Book Reviews

This section contains extended reviews of several books that I’ve found particularly interesting or helpful. Some of the reviews are rather long. Hopefully they are useful to those who are on the fence about whether or not to read the books. Direct links to these reviews are below:

Three Books About Immigration

Review of – The Universal Christ – by Richard Rohr

The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism – by Martin Wolf

The Myth of Normal: Trauma Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture – by Gabor Mate’ with Daniel Mate’

Evangelicals and The Problem of the Bible:

Insider Outsider: My Journey as a Stranger in White Evangelicalism and My Hope for Us All – by Bryan Loritts

Theology for the People – 2 Books by Richard Beck

Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies – by Marilyn McEntyre

The Map is Not the Journey – by Richard Dahlstrom

The Work of Theology – Hauerwas

Addiction and Virtue – Dunnington

The Divine Dance – Richard Rohr

Reading Backwards – Richard Hays

I See Satan Falling – Rene’ Girard

Four Views on Salvation in a Pluralistic World – Hick, et. al.

The Day the Revolution Began – N. T. Wright

Becoming Whole and Holy – Brown, et. al.

Letter to My Congregation – Bible Gender Sexuality – Wilson & Brownson

The Slavery of Death – Beck

Three Leadership Books

Becoming Friends of Time – John Swinton

Three Books on Race