Joel hosted a freewheeling conversation with Chris Smith (Founding Editor of ERB), Lindsey Cornett (Managing Editor of Englewood Press) and Jen Pollock Michel (author, writer, former ERB podcast host) all about our favorite books from 2024. We discuss our personal perspectives on how to choose 'favorite' books, and we talk about a wide range of titles, including fiction, poetry and non-fiction that we read this year. There's sure to be something in here for every type of reader. Enjoy!
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)
- The Shape of Our Lives: A Field Guide for Congregational Formation by Phillip Kenneson, Debra Murphy, Jenny Williams, Stephen Fowl & James Lewis
- The Feast by Margaret Kennedy
- Hello Beautiful: A Novel by Ann Napolitano
- Virgil Wander: A Novel by Leif Enger
- I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger
- Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
- The Bright Sword: A Novel of King Arthur by Lev Grossman
- Lamb of the Free: Recovering the Varied Sacrificial Understandings of Jesus' Death by Andrew Remington Rillera
- Collected Poems by Jane Kenyon
- An Intimate Good: A Skeptical Christian Mystic in Conversation with Teresa of Avila by Laurel Matthewson
- The Interior Castle by St. Teresa of Avila
- Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
- The Understory: An Invitation to Rootedness and Resilience from the Forest Floor by Lore Ferguson Wilbert
- Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art by Madeleine L'Engle
- The Genesis Trilogy by Madeleine L'Engle
- Democracy and Solidarity: On the Cultural Roots of America's Political Crisis by James Davison Hunter
- All Things Are Full of Gods: The Mysteries of Mind and Life by David Bentley Hart
- The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings by Philip and Carol Zaleski
- The Mythmakers: The Remarkable Fellowship of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien by John Hendrix
- Go and Do Likewise by John Hendrix
- Miracle Man by John Hendrix
- The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler by John Hendrix
- Fully Alive: Tending to the Soul in Turbulent Times by Elizabeth Oldfield
- Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel by Anthony Doerr
- Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power and Justice in an American Church by Eliza Griswold
- The Labors of Hercules Beal by Gary Schmidt
- The Book of Belonging: Bible Stories for Kind and Contemplative Kids by Mariko Clark and Rachel Eleanor
- Slow Church: Cultivating Community in the Patient Way of Jesus by Chris Smith and John Pattison
- Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis