Featured Books
MBS Featured Books are chosen on an annual basis.
Author:
Leymah Gbowee & Carol Mithers
Recommended By:
Mike Colyott - Resource Director
In a time of death and terror, Leymah Gbowee brought Liberia’s women together—and together they led a nation to peace.
“A culturally significant collection that explores the challenges of reconciling pleasure with piety.”—Kirkus
Author:
Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite
“This book is a powerful and prophetic work of public theology for our idolatrous times." -- Cornel West
Author:
Amy-Jill Levine (Editor), Marc Z. Brettler (Editor)
Recommended By:
Mike Colyott - Resource Director
There has never been an edition of the New Testament that addresses its Jewish background and the culture from which it grew--until now.
Author:
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
Recommended By:
Mike Colyott - Resource Director
I celebrate this book and its potential to provoke dialog and elevate our high ideals of unity and understanding. --Cory A. Booker, Mayor of Newark
Author:
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths . . .
Author:
John Shelby Spong
Recommended By:
Mike Colyott - Resource Director
A definitive voice for progressive Christianity, Spong frees readers from a literal view of the Bible.
Author:
Josephe Marie Flynn SSND & Helen Prejean CSJ
What is it like to be a young mother threatened with deportation to the country whose government has imprisoned, raped, and tortured you?
Recommended By:
Mike Colyott - Resource Director
"Beautiful, harrowing, a major contribution to twenty-first century literature."—Toni Morrison, Nobel Laureate in Literature
Author:
James Martin, S.J.
Father Martin invites believers to rediscover the importance of humor and laughter in our daily lives.
