Episode 71: Our Favorite Books of 2023!

The podcast crew (Jen, Chris & Joel) is joined once again by Ashley Hales for our favorite topic: the books we enjoyed the most this year! ERB Contributors from 2023 also offer their suggestions throughout, so we cover a wide, wide range of titles. Enjoy this veritable feast of reading suggestions to keep you occupied until next year!Books Mentioned in this Episode:If you’d like to order any of the following books, we encourage you to do so from Hearts and Minds Books(An independent bookstore in Dallastown, PA, run by Byron and Beth Borger) Remaking the World: How 1776 Created the Post-Christian West by Andrew WilsonDemon Copperhead by Barbara KingsolverDavid Copperfield by Charles DickensHow to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told by Harrison Scott KeyStolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention - And How to Think Deeply Again by Johann HariAll My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir by Beth MooreYou Could Make this Place Beautiful: A Memoir by Maggie SmithThe Kingdom, The Power and the Glory: American Evangelicalism in an Age of Extremism by Tim AlbertaDisobedient Women: How a Small Group of Faithful Women Exposed Abuse, Brought Down Pastors, and Ignited an Evangelical Reckoning by Sarah StankorbFoster by Claire KeeganThese Walls are Starting to Glow (chapbook) by Karen Bjork KubinBox Office Gospel: Poems by Marissa GloverThe Church in an Age of Secular Mysticisms: Why Spiritualities Without God Fail to Transform Us by Andrew RootThe Other Evangelicals: A Story of Liberal, Black, Progressive, Feminist and Gay Christians - And the Movement That Pushed Them Out by Isaac SharpThe Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis by Karen Swallow PriorLoving Disagreement: Fighting for Community Through the Fruit of the Spirit by Matt Mikalatos and Kathy KhangChristian Poetry in America Since 1940: An Anthology edited by Micah Mattix and Sally ThomasRivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith and Migration by Alejandro OlivaSanctuary and Subjectivity: Thinking Theologically about Whiteness and Sanctuary Movements by Michael WoolfThe Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism by Daniel HummelThe Scandal of Leadership by J.R. WoodwardJoel's Interview with JR WoodwardZero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair by Christian WimanThe Crosswicks Journals by Madeliene L'EngleThe Sayings and Stories of the Desert Fathers and Mothers (2 Volume Set) translated by Tim VivianWhere God Happens: Discovering Christ in One Another by Rowan WilliamsChristianity and Critical Race Theory: A Faithful and Constructive Conversation by Robert Chao Romero and Jeff LiouChrist Among the Classes: The Rich, The Poor and the Mission of the Church by Al TizonOvercoming Apathy: Gospel Hope for those Who Struggle to Care by Uche Anizor