The best new books I’ve read in the last month are
- (4.5) Appreciate These Things: Eight Ways of Cultivating Compassion by Jill J. Duffield (Westminster John Knox Press, 2025)
- (4.5) There is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America by Brian Goldstone (Crown, 2025)
- (4.5) Agapic Anger: Influencing Change While Navigating Gender by Jan R. Schnell (Fortress Press, 2025)
- (4.5) Pathways to Belonging edited by Dustin D. Benac, Erin Weber-Johnson, and Glen Bell (Cascade Books, 2025)
- (4.5) Blessed Are the Women: Naming and Reclaiming Women’s Stories from the Gospels by Claire K. McKeever-Burgett (Chalice Press, 2024)
- (4.0) The Unintentional Interim: Ministry in Times of Transition by Jeffrey A. Nelson (Pilgrim Press, 2025)
- (4.0) The Big Relief: The Urgency of Grace for a Worn-Out World by David Zahl (Brazos Press, 2025)
- (4.0) No One Left Alone: A Story of How Community Helps Us Heal by Liz Walker (Broadleaf Books, 2025)
Welcome Back
Four names on this month’s list are repeat authors or editors
- Jill Duffield first appeared on So What Faith in March 2021 when I rated a book she had recently authored: Lent in Plain Sight: A Devotion Through Ten Objects (Rated 4.0).
- Dustin Benac and Erin Weber-Johnson appeared in September 2021 on the occasion of my rating of a book they co-edited: Crisis & Care: Meditations on Faith and Philanthropy (Rated 5+). Later, I named it one of the Top 10 Books of 2021.
- David Zahl appeared in October 2022 for a book he authored that was published earlier that year: Low Anthropology: The Unlikely Key to a Gracious View of Others (and Yourself) (Rated 4.0).