My Reviews of 100 Recently Published Books (#0382)

For the last two years, I have had the pleasure of reading and reviewing a book a week.  I encourage you to browse the alphabetical listing below as you ponder your summer reading plans.  For your convenience, each title is linked to my review.

Author	Title	Year
Aboujaoude, Elias	Virtually You: The Dangerous Powers of the E-Personality	2011
Allison, Jay and Gediman, Dan, eds.	This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable American Men and Women	2006
Allison, Jay and Gediman, Dan, eds.	This I Believe II: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable American Men and Women	2008
Barrs, Jerram	The Heart of Prayer: What Jesus Teaches Us	2008
Belcher, Jim	Deep Church: A Third Way Beyond Emerging and Traditional	2009
Borg, Marcus	Putting Away Childish Things: A Tale of Modern Faith	2010
Borg, Marcus	Speaking Christian: Why Christian Words Have Lost Their Meaning and Power – And How They Can Be Restored	2011
Braun, Kay Bender	On Earth as in Heaven: Praying at the Crossroads	2008
Breazeale, Kathlyn A.	Mutual Empowerment: A Theology of Marriage, Intimacy, and Redemption	2008
Browning, Dave	Deliberate Simplicity: How the Church Does More by Doing Less	2009
Brubaker, David	Promise and Peril: Understanding and Managing Change and Conflict in Congregations	2009
Buehrens, John A. and Parker, Rebecca Ann	A House for Hope: The Promise of Progressive Religion for the Twenty-first Century	2010
Campbell, Cynthia M.	A Multitude of Blessings: A Christian Approach to Religious Diversity	2007
Campolo, Tony	Partly Right: Learning from the Critics of Christianity	Rev. 2008
Chand, Samuel R.	Cracking Your Church’s Culture Code: Seven Keys to Unleashing Vision and Inspiration	2011
Claiborne, Shane; Hartgrove, Jonathan Wilson; & Okora, Enuma	Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals	2010
Crossan, John Dominic	The Greatest Prayer Ever: Rediscovering the Revolutionary Message of the Lord’s Prayer	2010
Duin, Julia	Quitting Church: Why the Faithful Are Fleeing and What to Do about it	2008
Ehrenreich, Barbara	Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking has Undermined America	2009
Estes, Douglas	SimChurch: Being the Church in the Virtual World	2009
Evans, Dave	Social Media Marketing: An Hour a Day	2008
Everts, Don and Schaupp, Doug	I Once Was Lost: What Postmodern Skeptics Taught Us About Their Path to Jesus	2008
Forbes, Jr., James A.	Whose Gospel? A Concise Guide to Progressive Protestantism	2010
Foster, Richard J. and Beebe, Gayle D.	Longing for God: Seven Paths of Christian Devotion	2009
Froese, Paul and Bader, Christopher	America’s Four Gods: What We Say About God  – & What That Says About Us	2010
Frost, Michael and Hirsch, Alan	ReJesus: A  Wild Messiah for a Missional Church	2009
Garrison, Becky	Jesus Died for This: A Satirist’s Search for the Risen Christ	2010
Gibbs, Eddie	ChurchMorph: How Megatrends are Reshaping Christian Communities	2009
Gillin, Paul	The New Influencers: A Marketer’s Guide to the New Social Media	2009
Groeschel, Craig	The Christian Atheist: Believing in God but Living as if He Doesn’t Exist	2010
Gulley, Phillip	If the Church Were Christian: Rediscovering the Values of Jesus	2010
Guthrie, Stan	All That Jesus Asks: How His Questions Can Teach and Transform Us	2010
Hamilton, Adam	Christianity’s Family Tree: What Other Christians Believe and Why	2007
Hipps, Shane	Flickering Pixels: How Technology Shapes Your Faith	2009
Honeycutt, Frank G.	The Truth Shall Make You Odd: Speaking with Pastoral Integrity in Awkward Situations	2011
Hunt, Mary E. and Neu, Diann L. eds.	New Feminist Christianity: Many Voices, Many Views	2010
Hunter, James Davison	To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, & Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World	2010
Koenig, John	Rediscovering New Testament Prayer: Boldness and Blessing in the Name of Jesus	1992
Krasny, Michael	Spiritual Envy: An Agnostic’s Quest	2010
Lyons, Gabe	The Next Christians: How a New Generation is Restoring the Faith	2010
MacDonald, Gordon	Who Stole my Church? What to do When the Church You Love Tries to Enter the 21st Century	2007
Mancini, Will	Church Unique: How Missional Leaders Cast Vision, Capture Culture, and Create Movement	2008
Martin, James	The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life	2010
McLaren, Brian	Naked Spirituality: A Life with God in 12 Simple Words	2011
Merritt, Carol Howard	Reframing Hope: Vital Ministry in a New Generation	2010
Merritt, Carol Howard	Tribal Church: Ministering to the Missing Generation	2007
McKnight, Scot	Fasting	2009
McKnight, Scot	One.Life: Jesus Calls, We Follow	2010
McKnight, Scot	The Real Mary: Why Evangelicals Can Embrace the Mother of Jesus	2007
Metaxas, Eric	Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Prophet, Spy – A Righteous Gentile Vs. The Third Reich	2010
Meyers, Robin R.	Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus	2009
Moore, Mary Elizabeth Mullino and Wright, Almeda M., eds.	Children, Youth, and Spirituality in a Troubling World	2008
Oden, Amy G.	God’s Welcome: Hospitality for a Gospel-Hungry World	2008
Parrett, Gary A. and Kang, S. Steve	Teaching the Faith, Forming the Faithful: A Biblical Vision for Education in the Church	2009
Penner, Myron B.	Christianity and the Postmodern Turn	2005
Peterson, Eugene	The Pastor: A Memoir	2011
Platt, David	Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream	2010
Prothero, Stephen	God is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World – and Why Their Differences Matter	2010
Putnam, Robert D. and Campbell, David E.	American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us	2010
Raschke, Carl	GloboChrist: The Great Commission Takes a Postmodern Turn	2008
Ratzinger, Joseph (Pope Benedict XVI)	Joseph Ratzinger in Communio, Volume 1: The Unity of the Church	2010
Robinson, Anthony B	Changing the Conversation: A Third Way for Congregations	2008
Rohr, Richard	Falling Upward: Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life	2011
Roose, Kevin	The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner’s Semester at America’s Holiest University	2009
Roxburgh, Alan J.	Missional: Joining God in the Neighborhood	2011
Rudin, James	Christians & Jews – Faith to Faith: Tragic History, Promising Present, Fragile Future	2011
Russell, Letty M.	Just Hospitality: God’s Welcome in a World of Difference	2009
Safko, Lon and Brake, David K.	The Social Media Bible	2009
Schlabach, Gerald W.	Unlearning Protestantism: Sustaining Christian Community in an Unstable Age	2010
Shoemaker, H. Stephen	Finding Jesus in His Prayers	2004
Schori, Katharine Jefferts	The Heartbeat of God: Finding the Sacred in the Middle of Everything	2011
Scott, David Meerman	The New Rules of Marketing & PR: How to Use News Releases, Blogs, Podcasting, Viral Marketing & Online Media to Reach Buyers	2009
Shortt, Rupert	Rowan’s Rule: The Biography of the Archbishop of Canterbury	2009
Smith, James Bryan	The Good and Beautiful God: Falling in Love with the God Jesus Knows	2009
Smith, James K. A.	The Devil Reads Derrida and Other Essays on the University, the Church, and the Arts	2009
Spencer, Michael	Mere Churchianity: Finding Your Way Back to Jesus-Shaped Spirituality	2010
Spencer, William and Aida and Tracy, Steve and Celestia	Marriage at the Crossroads: Couples in Conversation About Discipleship, Gender Roles, Decision Making, and Intimacy	2009
Sproul, R.C.	The Prayer of the Lord	2009
Stark, Rodney	What Americans Really Believe	2008
Steckel, Clyde J.	New Ecclesiology & Polity	2009
Stetzer, Ed and Rainer, Thom  S.	Transformational Church: Creating a New Scorecard for Congregations	2010
Stiver, Dan R.	Life Together in the Way of Jesus Christ: An Introduction to Christian Theology	2009
Sweet, Leonard	Nudge: Awakening Each Other to the God Who’s Already There	2010
Sweet, Leonard	So Beautiful: Divine Design for Life and the Church	2009
Sweet, Leonard and Viola, Frank	Jesus Manifesto: Restoring the Supremacy and Sovereignty of Jesus Christ	2010
Tanner, Kathryn	Christ the Key	2010
Ten Elshof, Gregg A.	I Told Me So: Self-Deception and the Christian Life	2009
Toft, Monica Duffy; Philpott Daniel and Shah, Timothy Samuel	God’s Century: Resurgent Religion and Global Politics	2011
Tutu, Desmond (ed. Allen, John)	God Is Not a Christian And Other Provocations	2011
Volf, Miroslav	Captive to the Word of God: Engaging the Scriptures for Contemporary Theological Reflection	2010
Westphal, Merold	Whose Community? Which Interpretation? Philosophical Hermeneutics for the Church	2009
Whitsitt, Landon	Open Source Gospel: Ten Commandments for the Future of the Christian Faith	2010
Williams, Clifford	Existential Reasons for Belief in God: A Defense of Desires & Emotions for Faith	2011
Williams, Scott	Church Diversity: Sunday the Most Segregated Day of the Week	2011
Willimon, William H.	Why Jesus?	2010
Winner, Lauren F.	Mudhouse Sabbath: An Invitation to a Life of Spiritual Discipline	2003
Wright, Bradley R. E.	Christians are Hate-Filled Hypocrites . . . and Other Lies You’ve Been Told: A Sociologist Shatters Myths From the Secular and Christian Media	2010
Wright, N. T.	Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church	2008
Wuthnow, Robert	After the Baby Boomers: How Twenty- and Thirty-Somethings are Shaping the Future of American Religion	2007
Wuthnow, Robert	Boundless Faith: The Global Outreach of American Churches	2009