At Year’s End - Julie Clawson

So I’m spending the week at my parent’s place in Taos, NM. It’s gorgeous here, but kinda crazy keeping up with the kids in a new environment (not to mention the high altitude). So blogging is going to be slow.

But as the year ends, I thought I’d do one of those year end lists that seem so popular. I have a post up at the Emergent Village blog where I look forward to 2009, but here I want to look back at the books I read this past year. With the arrival of Aidan and the move to Texas, I didn’t read anywhere near as much as I normally do. And there’s a few books on this list that I read something like four times :). Of this list the ones I would most recommend would be Caputo’s What would Jesus Deconstruct and The Great Emergence by Phyllis Tickle.

So here’s my year in books 2008 –

Theology/Church
The Blue Parakeet by Scot McKnight
The Great Emergence by Phyllis Tickle
The Fidelity of Betrayal by Peter Rollins
Finding Our Way Again by Brian McLaren
Jesus: Made in America by Stephen J. Nichols
My Beautiful Idol by Peter Gall
The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs
Speaking of Faith by Krista Tippett
Surprised by Hope by N.T. Wright
The New Christians by Tony Jones
Saving Women from the Church by Susan McLeod-Harrison