Reading List (2011)
I also wrote a top 10 books list for 2011.
January:
1. Hannah’s Child: A Theologian’s Memoir
2. Christianity and Contemporary Politics: The Conditions and Possibilites of Faithful Witness
3. The Moral Vision of the New Testament
4. After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory
5. Inferno
6. On the Incarnation
February:
7. The Doors of the Sea: Where Was God in the Tsunami?
8. Purgatorio
9. The Prophetic Imagination
10. Cross-Shattered Christ: Meditations on the Seven Last Words
11. The Inner Experience: Notes on Contemplation
12. The Politics of Jesus
13. Thoughts In Solitude
14.The Brothers Karamazov
March:
15. Meridian
16. A Community of Character: Toward a Constructive Christian Social Ethic
17. Resident Aliens
18. How (Not) to Speak of God
19. The Priestly Kingdom
20. When God is Silent
21. Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World
22. Power and Passion: Six Characters in Search of Resurrection
23. Finally Comes The Poet
24. A Generous Orthodoxy
25. Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
April:
26. The Imitation of Christ
27. Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power
28. Personal Politics
29. Paradiso
30. They Marched Into Sunlight
31. Improvisation: The Drama of Christian Ethics
32. Hipster Christianity: When Church and Cool Collide
33. Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church
34. Torture and Eucharist: Theology, Politics, and the Body of Christ
35. Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons
36. For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy
37. Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion
38. Liturgy and Tradition
39. The Practice of the Presence of God
May:
40. Two Kisses for Maddy: A Memoir of Loss & Love
41. Morning in America
42. Meridian
43. Reflections on the Bible: Human Word and Word of God
44. Girl Meets God: On the Path to a Spiritual Life
45. Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity
June:
46. Living Gently in a Violent World: The Prophetic Witness of Weakness
47. An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith
48. Ethics
49. Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith
50. Introverts in the Church: Finding Our Place in an Extroverted Culture
51. Mudhouse Sabbath: An Invitation to a Life of Spiritual Discipline
52. Bossypants
July:
53. Beyond Charity: The Call to Christian Community Development
54. Jesus Girls: True Tales of Growing Up Female and Evangelical
55. Erasing Hell: What God said about eternity, and the things we made up
56. All My Bones Shake: Seeking a Progressive Path to the Prophetic Voice
57. Mere Discipleship: Radical Christianity in a Rebellious World
58. The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O’Connor
59. Deconstructing Evangelicalism: Conservative Protestantism in the Age of Billy Graham
60. Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions
61. Earthen Vessels: Why Our Bodies Matter to Our Faith
62. Flannery O’Connor and the Christ-Haunted South
63. Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture in America
August:
64. Jesus and Justice: Evangelicals, Race, and American Politics
65. No Sympathy for the Devil: Christian Pop Music and the Transformation of American Evangelicalism 
66. Religious Outsiders and the Making of Americans
67. Millennial Dreams and Apocalyptic Nightmares: The Cold War Origins of Political Evangelicalism 
68. The Orthodox Heretic: And Other Impossible Tales 
69. God Wins: Heaven, Hell, and Why the Good News Is Better than Love Wins
September:
70. With: Reimagining the Way You Relate to God 
71. Quest for the Living God: Mapping Frontiers in the Theology of God
72. Working with Words: On Learning to Speak Christian
73. Close Enough to Hear God Breathe: The Great Story of Divine Intimacy 
74. Flickering Pixels: How Technology Shapes Your Faith 
75. Migrations of the Holy: God, State, and the Political Meaning of the Church 
76. Gilead: A Novel 
77. Catholicism: Christ and the Common Destiny of Man 
October:
78. Preaching and Professing: Sermons by a Teacher Seeking to Proclaim the Gospel
79. The Comedy of Redemption: Christian Faith & Comic Vision in Four American Novelists 
80. Insurrection: To Believe Is Human To Doubt, Divine
81. Finding My Way Home: Pathways to Life and the Spirit
November:
82. Simply Jesus: A New Vision of Who He Was, What He Did, and Why He Matters
83. Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
84. She Who Is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse 
85. Public Faith, A: How Followers of Christ Should Serve the Common Good
86. The Bible Made Impossible: Why Biblicism Is Not a Truly Evangelical Reading of Scripture
December:
87. The Long Loneliness
88. The Cross and the Lynching Tree
89. That Old-Time Religion in Modern America: Evangelical Protestantism in the Twentieth Century (American Ways Series)
90. Berkeley Journal: Jesus and the Street People - A Firsthand Report - Clay Ford
91. The Jesus Movement in America: Accounts of Christian revolutionaries in action - Edward Plowman
92. Jesus People - Duane Pederson
93. The Jesus trip; advent of the Jesus freaks - Lowell Streiker
94. The Jesus People Are Coming - Pat King
95. The Quotable Chesterton: The Wit and Wisdom of G.K. Chesterton
96. One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
97. Judaism in America
98. Catholic Matters: Confusion, Controversy, and the Splendor of Truth
99. The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany
100. The Weight of Glory
