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Book Reviews - A Comprehensive Index by Author

This index lists all of the JwJ book reviews by author. We also provide a single listing of all reviews organized by category. All reviews are by Daniel B. Clendenin except as noted.

Our four most recent book reviews

17 May 2015	Philip Kitcher, Life After Faith; The Case for Secular Humanism
10 May 2015	Garry Wills, The Future of the Catholic Church with Pope Francis
3 May 2015	Lauren Winner, Wearing God: Clothing, Laughter, Fire, and Other Overlooked Ways of Meeting God
26 April 2015	Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction; An Unnatural History

Mark Adams, Turn Right at Machu Picchu; Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah: A Novel.
Andre Agassi, Open; An Autobiography.
Eben Alexander, Proof of Heaven; A Neurosurgeon's Journey Into the Afterlife.
Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow; Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.
Paul Alexander, Signs and Wonders; Why Pentecostalism is the World's Fastest Growing Faith.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Infidel.
- Nomad; From Islam to America, A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations.
James Allen, Hilton Als, Congressman John Lewis, and Leon F. Litwack, Without Sanctuary; Lynching Photography in America.
Arthur J. Ammann, with Barbara McLennan, (in)Visible: From Obscure to Valuable.
Amnesty International Report 2010: The State of the World's Human Rights.
Karen Ande (photography) and Ruthann Richter (text), with a foreword by Peter Piot, Face to Face; Children of the AIDS Crisis in Africa.
Gary A. Anderson, Charity: The Place of the Poor in the Biblical Tradition.
Scott Anderson, Lawrence in Arabia; War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Middle East.
Maya Angelou, Mother; A Cradle to Hold Me.
Sinan Antoon, The Corpse Washer.
Simon Armitage, Walking Home; A Poet's Journey.
Reza Aslan, No god but God; The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam.
David Augsburger, Dissident Discipleship; A Spirituality of Self-Surrender, Love of God, and Love of Neighbor.
Wes Avram, ed., Anxious About Empire; Theological Essays on the New Global Realities.
Mahmoud M. Ayoub, Islam: Faith and History.
Andrew Bacevich
- Breach of Trust; How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country.
- The Limits of Power; The End of American Exceptionalism.
- The New American Militarism; How Americans Are Seduced By War.
- Washington Rules; America's Path to Permanent War.
Bernard Bailyn, The Barbarous Years; The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600–1675.
Jay Bakker, with Andy Meisenheimer, Faith, Doubt, and Other Lines I've Crossed Walking With the Unknown God.
Randall Balmer, Thy Kingdom Come; An Evangelical's Lament. How the Religious Right Distorts the Faith and Threatens America.
Ruth Bancewicz, editor, Test of Faith; Spiritual Journeys with Scientists.
M. Craig Barnes, Searching for Home; Spirituality for Restless Souls.
Julian Barnes
- Levels of Life.
- Nothing to Be Frightened Of.
- The Sense of an Ending: A Novel.
Bartholomew I, His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch, Encountering the Mystery; Understanding Orthodox Christianity Today.
Diana Butler Bass, A People's History of Christianity; The Other Side of the Story.
Jean-Dominique Bauby, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
Timothy Beal, The Rise and Fall of the Bible; The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book.
Greg Behrman, The Invisible People; How the US Has Slept Through the Global AIDS Pandemic, the Greatest Humanitarian Catastrophe of Our Time.
Harry Belafonte with Michael Shnayerson, Harry Belafonte: My Song
Rob Bell, Velvet Elvis; Repainting the Christian Faith.
Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon, The Next Attack; The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting It Right.
Karima Bennoune, Your Fatwa Does Not Belong Here; Untold Stories From the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism.
Michael Benson, Far Out; A Space Time Chronicle.
Morris Berman, Dark Ages America; The Final Phase of Empire.
Georges Bernanos, The Diary of a Country Priest.
Daniel Berrigan
- The Kings and Their Gods; The Pathology of Power.
- No Gods But One.
Bertice Berry, The Ties That Bind; A Memoir of Race, Memory, and Redemption.
Wendell Berry

Asia Bibi, Blasphemy: A Memoir. Sentenced to Death Over a Cup of Water.
J. Brent Bill, Holy Silence; The Gift of Quaker Spirituality.
Harold Bloom, The Shadow of a Great Rock; A Literary Appreciation of the King James Bible.
Harold Bloom and Jesse Zuba, editors, American Religious Poems, An Anthology.
Leonardo Boff, Francis of Rome and Francis of Assisi; A New Springtime for the Church.
Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers; Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity.
Marcus Borg
- The Heart of Christianity; Rediscovering a Life of Faith.
- Jesus; Uncovering the Life, Teachings, and Relevance of a Religious Revolutionary.
- The Last Week; A Day-by-Day Account of Jesus's Final Week in Jerusalem.
- Speaking Christian; Why Christian Words Have Lost Their Meaning and Power, and How They Can Be Restored.
Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan, The First Christmas; What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus's Birth.
Jennifer Finney Boylan, She's Not There; A Life in Two Genders.
Gregory A. Boyd, The Myth of a Christian Nation; How the Quest for Political Power is Destroying the Church.
Timothy Bradshaw, ed., The Way Forward? Christian Voices on Homosexuality and the Church.
Bernard Brady and Mark Neuzil, A Spiritual Field Guide; Meditations for the Outdoors.
Rick Bragg
- All Over But the Shoutin'.
- Ava's Man.

The Prince of Frogtown.

Marc Zvi Brettler, Peter Enns, and Daniel J. Harrington, The Bible and the Believer; How to Read the Bible Critically and Religiously.
Amy Brill, The Movement of Stars.
Bertram D. Brochmann, The Art of Reading the Bible.
Daniel James Brown, The Indifferent Stars Above; The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride.
Ian Brown, The Boy in the Moon; A Father's Journey to Understand His Extraordinary Son.
Peter Brown, Through the Eye of a Needle; Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350–550 AD.
Walter Brueggemann,
- Prayers for a Privileged People.
- Spirituality of the Psalms.
Bill Bryson
- A Short History of Nearly Everything.
- A Walk in the Woods.
David Brooks, On Paradise Drive; How We Live Now (And Always Have) In The Future Tense.
Margaret Bullitt-Jonas
- Christ's Passion, Our Passions; Reflections on the Seven Last Words from the Cross.
- Holy Hunger; A Woman's Journey from Food Addiction to Spiritual Fulfillment.
W. David Buschart, Exploring Protestant Traditions; An Invitation to Theological Hospitality.
Carmen Acevedo Butcher, translator and editor, Hildegard of Bingen; A Spiritual Reader.
Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking.
Scott Cairns
- Compass of Affection; Poems New and Selected.
- Endless Life; Poems of the Mystics .
- Idiot Psalms: New Poems.
Will D. Campbell
- Brother to a Dragonfly.
- Forty Acres and a Goat: A Memoir.
Devon W. Carbado and Donald Weise, editors, The Long Walk to Freedom; Runaway Slave Narratives.
Laura L. Carstensen, A Long Bright Future; An Action Plan for a Lifetime of Happiness, Health, and Financial Security.
John Cassian (tr. by Boniface Ramsey)
- The Conferences.
- The Institutes.
Paul-Gordon Chandler, Pilgrims of Christ on the Muslim Road; Exploring a New Path Between Two Faiths.
Veronica Chater, Waiting for the Apocalypse; A Memoir of Faith and Family.
Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton.
James Childs, editor, Faithful Conversation; Christian Perspectives on Homosexuality.
Bruce Chilton, Mary Magdalene; A Biography.
Joan Chittister
- Called to Question; A Spiritual Memoir.
- The Gift of Years; Growing Older Gracefully.
- Listen with the Heart; Sacred Moments in Everyday Life.
- Scarred By Struggle, Transformed by Hope.
Noam Chomsky, Failed States; The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy.
Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth and Karen Dillon, How Will You Measure Your Life?
John Chryssavgis, In the Heart of the Desert; The Spirituality of the Desert Fathers and Mothers.
Jeff Chu, Does Jesus Really Love Me? A Gay Christian's Pilgrimage in Search of God in America.
Amy Chua, World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability.
Norris J. Chumley, Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer; Experiencing the Presence of God and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of an Ancient Spirituality.
Rodney Clapp, Tortured Wonders; Christian Spirituality for People, Not Angels.
Eric Clapton, Clapton: The Autobiography.
G.W. Clarke, translation and introduction, The Octavius of Minucius Felix, no. 39, Ancient Christian Writers
John Climacus, The Ladder of Divine Ascent.
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist.
Paul Collier
- The Bottom Billion; Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It.
- The Plundered Planet; Why We Must — and How We Can — Manage Nature for Global Prosperity
Francis Collins, The Language of God; A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief in God.
John J. Collins, The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Biography.
James A. Connor, The Last Judgment; Michelangelo and the Death of the Renaissance.
Michael Coogan, The Ten Commandments; A Short History of an Ancient Text.
Kate Cooper, Band of Angels; The Forgotten World of Early Christian Women.
Gerald F. Cox, The Radical Peasant.
Harvey Cox
- The Future of Faith.
- When Jesus Came to Harvard; Making Moral Choices Today.
Stephen Cox, American Christianity.
Barbara C. Crafton, Jesus Wept: When Faith and Depression Meet.
Lindsey Crittenden, The Water Will Hold You; A Skeptic Learns to Pray.
John Dominic Crossan, The Greatest Prayer; Rediscovering the Revolutionary Message of the Lord's Prayer
Carol Curoe and Robert Curoe, Are There Closets in Heaven? A Catholic Father and a Lesbian Daughter Share Their Story.
John Bul Dau with Michael S. Sweeney, God Grew Tired of Us; A Memoir.
Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms; The Rise and Fall of States and Nations.
Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion (review by Martin Marty).
Judith M. Dean, Julie Schaffner, and Stephen L.S. Smith, editors, Attacking Poverty in the Developing World; Christian Practitioners and Academics in Collaboration.
Esther de Waal, editor, The Celtic Vision; Prayers, Blessings, Songs and Incantations from the Gaelic Tradition.
Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy; Ordinary Lives in North Korea.
Dieter Dengler, Escape from Laos.
Jared Diamond, Collapse; How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.
Larry Diamond, Squandered Victory; The American Occupation and The Bungled Effort To Bring Democracy To Iraq.
Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her.
Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking.
John Patrick Diggins, Why Niebuhr Now?
Dion DiMucci with Mike Aquilina, Dion: The Wanderer Talks Truth; Stories, Humor & Music.
David Herbert Donald, Lincoln.
John Dougill, In Search of Japan's Hidden Christians; A Story of Suppression, Secrecy and Survival.
David R. Dow, Things I've Learned From Dying; A Book About Life.
John Drury, Music at Midnight; The Life and Poetry of George Herbert.
Eamon Duffy
- Marking the Hours; English People and Their Prayers, 1240–1570.
- Ten Popes Who Shook the World.
Terry Eagleton, Reason, Faith, and Revolution; Reflections on the God Debate.
William Easterly, The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (guest review by Julie Schaffner, Visiting Associate Professor of International Economics in the Fletcher School at Tufts University).
Elaine Howard Ecklund, Science vs. Religion; What Scientists Really Think.
William Edgar, Reasons of the Heart; Recovering Christian Persuasion (guest review by Ray Cowan).
Dave Eggers
- The Circle.
- A Hologram for the King.
- Zeitoun.
Bart D. Ehrman and Zlatko Plese, The Apocryphal Gospels; Texts and Translations
Peter Eichstaedt, Consuming the Congo; War and Conflict Minerals in The World's Deadliest Place.
Mohamed ElBaradei, The Age of Deception; Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times.
Deborah Ellis, Children of War; Voices of Iraqi Refugees.
Daniel Ellsberg, Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers.
Will Ellsworth-Jones, Banksy: The Man Behind the Wall.
Jacques Ellul and Patrick Troude-Chastenet, Jacques Ellul on Politics, Technology and Christianity.
Helen Epstein, The Invisible Cure; Africa, the West, and the Fight Against AIDS.
Evagrius of Ponticus, The Praktikos and Chapters on Prayer.
Anthony Everitt, Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome.
Paul Farmer, Pathologies of Power; Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor.
Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering; Death and the American Civil War.
Patrick Leigh Fermor, A Time to Keep Silence.
Lori Anne Ferrell, The Bible and the People.
Tina Fey, Bossypants
Dexter Filkins, The Forever War.
David Finkel, Thank You For Your Service.
Hans Conrad Fischer, Johann Sebastian Bach; His Life in Pictures and Documents, with CD.
Suzanne Woods Fisher, Amish Peace: Simple Wisdom for a Complicated World.
Tim Flannery, The Weather Makers; How Man is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth.
Jonathan Foer, Eating Animals.
Richard Wightman Fox, Jesus in America: Personal Savior, Cultural Hero, National Obsession.
Philip L. Fradkin, Wallace Stegner and the American West.
Pope Francis, The Church of Mercy; A Vision for the Church.
Harry Frankfurt, On Bullshit.
Paula Fredriksen, Sin: The Early History of an Idea.
Charles Freeman, Holy Bones, Holy Dust; How Relics Shaped the History of Medieval Europe.
Donna Freitas, The End of Sex: How Hookup Culture is Leaving a Generation Unhappy, Sexually Unfulfilled, and Confused About Intimacy.
James Frey, A Million Little Pieces.
George Friedman, The Next 100 Years; A Forecast for the 21st Century.
Thomas L. Friedman
- Hot, Flat, and Crowded; Why We Need a Green Revolution —and How It Can Renew America.

The World is Flat; A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century.

Paul Froese and Christopher Bader, America’s Four Gods: What We Say About God — and What That Says About Us
Amy Frykholm, Julian of Norwich, A Contemplative Biography.
Francis Fukuyama
- America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy.
- Our Posthuman Future; Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution.
Alexandra Fuller, Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness.
Peter W. Galbraith, Unintended Consequences; How War in Iraq Strengthened America's Enemies.
Nora Gallagher
- Practicing Resurrection; A Memoir of Work, Doubt, Discernment, and Moments of Grace.
- Things Seen and Unseen; A Year Lived in Faith.
Joakim Garff, Soren Kierkegaard; A Biography.
Becky Garrison, Red and Blue God, Black and Blue Church; Eyewitness Accounts of How American Churches Are Hijacking Jesus, Bagging the Beatitudes, and Worshipping the Almighty Dollar.
Edwina Gateley,
- Soul Whispers.
- There Was No Path, So I Trod One.
Atul Gawande
- Being Mortal; Medicine and What Matters in the End.

The Checklist Manifesto; How to Get Things Right.

Leymah Gbowee, with Carol Mithers, Mighty Be Our Powers, A Memoir: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War
Gary Geddes, Drink the Bitter Root: A Search for Justice and Healing in Africa.
Rob Gieselmann, A Walk Through The Churchyard; Toward a Spirituality of Christian Death.
Dr. Glenn W. Geelhoed, with Patricia Edmonds, Gifts from the Poor; What the World's Patients Taught One Doctor About Healing
David W. Gill, Doing Right: Practicing Ethical Principles.
Owen Gingerich, God's Universe.
Peter H. Gleick, Bottled and Sold; The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water.
Peter Godwin, The Fear; Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe.
Mitchell Gold, editor, with Mindy Drucker, Crisis: 40 Stories Revealing the Personal, Social, and Religious Pain and Trauma of Growing Up Gay in America.
Michelle Goldberg, Kingdom Coming; The Rise of Christian Nationalism.
Lorrie Goldensohn, editor, American War Poetry; An Anthology.
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Worse Than War; Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity.
Warren Goldstein, William Sloane Coffin, Jr., A Holy Impatience.
Brad Gooch, Flannery; A Life of Flannery O'Connor.
Mary Gordon, Reading Jesus; A Writer's Encounter with the Gospels.
Raymond G. Gordon, Jr., ed., Ethnologue: Languages of the World.
Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families; Stories From Rwanda.
Andrew Greeley, Jesus; A Meditation on His Stories and His Relationships with Women.
Paul Greenberg, Four Fish; The Future of the Last Wild Food.
Stephen Greenblatt, Will in the World; How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare.
Melissa Fay Greene, There Is No Me Without You: One Woman’s Odyssey to Rescue Africa’s Children.
Kathryn Greene-McCreight, Darkness Is My Only Companion; A Christian Response to Mental Illness.
Jeffrey P. Greenman, Timothy Larsen, and Stephen R. Spencer, eds., The Sermon on the Mount Through the Centuries: From the Early Church to John Paul II (guest review by Ray Cowan).
Gregory of Nyssa, The Life of Moses.
Michael Griffin and Jennie Weiss Block, eds., In the Company of the Poor; Conversations with Dr. Paul Farmer and Fr. Gustavo Gutiérrez.
Paul C. Gutjahr, The Book of Mormon, A Biography.
Richard N. Haass, Foreign Policy Begins at Home; The Case for Putting America's House in Order.
Adam Hamilton,
- Making Sense of the Bible; Rediscovering the Power of Scripture Today.
- Seeing Gray in a World of Black and White.
Thomas D. Hamm, Quaker Writings; An Anthology, 1650-1920.
Hank Haney, The Big Miss; My Years Coaching Tiger Woods.
Ron Hansen, Exiles.
Blaine Harden, Escape From Camp 14; One Man's Remarkable Odyssey From North Korea to Freedom in the West.
Paul Harding, Tinkers.
Sam Harris
- The End of Faith; Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason.
- Letter to a Christian Nation
Stanley Hauerwas
- Cross-Shattered Christ; Meditations on the Seven Last Words.
- Living Gently in a Violent World; The Prophetic Witness of Weakness.
- Matthew; Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible.
Chris Hedges
- I Don't Believe in Atheists.
- Empire of Illusion; The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle.

Stephane Hessel, Time for Outrage: Indignez-vous!
Douglas A. Hicks, Money Enough; Everyday Practices for Living Faithfully in the Global Economy.
Naoki Higashida, The Reason I Jump; The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy With Autism.
Robert Hilburn, Johnny Cash: The Life.
Jonathan Hill, What Has Christianity Ever Done For Us?
Joshua Key as told to Lawrence Hill, The Deserter's Tale; The Story of an Ordinary Soldier Who Walked Away from the War in Iraq.
Christopher Hitchens
- God Is Not Great; How Religion Poisons Everything.
- Mortality.
J. Allan Hobson, Dreaming; An Introduction to the Science of Sleep.
Adam Hochschild, Bury the Chains; Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves.
Jennifer L. Holberg, ed., Shouts and Whispers; Twenty-One Writers Speak About Their Writing and Their Faith.
Mark Holborn and Hilary Roberts, The Great War; A Photographic Narrative.
Jay Hopler and Kimberly Johnson, editors, Before the Door of God; An Anthology of Devotional Poetry.
Roger Housden, Seven Sins for a Life Worth Living.
James M. Houston, Joyful Exiles; Life in Christ on the Dangerous Edge of Things.
Harlan Hubbard, The Woodcuts of Harlan Hubbard, with a foreword by Wendell Berry.
Gwen Ifill, The Breakthrough; Politics and Race in the Age of Obama.
Robert Inchausti, Subversive Orthodoxy; Outlaws, Revolutionaries, and Other Christians in Disguise.
Walter Isaacson
- Benjamin Franklin; An American Life.
- Steve Jobs
Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty, Eleven Rings; The Soul of Success.
Alan Jacobs
- The Book of Common Prayer, A Biography.
- The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction.
Max Jammer, Einstein and Religion.
Rhoda Janzen, Mennonite in a Little Black Dress; A Memoir of Going Home.
Jeff Jarvis, What Would Google Do?
Philip Jenkins
- Laying Down the Sword; Why We Can't Ignore The Bible's Violent Verses.
- The Lost History of Christianity; The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia — and How It Died
- The New Faces of Christianity; Believing the Bible in the Global South.
- The Next Christendom; The Coming of Global Christianity.
Chalmers Johnson
- Blowback; The Costs and Consequences of American Empire.
- Dismantling the Empire; America's Last Best Hope.
- Nemesis; The Last Days of the American Republic.
- The Sorrows of Empire; Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic.
Paul Johnson

Robert Johnston, Useless Beauty; Ecclesiastes through the Lens of Contemporary Film.
Tony Jones, The New Christians; Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier.
Mildred Armstrong Kalish, Little Heathens; Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression.
Agnes Fallah Kamara-Umunna and Emily Holland, And Still Peace Did Not Come: A Memoir of Reconciliation
Robert D. Kaplan
- The Revenge of Geography; What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate.
- Surrender or Starve; Travels in Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, and Eritrea.
- Warrior Politics; Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos.
Mary Karr, Lit: A Memoir.
Rodolphe Kasser, Marvin Meyer, and Gregor Wurst, editors, with additional commentary by Bart D. Ehrman, The Gospel of Judas.
David A. Kessler, The End of Overeating; Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite.
Tracy Kidder
- Mountains Beyond Mountains; The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Change the World.
- Strength in What Remains.
Tracy Kidder and Richard Todd, Good Prose: The Art of Non-Fiction.
Charles Kimball, When Religion Becomes Evil.
Michael Kimmelman, The Accidental Masterpiece; On the Art of Life and Vice Versa.
Russell King, et al., People on the Move; An Atlas of Migration.
Barbara Kingsolver
- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life.
- Flight Behavior.
David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons, UnChristian; What a New Generation Really Thinks About Christianity.
Stephen Kinzer, Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq.
Mary-Ann Kirkby, I Am Hutterite.
Philip Kitcher, Life After Faith; The Case for Secular Humanism.
Phil Klay, Redeployment.
William W. Klein, Become What You Are; Spiritual Formation According to the Sermon on the Mount.
Jennifer Wright Knust, Unprotected Texts; The Bible's Surprising Contradictions About Sex and Desire.
Woodeene Koenig-Bricker, Ten Commandments for the Environment; Pope Benedict XVI Speaks Out for Creation and Justice.
David Koker, At the Edge of the Abyss; A Concentration Camp Diary, 1943–1944.
Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction; An Unnatural History.
Brian Kolodiejchuk, ed., Mother Teresa; Come Be My Light; The Private Writings of the "Saint of Calcutta".
Jonathan Kozol, Fire in the Ashes; Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America.
Jon Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven; A Story of Violent Faith.
Peter Kramer, Against Depression.
Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, Half the Sky; Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide.
David Kuo, Tempting Faith; An Inside Story of Political Seduction.
Anne Lamott
- Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essentials of Prayer.
- Imperfect Birds: A Novel.

Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith.

Brent Landau, translation and introduction, Revelation of the Magi.
Jaron Lanier
- Who Owns the Future?
- You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto.
Eric Lax, Faith, Interrupted: A Spiritual Journey.
Peter Leithart, 1&2 Kings; Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible.
Matthew Levering, Ezra and Nehemiah; Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible.
Denise Levertov
- Collected Poems.
- The Stream and the Sapphire; Selected Poems on Religious Themes.
Madeline Levine, The Price of Privilege; How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids.
Michael Lewis, The Big Short; Inside the Doomsday Machine.
Gordon Livingston, M.D., Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart – Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now.
Mario Livio
- Brilliant Blunders; From Darwin to Einstein — Colossal Mistakes By Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe .

Is God a Mathematician?

Charlie Louvin with Benjamin Whitmer, Satan is Real: The Ballad of the Louvin Brothers.
Roger Lowenstein, The End of Wall Street.
Beverly Lowry, Harriet Tubman, A Biography.
John Lukacs, The Legacy of the Second World War.
Wendy Lustbader, Life Gets Better; The Unexpected Pleasures of Growing Older.
Andrea D. Lyon, Angel of Death Row; My Life as a Death Penalty Defense Lawyer.
Gabe Lyons, The Next Christians; The Good News About the End of Christian America. How a New Generation is Restoring the Faith.
Diarmaid MacCulloch
- Christianity, The First Three Thousand Years.
- The Reformation.
- Silence, A Christian History.
Margaret MacMillan, Dangerous Games; The Uses and Abuses of History.
Jonathan Malesic, Secret Faith in the Public Square; An Argument for the Concealment of Christian Identity.
Brennan Manning, A Glimpse of Jesus; The Wisdom of Tenderness; and The Ragamuffin Gospel.
Manning Marable, Malcolm X; A Life of Reinvention.
Karl Marlantes, What It Is Like To Go To War.
George Marsden, A Short Life of Jonathan Edwards.
Charles Marsh, Wayward Christian Soldiers; Freeing the Gospel from Political Captivity.
Barnaby Martin, Hanging Man; The Arrest of Ai Weiwei.
Martin Marty
- The Christian World; A Global History.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer's "Letters and Papers From Prison": A Biography
- Martin Luther.
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, The Face on Your Plate; The Truth About Food.
D.T. Max, Every Love Story Is A Ghost Story; A Life of David Foster Wallace.
Jane Mayer, The Dark Side; The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals.
Cormac McCarthy, The Road.
Tori Murden McClure, A Pearl in the Storm; How I Found My Heart in the Middle of the Ocean.
Frank McCourt, Teacher Man; A Memoir.
Donald McCullough, The Consolations of Imperfection; Learning to Appreciate Life’s Limitations.
Christopher McDougall, Born to Run; A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen.
Alice McDermott, Someone: A Novel.
Ian McEwan, The Children Act; A Novel.
David McGlynn, A Door in the Ocean; A Memoir.
George McGovern and William R. Polk, Out of Iraq; A Practical Plan for Withdrawal Now.
Alister McGrath, Christianity's Dangerous Idea; The Protestant Revolution—A History from the Sixteenth Century to the Twenty-First.
Bill McKibben
- Deep Economy; The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future.
- Eaarth; Making a Life on a Tough New Planet.
- Oil and Honey; The Education of an Unlikely Activist.
Scot McKnight, The Jesus Creed; Loving God, Loving Others.
Brian McLaren,
- Finding Our Way Again; The Return of the Ancient Christian Practices.

A Generous Orthodoxy.

Tracie McMillan, The American Way of Eating.
Larry McMurtry, The Last Kind Words Saloon.
James M. McPherson, Abraham Lincoln.
Jon Meacham

Andrew Meredith, The Removers: A Memoir.
Martin Meredith, The Fate of Africa; From the Hopes of Freedom to the Heart of Despair: A History of 50 Years of Independence.
Robyn Meredith, The Elephant and the Dragon; The Rise of India and China and What It Means for All of Us.
Thomas Merton, The Inner Experience; Notes on Contemplation.
Donald E. Messer, Breaking the Conspiracy of Silence; Christian Churches and the Global AIDS Crisis.
Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
Sara Miles
- City of God; Faith in the Streets.
- Jesus Freak; Feeding, Healing, Raising the Dead.

Take this Bread; A Radical Conversion.

Calvin Miller, The Path of Celtic Prayer; An Ancient Way to Everyday Joy.
Kenneth Miller, Finding Darwin's God.
Evgeny Morozov, To Save Everything, Click Here; The Folly of Technological Solutionism.
Edmund Morris, Beethoven; The Universal Composer.
Greg Mortenson, Stones Into Schools; Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Michael Moss, Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us.
Richard Mouw
- The Smell of Sawdust; What Evangelicals Can Learn From Their Fundamentalist Heritage.
- Uncommon Decency; Christian Civility in an Uncivil World.
Malcolm Muggeridge, Something Beautiful for God; The Classic Account of Mother Teresa's Journey Into Compassion.
Lydia Munn and Heather Munn, How Huge the Night
Cullen Murphy
- Are We Rome? The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America.
- God's Jury; The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World.
Les Murray, Killing the Black Dog, A Memoir of Depression
Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran; A Memoir in Books.
National Academies Press, Science and Creationism: A View From the National Academy of Sciences.
National Academy of Sciences and Institute of Medicine, Science, Evolution, and Creationism.
Edoardo Nesi, Story of My People.
Richard John Neuhaus, American Babylon: Notes of a Christian Exile.
Mark A. Noll, The Civil War as a Theological Crisis.
Kathleen Norris, Acedia and Me; A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life.
Henri Nouwen, In the Name of Jesus; Reflections on Christian Leadership.
Ronald L. Numbers, editor, Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths About Science and Religion.
Flannery O'Connor, A Prayer Journal.
Robert O'Harrow, Jr., No Place to Hide.
Mary Oliver
- Swan; Poems and Prose Poems.
- Thirst.
- A Thousand Mornings: Poems.
George Packer, Assassins' Gate; America in Iraq.
Elaine Pagels, Revelations; Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation.
Camille Paglia, Break, Blow, Burn; Camille Paglia Reads Forty-Three of the World's Best Poems.
Palladius, The Lausiac History.
Parker Palmer
- The Active Life; Wisdom for Work, Creativity, and Caring.
- A Hidden Wholeness; The Journey Toward an Undivided Life.
- Let Your Life Speak; Listening for the Voice of Vocation.
Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow, The Last Lecture.
Fred Pearce, Confessions of an Eco-Sinner; Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff.
Jaroslav Pelikan
- Acts; Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible.
- Credo: Historical and Theological Guide to the Creeds and Confessions of Faith in the Christian Tradition.
- Whose Bible Is It? A History of the Scriptures Through the Ages.
Charles Peters, Lyndon B. Johnson.
Eugene Peterson, Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places; A Conversation In Spiritual Theology.
William Pfaff, The Irony of Manifest Destiny; The Tragedy of America's Foreign Policy.
Karl Pillemer, 30 Lessons for Living; Tried and True Advice from the Wisest Americans.
Mary Pipher, The Green Boat; Reviving Ourselves in Our Capsized Culture.
Sylvia Plath, Ariel, the Restored Edition; A Facsimilie of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement.
John Polkinghorne, Science and Religion in Quest of Truth.
Michael Pollan
- Food Rules; An Eater's Manual.
- In Defense of Food; An Eater's Manifesto.
Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business.
Samantha Power, A Problem From Hell; America and the Age of Genocide.
Kevin Powers, The Yellow Birds; A Novel.
Vijay Prashad, The Darker Nations; A People's History of the Third World.
Reynolds Price, Letter to a Godchild (Concerning Faith).
Stephen Prothero
- American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon.
- God is Not One; The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World — and Why Their Differences Matter.
Mitri Raheb, Faith in the Face of Empire; The Bible Through Palestinian Eyes.
Thom S. Rainer and Eric Geiger, Simple Church; Returning to God's Process for Making Disciples.
Ethan Rarick, Desperate Passage; The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West.
Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI, Jesus of Nazareth.
Erik Reece, An American Gospel; On Family, History, and the Kingdom of God.
David S. Reynolds, Mightier Than the Sword; "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and the Battle for America
Anne Rice,
- Called Out of Darkness; A Spiritual Confession.
- Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt.
Mark Richard, House of Prayer No. 2; A Writer's Journey Home
Jana Riess, Flunking Sainthood; A Year of Breaking the Sabbath, Forgetting to Pray, and Still Loving My Neighbor.
Rainer Maria Rilke, Pictures of God; Rilke's Religious Poetry.
Eugene Robinson, Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America.
Gene Robinson, In the Eye of the Storm; Swept to the Center By God.
Marilynne Robinson
- Absence of Mind; The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self
- Gilead.
- Home.
- Lila.
- When I Was a Child I Read Books: Essays.
Richard Rodriguez, Darling; A Spiritual Autobiography.
Peter Rogers and Susan Leal, Running Out of Water: The Looming Crisis and Solutions to Conserve Our Most Precious Resource.
David Rohde, Beyond War; Reimagining American Influence in a New Middle East.
Richard Rohr
- Eager to Love; The Alternative Way of Francis of Assisi.
- Falling Upward; A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life.
Kevin Roose, The Unlikely Disciple; A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University.
Roger Rosenblatt, Unless It Moves the Human Heart; The Craft and Art of Writing.
Philip Roth, Nemesis.
Joan Roughgarden, Evolution and Christian Faith; Reflections of an Evolutionary Biologist.
Charles Henry Rowell, editor, Angles of Ascent; A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry.
Norman Russell, tr., The Lives of the Desert Fathers (Historia Monachorum in Aegypto).
Jeffrey Sachs
- Common Wealth; Economics for a Crowded Planet.

The End of Poverty; Economic Possibilities for Our Time.

Oliver Sacks
- The Mind's Eye

Musicophilia; Tales of Music and the Brain.

Carl Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience; A Personal View of the Search for God.
Michael J. Sandel, What Money Can't Buy; The Moral Limits of Markets.
Philippe Sands, Torture Team; Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values.
Stephen Sangirardi, Life on the Planet: 7 Stories.
Lamin Sanneh, Whose Religion is Christianity?The Gospel Beyond the West.
Jason Brian Santos, A Community Called Taizé; A Story of Prayer, Worship and Reconciliation.
Michael L. Satlow, How the Bible Became Holy.
George Saunders, Tenth of December: Stories.
Dorothy Sayers, Are Women Human?
John Schwartz, Oddly Normal; One Family's Struggle to Help Their Teenage Son Come to Terms with His Sexuality.
Åsne Seierstad, trans. by Ingrid Christopherson, The Bookseller of Kabul.
Amartya Sen, Identity and Violence; The Illusion of Destiny.
Sarah Sentilles, Breaking Up With God; A Love Story.
Anthony Shadid, Night Draws Near; Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War.
Don Share and Christian Wiman, The Open Door: 100 Poems, 100 Years of Poetry Magazine.
Ari Shavit, My Promised Land; The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel.
David Shipler, The Working Poor; Invisible in America.
Robert C. Sibley, The Way of the Stars; Journeys on the Camino de Santiago.
Ronald J. Sider
- The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience; Why Are Christians Living Just Like the Rest of the World?
- The Scandal of Evangelical Politics.
Michael Sims, The Story of Charlotte's Web; E.B. White's Eccentric Life in Nature and the Birth of an American Classic
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, This Child Will Be Great.
Lewis B. Smedes, My God and I; A Spiritual Memoir.
Christian Smith, How to Go from Being a Good Evangelical to a Committed Catholic in Ninety-Five Difficult Steps
Christian Smith and Melinda Lundquist Denton, Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers.
David Livingstone Smith, The Most Dangerous Animal; Human Nature and the Origins of War.
Huston Smith, The Soul of Christianity; Restoring the Great Tradition.
Huston Smith, with Jeffrey Paine, Tales of Wonder, Adventures Chasing the Divine: An Autobiography.
Sonia Sotomayor, My Beloved World.
Randy J. Sparks, Where The Negroes Are Masters; An African Port in the Era of the Slave Trade.
Jeffrey Spier, editor, Picturing the Bible; The Earliest Christian Art.
Frank Anthony Spina, The Faith of the Outsider; Exclusion and Inclusion in the Biblical Story.
John Shelby Spong, The Sins of Scripture; Exposing the Bible's Texts of Hate to Reveal the God of Love.
Karen Stabiner, The Empty Nest; 31 Parents Tell the Truth About Relationships, Love, and Freedom After the Kids Fly the Coop.
Jason K. Stearns, Dancing in the Glory of Monsters; The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa.
Brian Steidle, The Devil Came on Horseback; Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur.
Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes, The Three Trillion Dollar War; The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict.
William J. Stuntz, The Collapse of American Criminal Justice.
Victoria Sweet, God's Hotel; A Doctor, A Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine.
Anthony Swofford, Jarhead; A Marine’s Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles.
Barbara Brown Taylor
- An Altar in the World; A Geography of Faith.
- Learning to Walk in the Dark.

Leaving Church; A Memoir of Faith.

George Tenet, At the Center of the Storm; My Years at the CIA.
Jeanne Theoharis, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks.
Anne Thompson, The $11 Billion Year; From Sundance to the Oscars, An Inside Look at the Changing Hollywood System.
Augustine Thompson, Francis of Assisi; A New Biography.
Gabriel Thompson, Working in the Shadows; A Year of Doing the Jobs [Most] Americans Won't Do.
Phyllis Tickle, The Great Emergence; How Christianity is Changing and Why.
Jeffrey Toobin, The Nine; Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court.
Dang Thuy Tram, Last Night I Dreamed of Peace; The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram.
Daniel J. Treier, Introducing the Theological Interpretation of Scripture: Recovering a Christian Practice.
Desmond Tutu and Mpho Tutu, Made for Goodness, And Why This Makes All the Difference.
Brad Tyer, Opportunity, Montana: Big Copper, Bad Water, and The Burial of an American Landscape.
Christopher Tyerman, God's War; A New History of the Crusades.
Abraham Verghese, My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story of a Town and Its People in the Age of AIDS.
Dan O. Via and Robert A.J. Gagnon, Homosexuality and the Bible; Two Views.
Gore Vidal, Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace; How We Got To Be So Hated.
Ed Viesturs, with David Roberts, No Shortcuts to the Top; Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks.
Miroslav Volf, A Public Faith; How Followers of Christ Should Serve the Common Good
Grant Wacker
- America's Pastor; Billy Graham and the Shaping of a Nation.
- Heaven Below; Early Pentecostals and American Culture.
Alice Walker, The World Will Follow Joy; Turning Madness Into Flowers.
David Foster Wallace
- Both Flesh and Not; Essays.
- Infinite Jest.
Jim Wallis, Gods's Politics; Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It; A New Vision for Faith and Politics in America.
Michael Walzer, In God's Shadow; Politics in the Hebrew Bible.
Benedicta Ward (tr.), The Sayings of the Desert Fathers; The Alphabetical Collection.
Rick Warren, The Purpose-Driven Life; What On Earth Am I Here For?.
Karl Weber, editor, Waiting for Superman; How We Can Save America's Failing Public Schools.
Helga Weiss, Helga's Diary; A Young Girl's Account of Life in a Concentration Camp.
Mel White, Stranger at the Gate; To Be Gay and Christian in America.
Elie Wiesel
- Open Heart.
- Rashi.
Amy Wilentz, Farewell, Fred Voodoo; A Letter From Haiti.
Robert Louis Wilken
- The Christians as the Romans Saw Them.
- The Spirit of Early Christian Thought; Seeking the Face of God.
Steve Wilkens and Don Thorsen, Everything You Know About Evangelicals Is Wrong (Well, Almost Everything); An Insider's Look at Myths & Realities (guest review by Ray Cowan).
Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns; The Epic Story of America's Great Migration.
Cecil Williams and Janice Mirikitani, Beyond the Impossible.
Rowan Williams
- Being Christian: Baptism, Bible, Eucharist, Prayer.
- Tokens of Trust; An Introduction to Christian Belief.

Where God Happens; Discovering Christ in One Another.

Garry Wills
- Augustine's "Confessions": A Biography.
- Bomb Power; The Modern Presidency and the National Security State.
- Font of Life; Ambrose, Augustine, and the Mystery of Baptism.
- The Future of the Catholic Church with Pope Francis.
- Outside Looking In; Adventures of an Observer
- What Jesus Meant.
- What Paul Meant.
- What The Gospels Meant.
- Why Priests? A Failed Tradition.
Diane Wilson, Holy Roller; Growing Up in the Church of Knock Down Drag Out; Or, How I Quit Loving a Blue-Eyed Jesus.
Edward O. Wilson
- The Creation; An Appeal to Save Life on Earth.
- The Meaning of Human Existence.
Christian Wiman
- My Bright Abyss; Meditation of a Modern Believer.
- Once in the West: Poems.
Lauren Winner, Wearing God: Clothing, Laughter, Fire, and Other Overlooked Ways of Meeting God.
Ben Witherington III, The Gospel Code; Novel Claims About Jesus, Mary Magdalene and Da Vinci.
World Resources Institute, Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Synthesis. A Report of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment.
Herman Wouk, The Language God Talks; On Science and Religion.
Jonathan Wright, Heretics; The Creation of Christianity from the Gnostics to the Modern Church.
N.T. Wright, Simply Christian; Why Christianity Makes Sense.
Bill Wylie-Kellermann, ed., William Stringfellow, Essential Writings.
Neil Young, Waging Heavy Peace.
Wm. Paul Young, in collaboration with Wayne Jacobsen and Brad Cummings, The Shack; Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity.
Malala Yousafzai, with Christina Lamb, I am Malala; The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban.
Muhammad Yunus
- Banker to the Poor; Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty.
- Creating a World Without Poverty; Social Business and the Future of Capitalism.
Brian Zahnd, A Farewell to Mars; An Evangelical Pastor's Journey Toward the Biblical Gospel of Peace.
Fareed Zakaria
- The Future of Freedom; Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad.
- The Post-American World.
Elizabeth Zelensky and Lela Gilbert, Windows to Heaven; Introducing Icons to Protestants and Catholics.
Howard Zinn
- The Bomb.
- Foreword by Matthew Rothschild, The Historic Unfulfilled Promise.
- A People's History of the United States, 1492–Present.
General Tony Zinni and Tony Koltz, The Battle for Peace; A Frontline Vision of America's Power and Purpose.

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