Welcome to the fourth annual edition of So What Faith’s 5 Star Books of the Year!
This year, 17% of all books rated received a rating of 5 or 5+ to earn this honor (in prior years the percentage has ranged from 15% to 17%).
- Anthony M. Annett. Cathonomics: How Catholic Tradition Can Create a More Just Economy.
- Jennifer Garcia Bashaw. Scapegoats: The Gospel through the Eyes of Victims.
- Molly Phinney Baskette. How to Begin When Your World is Ending: A Spiritual Field Guide to Joy Despite Everything.
- Katelyn Beaty. Celebrities for Jesus: How Personas, Platforms, and Profits Are Hurting the Church.
- Michael Adam Beck and Tyler Kleeberger. Fresh Expressions of the Rural Church.
- Ryan P. Burge. 20 Myths About Religion and Politics in America.
- Gregg Colburn and Clayton Page Aldern. Homelessness is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns.
- Pamela Cooper-White. The Psychology of Christian Nationalism: Why People are Drawn In and How to Talk Across the Divide.
- John Dominic Crossan. Render Unto Cesar: The Struggle Over Christ and Culture in the New Testament.
- Philip S. Gorski and Samuel L. Perry. The Flag + The Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy.
- Patty Krawec. Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future.
- Paul D. Miller. The Religion of American Greatness: What’s Wrong with Christian Nationalism.
- Teri McDowell Ott. Necessary Risks: Challenges Privileged People Need to Face.
- Eboo Patel. We Need to Build: Field Notes for Diverse Democracy.
- Jason Porterfield. Fight Like Jesus: How Jesus Waged Peace Throughout Holy Week.
- Bob Smietana. Reorganized Religion: The Reshaping of the American Church and Why It Matters.
- Mark Yaconelli. Between the Listening and the Telling: How Stories Can Save Us.
Past Years
Be sure to check out prior lists
Best of the Best
So What Faith’s 13th annual list of the year’s top ten books will be published on December 12.