Welcome to the 13th annual So What Faith's Top 10 Books of the Year. Books are listed in alphabetical order by author’s last name Jennifer Garcia Bashaw. Scapegoats: The Gospel through the Eyes of Victims.Molly Phinney Baskette. How to Begin When Your World is Ending: A Spiritual Field Guide to Joy Despite Everything.Katelyn Beaty. Celebrities for Jesus: How Personas, Platforms, and Profits Are Hurting the Church.Ryan P. Burge. 20 Myths About Religion and Politics in America.Gregg Read More …
Bob Smietana
Great New Books – October 2022 (#2012)
The best new books I’ve read in the last month are (5+) Reorganized Religion: The Reshaping of the American Church and Why It Matters by Bob Smietana (Worthy, 2022)(5.0) Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future by Patty Krawec (Broadleaf Books, 2022)(5.0) Fresh Expressions of the Rural Church by Michael Adam Beck and Tyler Kleeberger (Abingdon Press, 2022)(4.5) Hope: A User's Manual by MaryAnn McKibben Dana (William B. Eerdmans, 2022)(4.5) Read More …
What Is Required to be a Christian? Less than Expected (#0304)
What's the Least I Can Believe and Still Be a Christian? is both an important question and the title of a popular new book by Martin Thielen. According to Bob Smietana's March 13 article in The Tennessean the book was released in January and "has become a surprise hit, with a second printing on the way." Thielen is a former Southern Baptist who left the denomination when it took a fundamentalist turn. He is now an ordained United Methodist pastor who serves as the Pastor of Lebanon Read More …