This year I read 120 books published in 2020, and shared my ratings here on So What Faith. Based on my ratings, the top 20 books are Author Title Sarah CiavarriFinding Our Way to the Truth: Seven Lies Leaders Believe and How to Let Go of Them Kaitlin B. CurticeNative: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering GodKathy EscobarPracticing: Changing Yourself to Change the WorldGuthrie Graves-FitzsimmonsJust Faith: Reclaiming Progressive Christianity Lisa Greer and Larissa Read More …
David Gushee
Great New Books – October 2020 (#1892)
My latest list of great books features ten volumes published in 2020: (5+) Make Change: How to Fight Injustice, Dismantle Systemic Oppression, and Own Our Future by Shaun King (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020) (5.0) Just Faith: Reclaiming Progressive Christianity by Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons (Broadleaf Books, 2020) (5.0) Veritas: A Harvard Professor, A Con Man, and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife by Ariel Sabar (Doubleday, 2020) (5.0) After Evangelicalism: The Path to a Read More …
Vital Christianity (#1453)
David Gushee, Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics and Director of the Center for Theology and Public Life Mercer University, recently shared his vision of vital Christianity. It is this sort of Christianity to which Gushee himself is drawn, and it is the type of Christianity he believes will be attractive in a post-Christian America. In short, vital Christianity as I see it is Christ-centered and wholly committed, passionate, loving and just, personally and socially Read More …