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*** Our Fall 2018 Books Preview!

With the Labor Day weekend upon us, here are the 25
new books that we are most eager to read this fall…



A Response to the CT Review
of Jonathan Merritt’s Book

The Relational Consequences of Sacred Talk
A Response to CHRISTIANITY TODAY’s Review 
(by Tim Muehlhoff ) of Jonathan Merritt’s New Book
Learning to Speak God from Scratch: Why Sacred Words 
Are Vanishing –and How We Can Revive Them
By D.S. Leiter


 

*** 5 Essential Ebook Deals for Church Leaders

( Richard Rohr, Madeleine L'Engle, JRR Tolkien, MORE )




Our Feature Review for this week:
Toward a More Equitable and Racially Just Society.
A Review of Plantation Jesus: Race, Faith and New Way Forward.
by Skot Welch and Rick Wilson (Paperback: Herald Press, 2018) 
Reviewed by Drick Boyd.

Katharine Gerbner – Christian Slavery [Review]

The Roots of Slaveholder Religion.  A Review of Christian Slavery:
Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World 
Katharine Gerbner  (Hardback: U of PA Press, 2018)
Reviewed by Joseph Johnson

Anand Giridharadas – Winners Take All [NPR Interview]

This fascinating and provocative new book is
one of the best new book releases of this week:
A Snippet of this interview: “A lot of well-meaning liberals — and ...it hurts to hear this — 
but a lot of well-meaning liberals paved the road for Trump. And they did so in two ways:"

 

In Case You Missed It...

Best New Book Releases –Week of 27 August 2018

Here are a few new book releases from this week that are worth checking out:
Grace Ji-Sun Kim, Jacqueline Woodson, Yuval Harari, Chris Hedges, MORE


 

Here's to energizing reading today!

Chris Smith
Editor, The Englewood Review of Books