This is a running list of the books that ERB editor Chris Smith has reviewed this year.
It will regularly be updated.
Some reviews linked here are snippets / adaptations of longer reviews that have appeared in the print ERB magazine or other publications…
TOP 3 BOOKS (SO FAR)
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REVIEWED
(Starting with the most recent)
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Race & Place
David Leong
5 STARS
Review:
How Racism Saturates the
Structures of our Daily Lives
[easyazon_image align=”left” height=”250″ identifier=”1627851496″ locale=”US” src=”https://englewoodreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/51SYtfucwyL-1.jpg” tag=”douloschristo-20″ width=”162″] Feb. 22
Walking Home Together
Michael Mercer
5 STARS
Review:
Facing Death With
Grace and Courage
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The Sign and the Sacrifice
Rowan Williams
4 STARS
Review:
Excellent reading for
Lent or Holy Week!
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Dream With Me
John Perkins
4 STARS
Review:
Speaks Poignantly to
Escalating Racial Tension
[easyazon_image align=”left” height=”250″ identifier=”B01LWMCI3V” locale=”US” src=”https://englewoodreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/51WP2BUkJDkL.jpg” tag=”douloschristo-20″ width=”162″]Jan 31
Year of Small Things
Sarah Arthur /
Erin Wasinger
5 STARS
Review:
Hope of a More Meaningful Faith
[easyazon_image align=”left” height=”250″ identifier=”0718022351″ locale=”US” src=”https://englewoodreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/51SFn5V2ByuL.jpg” tag=”douloschristo-20″ width=”165″]Jan 24
The Way of the Dragon or
The Way of the Lamb
Kyle Strobel /
Jamin Goggin
5 STARS
Review:
Weakness, Love, and Community
[easyazon_image align=”left” height=”250″ identifier=”1501133969″ locale=”US” src=”https://englewoodreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/51JjdGZ8kL.jpg” tag=”douloschristo-20″ width=”166″]Jan 24
Dorothy Day: The World
Will Be Saved by Beauty
Kate Hennessy
5 STARS
Review:
Warm and Iconoclastic
[easyazon_image align=”left” height=”250″ identifier=”1627795987″ locale=”US” src=”https://englewoodreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/51Yzsz5dyUL.jpg” tag=”douloschristo-20″ width=”165″]Jan 17
My Life, My Love,
My Legacy
Coretta Scott King
5 STARS
Review:
An Extraordinary Memoir
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Tears We Cannot Stop
Michael Eric Dyson
3 STARS
Review:
Pales in Comparison to
BETWEEN THE WORLD & ME
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The Death of Race
Brian Bantum
5 STARS
Review:
NOT ONLINE
(Lent 2017 Print Magazine)
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Making Marriage Beautiful
Dorothy Greco
4 STARS
Review:
Wise and Immensely Practical
[easyazon_image align=”left” height=”250″ identifier=”B01M055QWW” locale=”US” src=”https://englewoodreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/418SqI2DotL.jpg” tag=”douloschristo-20″ width=”167″]Jan 6
Marriage in Interesting Times
Robert Cornwall
4 STARS
Review:
Healthy Enduring Marriages
C. Christopher Smith is the founding editor of The Englewood Review of Books. He is also author of a number of books, including most recently How the Body of Christ Talks: Recovering the Practice of Conversation in the Church (Brazos Press, 2019). Connect with him online at: C-Christopher-Smith.com
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