Welcome to 2022!
My first list of great new books for the year follows. (All books were published in 2021 or 2022.)
- (4.5) Be the Brave One: Living Your Spiritual Values Out Loud and Other Life Lessons by Ann Kansfield (Broadleaf Books, 2021)
- (4.5) Sharing Leadership: A United Church of Christ Way of Being in Community by Sarah B. Drummond (Pilgrim Press, 2021)
- (4.5) American Made: What Happens to People When Work Disappears by Farah Stockman (Random House, 2021)
- (4.0) The Generation Myth: Why When You’re Born Matters Less Than You Think by Bobby Duffy (Basic Books, 2021)
- (4.0) Remove the Pews: Spiritual Possibilities in Sacred Spaces by Donna Schaper (The Pilgrim Press, 2021)
- (4.0) Fierce Love: A Bold Path to Ferocious Courage and Rule-Breaking Kindness That Can Heal the World by Jacqui Lewis (Harmony, 2021)
- (4.0) The Good Life Method: Reasoning Through the Big Questions of Happiness, Faith, and Meaning by Meghan Sullivan and Paul Blaschko (Penguin Press, 2022)
- (3.5) Breaking Ground: Charting Our Future in a Pandemic Year edited by Anne Snyder and Susannah Black (Plough House, 2022)
- (3.5) Terraform: Building a Better World by Propaganda (HarperOne, 2021)
- (3.5) The Church Revitalization Checklist: A Hopeful and Practical Guide for Leading Your Congregation to a Brighter Tomorrow by Sam Rainer (Tyndale Momentum, 2022)
All authors on this list appear for their first time on So What Faith with two exceptions:
- Donna Schaper first appeared in 2014 when Pray: Prayers for People Who Say They Can’t received a perfect rating of 5.0.
- Sam Rainer first appeared in 2016 when Who Moved My Pulpit: Leading Change in the Church received a rating of 4.0.