Staff/Trustee Selections
books read and recommended by MBS Staff and Trustees.
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
Recommended By:
Mike Colyott - Resource Director
Sweeny shows why the KJV has been the most important entry into the Christian scriptures for the English-speaking world.
Recommended By:
Mike Colyott - Resource Director
"Beal's exciting book offers both fascinating history and a new and insightful way to approach the 'sacred text'." -John Shelby Spong
Recommended By:
Mike Colyott - Resource Director
Karen Armstrong now gives us an impassioned and practical book that can help us make the world a more compassionate place.
Author:
Jennifer Wright Knust
Recommended By:
Rev. Anne Robertson, MassBible Executive Director & Mike Colyott, MassBible Resource Director
Bible scholar Jennifer Wright Knust addresses the big questions that dominate today's discussions and debates when it comes to sex and the Bible
Author:
Robert E. Putnam & David E. Campbell
Recommended By:
Mike Colyott - Resource Director
American Grace is a major achievement, a groundbreaking examination of religion in America.
Recommended By:
Mike Colyott - Resource Director
A loving, hard-working, godly couple has long been denied a family of their own. Finally, the wife makes a deal with God.
Author:
Diarmaid MacCulloch
Recommended By:
Mike Colyott - Resource Director
The National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of The Reformation returns with the definitive history of Christianity for our time
Recommended By:
Mike Colyott - Resource Director
Based on the most recent scholarship, Bible Babel is a lively and very readable introduction to the Bible.
