Category: book reviews
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Five Favorite Books from 2019
I’m not sure there’s such a thing as a bad year of reading, but if there is, this wasn’t it. I got to review some very interesting books: The 21 (see below), Passionate for Justice, and The Color of Life for The Englewood Review of Books and Whole and Reconciled for Missio Alliance which, along…
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Review of Whole and Reconciled
I recently reviewed Al Tizon’s new book, Whole and Reconciled for Missio Alliance. One of the defining and disappointing characteristics of western Christianity has been our instinct to bifurcate the church’s mission. Consider, for example, the countless ways we find to debate whether evangelism or justice should be our priority. Is it the church’s primary…
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The Color of Life
I recently reviewed Cara Meredith’s new book, The Color of Life, for The Englewood Review of Books. On October 1, 1962, James Meredith enrolled in the University of Mississippi for his final year of college. What should have been a straightforward process involving applications and recommendations was anything but easy. Riots broke out on campus…
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Five Favorite Books of 2018
Once again it’s been tough to narrow down the books I read and enjoyed this year to just five. And as much as I recommend the books below, the entire exercise is pretty subjective; there are some terrific books that I’m passing over here. For example, He Held Radical Light by Christian Wiman is every…
David W. Swanson 