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Top 10 Books of 2022 (#2019)

2022/12/12 By Greg

Welcome to the 13th annual So What Faith’s Top 10 Books of the Year.

Books are listed in alphabetical order by author’s last name

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Top Two

The two books on this year’s top ten that had the greatest impact on me are

  • Reorganized Religion: The Reshaping of the American Church and Why It Matters by Bob Smietana.
  • Scapegoats: The Gospel through the Eyes of Victims by Jennifer Garcia Bashaw.

Prior Lists

There are so many great books published in recent years.  Past editions of So What Faith’s Top 10 Books of the Year are available below:

  • 2021
  • 2020
  • 2019
  • 2018
  • 2017
  • 2016
  • 2015
  • 2014
  • 2013
  • 2012
  • 2011
  • 2010

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