Episode 71: Our Favorite Books of 2023!

The podcast crew (Jen, Chris & Joel) is joined once again by Ashley Hales for our favorite topic: the books we enjoyed the most this year! ERB Contributors from 2023 also offer their suggestions throughout, so we cover a wide, wide range of titles. Enjoy this veritable feast of reading suggestions to keep you occupied until next year!

Books Mentioned in this Episode:

If you’d like to order any of the following books, we encourage you to do so from Hearts and Minds Books(An independent bookstore in Dallastown, PA, run by Byron and Beth Borger) 

• Remaking the World: How 1776 Created the Post-Christian West by Andrew Wilson
• Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
• David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
• How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told by Harrison Scott Key
• Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention - And How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari
• All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir by Beth Moore
• You Could Make this Place Beautiful: A Memoir by Maggie Smith
• The Kingdom, The Power and the Glory: American Evangelicalism in an Age of Extremism by Tim Alberta
• Disobedient Women: How a Small Group of Faithful Women Exposed Abuse, Brought Down Pastors, and Ignited an Evangelical Reckoning by Sarah Stankorb
• Foster by Claire Keegan
• These Walls are Starting to Glow (chapbook) by Karen Bjork Kubin
• Box Office Gospel: Poems by Marissa Glover
• The Church in an Age of Secular Mysticisms: Why Spiritualities Without God Fail to Transform Us by Andrew Root
• The Other Evangelicals: A Story of Liberal, Black, Progressive, Feminist and Gay Christians - And the Movement That Pushed Them Out by Isaac Sharp
• The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis by Karen Swallow Prior
• Loving Disagreement: Fighting for Community Through the Fruit of the Spirit by Matt Mikalatos and Kathy Khang
• Christian Poetry in America Since 1940: An Anthology edited by Micah Mattix and Sally Thomas
• Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith and Migration by Alejandro Oliva
• Sanctuary and Subjectivity: Thinking Theologically about Whiteness and Sanctuary Movements by Michael Woolf
• The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism by Daniel Hummel
• The Scandal of Leadership by J.R. Woodward
• Joel's Interview with JR Woodward
• Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair by Christian Wiman
• The Crosswicks Journals by Madeliene L'Engle
• The Sayings and Stories of the Desert Fathers and Mothers (2 Volume Set) translated by Tim Vivian
• Where God Happens: Discovering Christ in One Another by Rowan Williams
• Christianity and Critical Race Theory: A Faithful and Constructive Conversation by Robert Chao Romero and Jeff Liou
• Christ Among the Classes: The Rich, The Poor and the Mission of the Church by Al Tizon
• Overcoming Apathy: Gospel Hope for those Who Struggle to Care by Uche Anizor