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 …
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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 …
Great New Books – June 2020 (#1870)
The the ten best new books (published in 2020) I read over the last month are (5+) Rethinking Success: Eight Essential Practices for Finding Meaning in Work and Life by J. Douglas Holladay (HarperOne, 2020) (5.0) Practicing: Changing Yourself to Change the World by Kathy Escobar (Westminster John Knox Press, 2020) (4.5) None of the Above: Nonreligious Identity in the US and Canada by Joel Thiessen and Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme (New York University Press, 2020) (4.5) Using Read More …
Great New Books – May 2020 (#1866)
Over the last month, I've read a number of great new books. The ten best volumes follow. (5+) Part-Time is Plenty: Thriving Without Full-Time Clergy by G. Jeffrey MacDonald (Westminister John Knox Press, 2020) (4.5) Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife by Bart D. Ehrman (Simon & Schuster, 2020) (4.5) Touched: For Survivors of Sexual Assault Like Me Who Have Been Hurt by Church Folk and Those Who Care by Shanell T. Smith (Fortress Press, Read More …
Great New Books – April 2020 (#1860)
Over the last 30 days, I read several new books. The top ten (all published in the last twelve months) are (5.0) The Velvet Rope Economy: How Inequality Became Big Business by Nelson D. Schwartz (Doubleday, 2020) (4.5) Broken Faith: Inside the World of Faith Fellowship, One of America's Most Dangerous Cults by Mitch Weiss and Holbrook Mohr (Hanover Square Press, 2020) (4.5) Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before they Happen by Dan Heath (Avid Reader Press, 2020) (4.0) When my Time Read More …
Great New Books – March 2020 (#1855)
During the last month, I read ten great new books (published in 2019 or 2020): (5.0) Saving God from Religion: A Minister's Search for Faith in a Skeptical Age by Robin R. Meyers (Convergent Books, 2020)(4.5) Materiality as Resistance: Five Elements for Moral Action in the Real World by Walter Brueggemann (Westminster John Knox Press , 2020)(4.5) Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement edited by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Ejiris Dixon Read More …
Great New Books – February 2020 (#1850)
During the first month of 2020, I read ten great new books (published in 2020): (5.0) Where Goodness Still Grows: Reclaiming Virtue in an Age of Hypocrisy by Amy Peterson (W Publishing Group, 2020) (4.5) We Were Spiritual Refugees: A Story to Help You Believe in Church by Katie Hays (Eerdmans, 2020) (4.5) Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn (Knopf, 2020) (4.5) Another Way: Living and Leading Change on Purpose by Stephen Read More …