The best new books I’ve read in the last 30 days are listed below. (5.0) Only Work Sundays: A Laidback Guide to Doing Less while Helping Your Church Thrive by Liz Miller (Pilgrim Press, 2023)(4.5) King: A Life by Jonathan Eig (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023)(4.5) The Word Made Fresh: Preaching God's Love for Every Body by George A. Mason (Front Edge Publishing, 2023)*4.5) The Song of Significance: A New Manifesto for Teams by Seth Godin (Portfolio / Penguin, 2023)(4.0) Walking With Read More …
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Great New Books – March 2020 (#1855)
During the last month, I read ten great new books (published in 2019 or 2020): (5.0) Saving God from Religion: A Minister's Search for Faith in a Skeptical Age by Robin R. Meyers (Convergent Books, 2020)(4.5) Materiality as Resistance: Five Elements for Moral Action in the Real World by Walter Brueggemann (Westminster John Knox Press , 2020)(4.5) Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement edited by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Ejiris Dixon Read More …
Book Recommendations – Bonus List for February 2019 (#1777)
Over the last few years, I've typically shared a list of book recommendations on a monthly basis. Since I didn't read many books published in 2019 until January I didn't share my first list on the year until the first day of February. With so many wonderful books being published early in 2019, I've decided to share a second February list - a bonus list. Over the last two weeks, I read several new books worth recommending. The following volumes were all published in 2019. (5.0) Empty Read More …
Book Recommendations – April 2018 (#1728)
During the first quarter of 2018 I read a few dozen books published in the last fifty years. For the sake of this post, I've limited my recommendations to recently published works (books published since November 2017). (5+) Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police and Punish the Poor by Virginia Eubanks (St. Martin's Press, 2018) (5.0) The CEO Next Door: The 4 Behaviors that Transform Ordinary People into World-Class Leaders by Elena L. Read More …
Top 10 Books of 2014 (#1503)
Since 2010, I have published an annual list of my top ten books published that year (each list contains a link to a book review for each book mentioned): 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013. My top ten books for 2014 (in alphabetical order by author’s last name) are Marcus Borg Convictions: How I Learned What Matters Most Walter Brueggemann Sabbath as Resistance: Saying No to the Culture of Now Amy-Jill Levine Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Read More …
July Book Recommendations (#1451)
The last few weeks have been a time of transition for me. I have used the occasion to read the books in my "must read" stack, which had been growing for some time. They follow in the order I have rated them (using a 1-5 scale). (5+) The Rebirthing of God: Christianity's Struggle for New Beginnings by John Philip Newell (2014) (5) We Make the Road by Walking by Brian D. McLaren (2014) (5) Sabbath as Resistance: Saying No to the Culture of Now by Walter Read More …
Recent Reading (#1050)
I have written over 200 book reviews on this blog since the summer of 2009. On this the first Monday (some of my regular readers are aware my new book reviews are more likely to appear on Monday than any other day of the week) following Easter, instead of my normal reviews I offer a list of five books I have read recently (listed by rating, on a scale of 5.0). (5.0) The Word Made Fresh: Communicating Church and Faith Today by Meredith Gould (2009) (4.5) The Definitive-ish Guide for Using Read More …
Review of Changing the Script (#0188)
Daniel Schultz. Changing the Script: Authentically Faithful and Authentically Progressive Political Theology for the 21st Century. Ig Publishing: 2010. ISBN: 9781935439141. Meet the Author Daniel Schultz is pastor of Salem United Church of Christ in Wayne, Wisconsin. He is also the co-founder and contributor to Street Prophets, which is an offspring of Daily Kos that seeks to mobilize "progressive people of faith to name, discuss and take action on Read More …