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All the Buried Women, Beth Allison Barr and Savannah Locke
Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Mike Cosper, host
Straight White American Jesus: Daniel Miller and Bradley Onishi, hosts
The Bible for Normal People: Peter Enns and Jared Byas, hosts
The Convocation Unscripted, Diana Butler Bass, Kristin Du Mez, Robert P. Jones, and Jemar Tisby, PhD, hosts
The Holy Post: Phil Vischer, Skye Jethani, and Kaitlyn Schiess, hosts
Truce - History of the Christian Church: Chris Staron, host
When the Wolves Came: Evangelicals Resisting Extremism, Ruth Braunstein, host
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Recommended Reading:
Barr, Beth Allison. The Making of Biblical Womanhood. Baker Books, 2021.
Degroat, Chuck. WHEN NARCISSISM COMES to CHURCH : Healing Your Community from Emotional and Spiritual Abuse. S.L., Readhowyouwant, 2021.
Dolnick, Edward. Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party. Simon and Schuster, 6 Aug. 2024.
Du Mez, Kristin Kobes. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation. Liveright Publishing, 2020.
Evans, Rachel Held. Faith Unraveled : How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask Questions. Grand Rapids, Mi, Zondervan, 2014.
---. Searching for Sunday. Thomas Nelson, 2015.
---. Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again. Nelson Books, 2018.
Evans, Rachel Held, and Jeff Chu. Wholehearted Faith. HarperCollins Publishers, 2022.
Gorski, Philip S., et al. The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy. Oxford University Press, 2022.
Grant, Adam. Think Again. Penguin Books, 2021.
Hahn, Steven. Illiberal America: A History. W. W. Norton & Company, 19 Mar. 2024.
Hamilton, Adam. Creed : What Christians Believe and Why : Exploring the Apostles’ Creed. Nashville, Abingdon Press, 2016.
---. When Christians Get It Wrong. Abingdon Press, 2013.
---. Wrestling with Doubt, Finding Faith. Abingdon Press, 2023.
---. Seeing Gray in a World of Black and White: Thoughts on Religion, Morality, and Politics. Abingdon Press, 2008.
---. Making Sense of the Bible: Rediscovering the Power of Scripture Today. HarperOne, 2014.
---. Revival: Faith as Wesley Lived It. Abingdon Press, 2014.
Hatmaker, Jen. Interrupted: When Jesus Wrecks Your Comfortable Christianity. Young Adult Ministry Publishing, 2015.
Kagan, Robert. Rebellion: How Antiliberalism Is Tearing America Apart – Again. Knopf, 2024.
Root, Andrew. Exploding Stars, Dead Dinosaurs, and Zombies: Youth Ministry in the Age of Science. Fortress Press, 2018.
---. Faith Formation in a Secular Age: Responding to the Church’s Obsession with Youthfulness. Baker Academic, 2017.
---. The End of Youth Ministry?: Why Parents Don’t Really Care about Youth Groups and What Youth Workers Should Do about It. Baker Academic, 2020.
Slaughter, Mike, and Karen Perry Smith. Revolutionary Kingdom. Abingdon Press, 2019.
Smith, Michael A. From Christian Fundamentalism to Christian Nationalism: A Primer Detailing the Danger to America. Michael A. Smith, 2024.
Snyder, Timothy. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century. Tim Duggan Books, 2017.
Stanley, Andy. Irresistible: Reclaiming the New That Jesus Unleashed for the World. Zondervan, 2018.
Wingfield, Mark. Honestly: Telling the Truth about the Bible and Ourselves. Fortress Press, 2023.
Wright, N. T. Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church. HarperOne, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2018.
---. Simply Jesus: a New Version of Who He Was, What He Did, Why It Matters. HarperOne, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2018.
---. The Day the Revolution Began: Reconsidering the Meaning of Jesus’s Crucifixion. HarperOne, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2018.
---. Paul: A Biography. HarperOne, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2018.
--- and Michael F. Bird. Jesus and the Powers: Christian Political Witness in an Age of Totalitarian Terror and Dysfunctional Democracies. Zondervan Reflective, 2024.