My latest list of great books features ten volumes published in 2020:
- (5.0) Finding Our Way to the Truth: Seven Lies Leaders Believe and How to Let Go of Them by Sarah Ciavarri (Fortress Press, 2020)
- (4.5) Without Oars: Casting Off into a Life of Pilgrimage by Wesley Granberg-Michaelson (Broadleaf Books, 2020)
- (4.5) Republican Jesus: How the Right Has Rewritten the Gospels by Tony Keddie (University of California Press, 2020)
- (4.5) The Bible With and Without Jesus: How Jews and Christians Read the Same Stories Differently by Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler (HarperOne, 2020)
- (4.0) Who Stole my Bible? Reclaiming Scripture as a Handbook for Resisting Tyranny by Jennifer Butler (Faith in Public Life, 2020
- (4.0) Ask, Listen, Act: A New Model for Philanthropy by Luz Vega-Marquis (Jaques Books, 2020)
- (4.0) We Shall Be Changed: Questions for the Post-Pandemic Church edited by Mark D. W. Edington (Church Publish Incorporated, 2020)
- (4.0) Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine (Graywolf Press, 2020)
- (3.5) Next Wave: Discovering the 21st Century Church by Steve Pike (ArtSpeak Creative, 2020)
- (3.5) Doubting Faithfully: Confessions of a Skeptical Pastor by Keith Long (2020)
Finding Our Way
Sarah Ciavarri is a first time author who spent more than twenty years as a chaplain. She is the founder of This Wholehearted Life, a Professional Certified Coach, and a popular speaker. Ciavarri is a Certified Facilitator of all of Dr. Brene Brown’s curricula, and has facilitated more than 200 workshops.
Being a good leader on any given day and leading well over the course of one’s professional career are challenging aspirations. One of the more significant but less talked about obstacles are the common lies leaders often begin to believe about themselves. Ciavarri’s book invites leaders to recognize the power of these lies and take purposeful steps to overcome them.
The seven lies are
- I don’t know enough
- I must finish what I started
- I must follow the rules
- I have to be nice
- People must like me
- I’m responsible for it all
- I need to be the right type of Christian