My first post of the year focused on great new books features eight volumes published in 2020 and two published in 2021. (5.0) Faith After Doubt: Why Your Beliefs Stopped Working and What to Do About It by Brian D. McLaren (St. Martin's Press, 2021) (4.5) The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism by Katherine Stewart (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020) (4.5) Future Church: Seven Laws of Real Church Growth by Will Mancini and Cory Hartman (Baker Books, 2020) (4.5) Read More …
Books
Top 10 Books of 2020 (#1904)
Welcome to the 11th annual So What Faith list of the top ten books of the year (books are listed in alphabetical order by author's last name): Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons. Just Faith: Reclaiming Progressive Christianity. Lisa Greer and Larissa Kostoff. Philanthropy Revolution: How to Inspire Donors, Build Relationships, and Make a Difference. J. Douglas Holladay. Rethinking Success: Eight Essential Practices for Finding Meaning in Work and Life. Robert P. Jones. White Read More …
Top 20 Books of 2020 (#1902)
This year I read 120 books published in 2020, and shared my ratings here on So What Faith. Based on my ratings, the top 20 books are Author Title Sarah CiavarriFinding Our Way to the Truth: Seven Lies Leaders Believe and How to Let Go of Them Kaitlin B. CurticeNative: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering GodKathy EscobarPracticing: Changing Yourself to Change the WorldGuthrie Graves-FitzsimmonsJust Faith: Reclaiming Progressive Christianity Lisa Greer and Larissa Read More …
Great New Books – December 2020 (#1901)
My latest list of great books features ten volumes published in 2020: (5.0) Finding Our Way to the Truth: Seven Lies Leaders Believe and How to Let Go of Them by Sarah Ciavarri (Fortress Press, 2020) (4.5) Without Oars: Casting Off into a Life of Pilgrimage by Wesley Granberg-Michaelson (Broadleaf Books, 2020) (4.5) Republican Jesus: How the Right Has Rewritten the Gospels by Tony Keddie (University of California Press, 2020) (4.5) The Bible With and Without Jesus: How Read More …
Great New Books – November 2020 (#1896)
My latest list of great books features ten volumes published in 2020: (5.0) Always a Guest: Speaking of Faith Far From Home by Barbara Brown Taylor (Westminster John Knox, 2020) (4.5) Sanctuary: Being Christian in the Wake of Trump by Heidi B. Neumark (William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2020) (4.5) Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta (HarperOne, 2020) (4.5) The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket Read More …
Great New Books – October 2020 (#1892)
My latest list of great books features ten volumes published in 2020: (5+) Make Change: How to Fight Injustice, Dismantle Systemic Oppression, and Own Our Future by Shaun King (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020) (5.0) Just Faith: Reclaiming Progressive Christianity by Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons (Broadleaf Books, 2020) (5.0) Veritas: A Harvard Professor, A Con Man, and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife by Ariel Sabar (Doubleday, 2020) (5.0) After Evangelicalism: The Path to a Read More …
Great New Books – September 2020 (#1887)
My latest list of great books features ten volumes published in 2020: (5+) Philanthropy Revolution: How to Inspire Donors, Build Relationships, and Make a Difference by Lisa Greer and Larissa Kostoff (HaperCollins, 2020) (5.0) White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity by Robert P. Jones (Simon & Schuster, 2020) (4.5) Better Together: Making Church Mergers Work, Expanded and Updated by Jim Tomberlin and Warren Bird (Fortress Press, Read More …
Great New Books – August 2020 (#1882)
My latest list of great books features ten volumes published in 2020: (5.0) Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez (Liveright, 2020) (4.5) Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World by Tara Isabella Burton (Public Affairs, 2020) (4.5) Coach the Person not the Problem: A Guide to Using Reflective Inquiry by Marcia Reynolds (Berrett-Koehler, 2020) (4.5) The Myth of the American Dream: Read More …
Great New Books – Summer 2020 (#1879)
The ten best recently published books I've read since sharing my last list of great new books are (5+) The Power of Ritual: Turning Everyday Activities Into Soulful Practices by Casper ter Kuile (Harper Collins, 2020) (5.0) What Happens When we Practice Religion: Textures of Devotion in Everyday Life by Robert Wuthnow (Princeton University Press, 2020) (4.5) The Way of Gratitude: A New Spirituality for Today by Galen Guengerich (Random House, 2020) (4.5) The Way Up is Down: Read More …
Great New Books – July 2020 (#1876)
The ten best recently published books I read during the last month are (5+) For All Who Hunger: Searching for Communion in a Shattered World by Emily M. D. Scott (Convergent, 2020) (5.0) Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God by Kaitlin B. Curtice (Brazos Press, 2020) (5.0) Tough Questions, Honest Answers: Faith and Religion for 21st Century Explorers by Cameron Harder (Fortress Press, 2020) (4.5) Celebrity Worship by Pete Ward (Routledge, Read More …