The best books I’ve read in the last month are
- (5+) Everything Good About God is True: Choosing Faith by Bruce Reyes Chow (Broadleaf Books, 2024)
- (4.5) 2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year that Changed Everything by Eric Klinenberg (Knopf, 2024)
- (4.5) White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy by Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman (Random House, 2024)
- (4.5) Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith by Sarah Bessey (Convergent Books, 2024)
- (4.0) We Become What We Normalize: What We Owe to Each Other in Worlds That Demand Our Silence by David Dark (Broadleaf Books, 2023)
- (4.0) Doing Justice Together: Fresh Expressions Pathways to Heal Racism in Your Church by Michael Adam Beck and Stephanie Moore Hand (Abingdon Press, 2024)
- (4.0) Radical Humility: Be a Badass Leader and a Good Human by Urs Koenig (Amplify, 2024)
- (3.5) Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization by Brad Wilcox (Broadside Books, 2024)
Everything Good About God is True
Everything Good About God is True: Choosing Faith is the first book to receive 5+ rating (only 3 books received this special rating in 2023)
There is more than one way to be Christian. In opposition to the loud voices of Christian nationalism and any number of exclusive approaches, Bruce Reyes Chow offers a liberative, inclusive, life-giving. hope-filled, justice-oriented approach. This “better way” stands on its own by focusing on what it is for rather than what it is against. With this in mind, Bruce Reyes Chow’s explores his own faith montage not in hopes of universal adoption, but rather, to inspire you to craft your own.
I invite you to explore this book on your own and with a group, trusting that both experiences will enrich your faith journey.
Welcome Back
Three authors on this month’s list have appeared on So What Faith in the past:
- Bruce Reyes Chow has been mentioned several times. As an author, he was noted in 2021 for Defense of Kindness: Why it Matters, How it Changes Our Lives, and How it Can Save the World (4.5), in 2013 for The Definitive-ish Guide for Using Social Media in the Church (4.5), and in 2013 for But I Don’t See You As Asian: Curating Conversations About Race (predating the implementation of ratings). His writing has also inspired other posts, including Effective Social Media Usage (2012) and You Might Be a Progressive Christian If . . . (2011).
- Eric Klinenberg has been featured on two top ten books of the year lists: 2018 for Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization (5.0), and the Decline of Civic Life and 2012 for Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone (predating the implementation of ratings) In 2019, he was named one of the top twelve authors of the first decade of So What Faith.
- Sarah Bessey has appeared as an author and as an editor. As an author, In 2019, Miracles and Other Reasonable Things: A Story of Unlearning and Relearning God was rated 4.5. And, a volume she edited, A Rhythm of Prayer: A Collection of Meditations for Renewal , received a 4.5 rating in 2021.