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Books

Holy Post Library

For those curious about books mentioned and featured on Holy Post Episodes. Here is a list of every book (for the most part) mentioned on the podcast since the inaugural episode

Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

The Bible Story Handbook: The Lost World of Genesis One

The Case for Civility - and why our future depends on it

Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes

Short-Term Missions: an Ethnography of Christian Travel Narrative and Experience

Job (The NIV Application Commentary)

Dr. John Walton

Episode #123

Job (The NIV Application Commentary)

A Manual for Creating Atheists

Dr. Peter Boghossian

Episode #97

A Manual for Creating Atheists

Yawning at Tigers

Churchless: Understanding Today’s Unchurched and How to Connect with Them

The Lost World of Adam and Eve

Confident Pluralism

Sticky Faith

Go: Returning Discipleship to the Front Lines of Faith

Saving the Bible from Ourselves

The Day the Revolution Began: Reconsidering the meaning of Jesus’ Crucifixion

Meeting God in Scripture -A Hands-on Guide to Lectio Divina

The Skeletons in God’s Closet

Public Faith in Action: How to engage with commitment, conviction, and courage

Look: A Practical Guide to Improving your Observational skills

Sing! How Worship Transforms Your Life, Family, and Church

Movies are Prayers

Wingfeather Saga

Andrew Peterson

Episode #282

Wingfeather Saga Boxed Set

Uncomfortable: the awkward and essential challenge of Christian community

Struck: one Christian’s reflections on encountering death

One Blood: parting words to the church on race

Learning to Speak God from Scratch

Agents of Grace: How to Bridge Divides and Love as Jesus Loved

The Lost World of the Torah

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

Reappearing Church: The Hope for Renewal in the Rise of Our Post-Christian Culture

Blessed, Broken, Given

Frederick Douglass

The Road to Character

David Brooks

Episode #365

The Road to Character: Brooks, David

Exactly as You Are: The Life and Faith of Mister Rogers

The Apostles Creed a Guide to the Ancient Catechism

Not From Around here

The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry

John Mark Comer

Episode #376

The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry

Dominion: How the Christian Revolution remade the world

The Decadent Society: How we became the victims of our own society

Rediscipling the White Church

The Sacred Overlap: learning to live faithfully in the Space Between

Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers

The Great Influenza: the story of the deadliest pandemic in history

The Nameless Things

Embodied: Transgender identities, the Church, and What the Bible has to say
 

The Story of God Bible Commentary - Mark
 

Timothy Gombis

Episode #453

​Mark (The Story of God Bible Commentary): Gombis, Timothy G., McKnight, Scot

After Doubt: How to Question your faith without Losing it

A.J. Swoboda

Episode #454

​After Doubt: How to Question Your Faith without Losing It: A. J. Swoboda, John Comer

Until Unity

Francis Chan

Episode #452

Until Unity: Chan, Francis: 9780830782727: Amazon.com: Books

A Church Called Tov

Scot McKnight

Episode #455

A Church Called Tov: Forming a Goodness Culture That Resists Abuses of Power and Promotes Healing:

The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth
 

When Thoughts and prayers Aren’t Enough

Taylor Schumann

Episode #461

​When Thoughts and Prayers Aren't Enough: A Shooting Survivor's Journey into the Realities of Gun Violence:

Jesus and John Wayne

Kristen Kobez Du Mez

Episode #1,2,3,4 of Jesus and John Wayne Series

Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

Reading the Times: A Literary and Theological Inquiry into the News

Jeffery Bilbro

Episode #460

​Reading the Times: A Literary and Theological Inquiry into the News: Bilbro, Jeffrey

Hinge Moments: Making the Most of Life’s Transitions

D. Michael Lindsay

Episode #463

Amazon.com: Hinge Moments: Making the Most of Life's Transitions:

We Too: How the Church can Respond Redemptively to the Sexual Abuse Crisis

Unfettered: Imagining a childlike faith beyond the baggage of Western culture

Reparations: A Christian call for repentance and repair

Gregory Thompson and Duke Kwon

Episode #467

amazon.com/Reparations-Christian-Call-Repentance-Repair/dp/1587434504

Welcoming the Stranger: Justice, Compassion, and Truth in the Immigration Debate

Everything Happens for Reason and Other Lies I’ve Loved

Where the Light Fell

No Cure for Being Human: and Other Truths I Need to Hear

Blessed - A History of the American Prosperity Gospel

Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right

Bullies and Saints: An Honest Look at the Good and Evil of Christian History

Struggling with Evangelicalism: Why I Want to Leave and What it Takes to Stay

Subversive Witness: Scriptrue’s Call to Leverage Privilege

Seven Things I wish People knew about the Bible

Discovering Biblical Equality

God Behaving Badly: Is the God of the Old Testament Angry, Sexist, and Racist

The Everlasting People: G.K. Chesterton and the First Nations

How (Not) to Read the Bible: Making Sense of the Anti-women, Anti-science, Pro-violence, Pro-slavery and Other Crazy-Sounding Parts of Scripture
 

One Church, Many Tribes

Richard Twiss

Episode #493

​One Church, Many Tribes: Richard Twiss, Dawson, John: 9780830725458: Amazon.com: Books

We the Fallen People: The Founders and the Future of American Democracy

On the Spectrum: Autism, Faith and the Gifts of Neurodiversity

Culture Making: Recovering our Creative Calling

We Need to Build: Field Notes for Diverse Democracy

Fractured Faith: Finding your way back to God in an age of Deconstruction

The Gift of Pain
 

Paul Brand and Philip Yancey

Episode #510

https://www.amazon.com/Gift-Pain-Paul-Brand/dp/0310221447​

The Life We’re Looking For: Reclaiming Relationship in a Technological World

Next Sunday: An Honest Dialogue about the Future of the Church

The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why it Matters

My Body is Not a Prayer Request: Disability in the Church

Inalienable: How Marginalized Voices Can Help Save the American Church

Matthew Soerens and Eric Constanzo and Daniel Yang

Episode #517

https://www.amazon.com/Inalienable-Marginalized-Kingdom-Voices-American/dp/151400304X​

What if Jesus was Serious about the Church

American Evangelicalism: Embattled and Thriving

How to be a Patriotic Christian: Love of Country as Love of Neighbor

Gods that Fail: Modern Idolatry and Christian Mission

Vinoth Ramachandra

Episode #What in the world Ep2

https://www.amazon.com/Gods-That-Fail-Revised-Christian/dp/1498282148​

Good and Beautiful and Kind: Becoming Whole in a Fractured World
 

Celebrities for Jesus: How Personas, platforms, and Profits are Hurting the Church

Brown Church: Five Centuries of Latina/o Social Justice, Theology and Identity
 

Robert Chao Romero

Episode # What in the World Ep3

https://www.amazon.com/Brown-Church-Centuries-Theology-Identity/dp/0830852859

A Curious Faith: The Questions God Asks, We Ask, and We Wish Someone Would Ask Us
 

The Bible in Politics

Every Leaf, Line, and Letter

Analog Christian: Cultivating Contentment, Resilience, and Wisdom in the Digital Age

The Religion of American Greatness: What’s Wrong with Christian Nationalism

Embracing Rhythms of Work and Rest

Beautiful People Don’t Just Happen:

Dirt Clods and Donkeys: An Experiment in Mentoring That Changed Lives

The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

He Descended to the Dead: An Evangelical Theology of Holy Saturday

52 Weeks in the Word

The Crucifixion: Understanding the Death of Jesus Christ

Bearing God’s Name: Why Sinai Still Matters

Forsaken: The Trinity and the Cross, and Why It Matters

Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010

Women and the Gender of God

Lent: The Season of Repentance and Renewal

Josey Johnson’s hair and the Holy Spirit

All My Knotted-Up Life

Rethinking Life: Embracing the Sacredness of Every Person

Revolution for the Rest of Us: A Prophetic Call to Follow Jesus as a Dissident Disciple

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible’s Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture

The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism

Becoming the Church: God’s People in Purpose and Power

Required: God’s Call to Justice, Mercy and Humility to Overcome Racial Division

Necessary Christianity: What Jesus Shows We Must be and do

The Politics of the Cross: A Christian Alternatives to Partisanship

Faithful: A Theology of Sex

Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement that Failed a Generation

Preaching to a Divided Nation: A Seven-step Model for Promoting Reconciliation and Unity

The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism

On Getting Out of Bed: The Burden and Gift of Living

Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

Rich Mullins (25th Anniversary Edition): An Arrow Pointing to Heaven

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

Learning Humility: A Year of Searching for a Vanishing Virtue

Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church

Reading for the Love of God: How to Read as Spiritual Practice

Evangelical Truth: A Personal Plea for Unity and Faithfulness

The Evangelical Imagination

The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy: and the Path to a Shared American Future

Wisdom for Faithful Reading: Principles and Practices for Old Testament Interpretation

White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity

The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God:

What’s So Amazing About Grace

I am Restored: How I Lost My Religion but Found My Faith

How Far to the Promised Land

Carved in Ebony: Lessons from the Black Women Who Shape Us

What if Jesus was Serious about Heaven

Poverty By America

Into the Heart of Romans: A Deep Dive into Paul’s Greatest Letter

The Emotional Lives of Teenagers

The Bible and Borders: Hearing God’s Word on Immigration

Restless Devices: Recovering Personhood, Presence, and Place in the Digital Age

What Jesus Intended: Finding True Faith in the Rubble of Bad Religion

Just Show Up: How Small Acts of Faithfulness Change Everything (A Guide for Exhausted Christians)

The Second Testament

The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

Pivot: The Priorities, Practices, and Powers That Can Transform Your Church into a Tov Culture

The Spirit of Our Politics: Spiritual Formation and the Renovation of Public Life

Land of My Sojourn: The Landscape of a Faith Lost and Found

The Wood Between the Worlds: A Poetic Theology of the Cross

Why the Gospel? Living the Good News of King Jesus with Purpose

The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

Learning to Disagree: The Surprising Path to navigating differences with empathy and respect

Brown Faces, White Spaces: Confronting Systemic Racism to Bring Healing and Restoration

Jesus and the Powers

Be the Bridge: Pursuing God’s Heart for Racial Reconciliation

Ownership: The Evangelical Legacy of Slavery in Edwards, Wesley, and Whitefield

Fully Alive: Tending to the Soul in Turbulent Times

The Narrow Path: How the Subversive Way of Jesus Satisfies Our Souls

The Other Side of the Wall

The New Testament in Color: A Multiethnic Bible Commentary

Esau McCaulley, Janette H. OK, Osvaldo Padilla, Amy Peeler 

Episode #628

https://www.amazon.com/New-Testament-Color-Multiethnic-Commentary/dp/0830814094​

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