Non-Fiction
How to Heal Our Racial Divide – Derwin Gray
Growing up, I thought that racism was a thing of the past. Like, I understood it was recent past. My (white) mom talked about how a Black family she babysat for in the late 70s […]
Genre: Christian Life
Non-Fiction
Seven Things I Wish Christians Knew About the Bible – Michael Bird
For years, I’ve longed for a text to use with high-schoolers to introduce them to the Bible. Even if you’ve read the Bible your whole life, or perhaps especially if you’ve read the Bible your […]
Non-Fiction
Are You Good With God? – D.A. Horton
Are You Good with God? is a book that made more sense as a book in pre-Internet times, but in an online age would probably have been better off as a blog post. At about […]
Non-Fiction
I Forgive You: Finding Peace and Moving Forward When Life Really Hurts – Wendy Alsup
Forgiveness is a difficult and complicated topic, especially since people have so many different definitions for what forgiveness means. Wendy Alsup is clear and biblical, and she is realistic about the differences between forgiveness and […]
Non-Fiction
The Six Seasons of Calling – Brian Sanders
Life has seasons. That’s something I’ve been reflecting on recently as I’ve gone through a sort of extended period of transition, following God and figuring out what the next steps in life are. Sometimes I […]
Non-Fiction
The 5 Apology Languages – Gary Chapman and Jennifer Thomas
Imagine a scene with two children and one child does something to the other that’s intentionally or unintentionally mean or rude. Cuts in line. Takes their toy. Shoves them. You get the idea. We’ve all […]
Non-Fiction
Choosing Us – Brian and Gail Song Bantum
You’ve not read a marriage book like this one. Choosing Us is less marriage manual and more marriage memoir. It’s the story of Gail Song Bantum and Brian Bantum, the challenges they’ve faced, the lessons […]
Non-Fiction
Attached to God – Krispin Mayfield
Attached to God is the type of book you can’t grasp in one reading. I had a difficult time writing this review because every time I sat down to parse out just how I felt […]
Non-Fiction
Heavy Burdens: Seven Ways LGBTQ Christians Experience Harm in the Church – Bridget Eileen Rivera
For they preach, but do not practice. They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger. – Matt. […]
Academic
A Field Guide to Christian Nonviolence – David Cramer and Myles Werntz
Right around the time I became a pacifist—thank you to Nonviolence: The Revolutionary Way of Jesus by Preston Sprinkle for that—I began to seek out other, more academic writings on Christian nonviolence and quickly ran […]