Nadia Bolz-Weber
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“I described Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World as ‘the only devotional book I can embrace at the moment.’ And now, here is a devotional book that is pure poetry. Pádraig’s prayers balance precision, spaciousness, heart, humor, doubt, and devotion in a way that feels at once impossible and also desperately needed. I am in love with his unsentimental orientation to the holy.”
“Jason Byassee spent only two days with our community at House for All Sinners and Saints, so I was shocked when the piece he wrote about us was spot-on. He saw things in my church I never noticed, but as soon as he said them I recognized [them] to be true. This ability to tell the church who we are and describe the landscape of American Christianity can come only from the singular combination of a scholarly mind and a pastoral heart.”
Christian Living
“In a world in which everything seems to be imploding around us, I don't find it particularly realistic or helpful to be told that I should really be transcending fear. But I totally trust Gareth Higgins when he writes about his own fear and how it's actually possible to transform it into something powerful, something capable of healing us and the world.”
Into the Mess and Other Jesus Stories
Christian Living
“While most Gospel commentators offer you information, when Debie Thomas speaks of the text, she offers you insight. Into the Mess is just the kind of honest, grace-soaked, beautiful, heartbreaking view of Jesus that makes me want to believe. There are few writers about Jesus out there today I trust more than Thomas. I’m so grateful for this book.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“I am grateful that Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons refuses to be silent about the 35 million progressive Christians in America whose faith and practice are largely ignored by the media. Progressive Christianity in America is a sleeping giant, and Graves-Fitzsimmons is our press secretary. Consider yourselves warned.”
History & Biography
“Jerry Herships reflects his own call to ministry: twisted, hilarious and amazing. . . . Most of us do church in the tidy, comfortable confines of a church building. Not Jerry Herships. He’s handing out the goods to drunks in bars and among the homeless in the park. Basically, my friend Jerry Pastors in the exact places I’m pretty sure Jesus would be hanging out today. Let The Church—capital T, capital C—take note.”
Christian Living
“Jacqueline Bussie is one of the most insightful and inviting thinkers in the church today. I love the way she seamlessly integrates head and heart into this vibrant treatise on what has always been at the center of Christianity and yet has so often been ignored: love.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Kim-Kort’s work is as personal as her own skin. She sees a thing, sees a body, sees a way of being and calls it by a name, queer. What was once a term of insult is now an honorary, a benediction, a name. In a time of 'othering,' her voice insists on naming—warmly, fiercely, pastorally.”
Bible Studies & Devotionals
“This book is a gorgeous invitation to experience the Bible as a living thing. Anna Carter Florence nudges the reader, saying ‘Can you feel the breath of it on your skin? Can you see how it moves? Can you hear what it’s saying in your own ear? Can you taste both the bitter and the sweet?’ She knows that if we do this, Scripture will always, always hand over the goods. I’m so grateful for her work, her love of the Bible, and her insistence that in it we find truth.”
Theology
“I’m grateful to Richard Beck for helping us reclaim that which was clearly important to Jesus: casting out demons and contending with evil. While I’m not sure if I believe in spiritual warfare, I’m certain I’ve experienced it, and Reviving Old Scratch allowed me to come several steps closer to reconciling these seemingly irreconcilable statements. Beck manages to take demons, the devil, and spiritual warfare and pull them into the reality we live in today, and for that I am grateful.”
Christian Living
“Rachel Held Evans has written a spiritual travel guide for religious runaways. She beautifully takes us with her as she leaves home, wanders, questions, suffers, and then returns. But the church she returns to is as true, raw, and beautifully difficult as the writer herself. As someone who has also left, been angered by, missed, then returned to church, I love this book. I love how Rachel doesn’t shy away from what’s ugly in her search for what’s beautiful both in herself and the church.”
Pastor.
Christian Living
“Root's pastoral work shines with integrity and love. I couldn't be more thrilled that she is now offering her wisdom to us all in The Deepest Belonging. This is a real treasure.”
The Great Wall of China and the Salton Sea
“The way [Rathbun] plays with the Flood and the Tower of Babel stories from Genesis in this book is brilliant. . . . This book will change the way you understand these stories in history, and in the Bible, and most importantly, in the story we're living now.”
Marriage, Family & Relationships
“Suzanne has been a priceless source of wisdom in my life for many years. She is without question the best Enneagram teacher out there.”
Christian Living
“With The Road Back to You, the small number of books I recommend to absolutely everyone has increased by one. You couldn't ask for a better introduction to the Enneagram than what's found in this book and you couldn't ask for better guides than Cron and Stabile. If a modicum of self-awareness is needed to navigate life these days, let this book be your map.”
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