom
0.818 4.37 The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
0.817 4.08 Mark for Everyone by Tom Wright
0.817 4.11 The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart by Peter J. Gomes
0.816 3.83 Mommies Say Shhh by Patricia Polacco
0.815 3.89 Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer by C. S. Lewis
0.814 4.21 New Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton
0.809 4.35 The Sneetches and Other Stories by Dr. Seuss
0.806 4.29 The Politics of Jesus by John Howard Yoder
0.806 4.12 Reaching Out Without Dumbing Down by Marva J. Dawn
0.801 4.11 Two Homes by Claire Masurel
0.801 4.18 How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
0.794 4.14 Telling Secrets by Frederick Buechner
0.793 4.48 You Are Special by Max Lucado
0.79 3.73 The World's Wisdom: Sacred Texts of the World's Religions by Philip Novak
0.787 4.24 Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying by Maggie Callanan
0.787 4.2 The Prophetic Imagination by Walter Brueggemann
0.786 3.96 The Tenor Wore Tapshoes by Mark Schweizer
0.785 4.43 Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony by Richard J. Bauckham
0.78 4.29 Only One Woof by James Herriot
0.775 3.91 The Big Book for Peace by Ann Durell
0.773 4.34 Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin
0.771 4.53 Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch by Eileen Spinelli
0.771 4.08 Where Is God When It Hurts? by Philip Yancey
0.77 4.33 In My Father's House: The Years Before "The Hiding Place" by Corrie Ten Boom
0.765 3.8 Toxic Charity: How Churches and Charities Hurt Those They Help, And How to Reverse It by Robert D. Lupton
0.765 4.39 Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning by Jason Reynolds
0.763 4 How Jesus Became God by Bart D. Ehrman
0.757 3.95 From Beginning to End: The Rituals of our Lives by Robert Fulghum
0.757 4.31 Jesus through Middle Eastern Eyes by Kenneth E. Bailey
0.753 4.21 The Sacred Journey: A Memoir of Early Days by Frederick Buechner
0.749 4.03 The First Urban Christians: The Social World of the Apostle Paul by Wayne A. Meeks
0.747 4 The Oxford Book of Prayer by George Appleton
0.747 4.42 How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now by James L. Kugel
0.747 4.04 John Calvin: A Heart for Devotion, Doctrine, Doxology by Burk Parsons
0.746 4.07 Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians by Tom Wright
0.746 4.51 Calvins Commentaries (22 Volume Set) by John Calvin
0.743 4.2 Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes
0.735 4.29 Badger's Parting Gifts by Susan Varley
0.735 4.11 Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith by Kathleen Norris
0.722 3.88 The Marvelous Mustard Seed by Amy-Jill Levine
0.721 3.9 Islamic Imperialism: A History by Efraim Karsh
0.718 4.23 Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation by Jonathan Kozol
0.71 4.4 Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt by Deborah Hopkinson
0.708 4.36 Walking on Water : Reflections on faith and art by Madeleine L'Engle
0.704 4.15 Hebrews for Everyone (The New Testament for Everyone) by Tom Wright
0.696 4.45 The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James H. Cone
0.694 4.17 The Patchwork Path: A Quilt Map to Freedom by Bettye Stroud
0.692 4.6 The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church by F. L. Cross
0.691 4.47 So you want to talk about race by Ijeoma Oluo
0.687 4.06 Why Religion?: A Personal Story by Elaine Pagels
0.68 4.22 Home By Another Way by Barbara Brown Taylor
0.677 4 The Story of My Father: A Memoir by Sue Miller
0.661 4.51 Henry's Freedom Box by Ellen Levine
0.66 4.2 The Baker's Dozen: A Saint Nicholas Tale by Aaron Shepard
0.656 4.52 Don't Laugh at Me by Steve Seskin
0.635 4.17 God's Bestseller: William Tyndale, Thomas More, and the Writing of the English Bible---A Story of Martyrdom and Betrayal by Brian Moynahan
0.618 4.34 Faith (Global Fund for Children Books) by Maya Ajmera
0.589 4.33 The Blessing of a Skinned Knee: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children by Wendy Mogel
0.581 4.27 The Divine Hours: Prayers for Summertime--A Manual for Prayer (v. 1) by Phyllis Tickle
0.443 4.29 Lifetimes: The Beautiful Way to Explain Death to Children by Bryan Mellonie