Comprehensive Index
of Book Notes
This index lists all The Journey with Jesus book
notes by Dan
Clendenin .
New additions to the site (12 May 2008):
Recent additions to the site (5 Mayl 2008):
Previously posted book notes:
Carmen Acevedo Butcher, translator and editor, Hildegard of Bingen; A Spiritual Reader .
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Infidel .
James Allen, Hilton Als, Congressman John Lewis, and Leon F. Litwack, Without Sanctuary; Lynching Photography in America .
Maya Angelou, Mother; A Cradle to Hold Me .
Reza Aslan, No god but God; The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam .
David Augsburger, Dissident Discipleship; A Spirituality of Self-Surrender, Love of God, and Love of Neighbor .
Wes Avram, ed., Anxious About Empire; Theological Essays on the New Global Realities .
Mahmoud M. Ayoub, Islam: Faith and History .
Andrew Bacevich, The New American Militarism; How Americans Are Seduced By War .
Randall Balmer, Thy Kingdom Come; An Evangelical's Lament. How the Religious Right Distorts the Faith and Threatens America .
M. Craig Barnes, Searching for Home; Spirituality for Restless Souls .
Greg Behrman, The Invisible People; How the US Has Slept Through the Global AIDS Pandemic, the Greatest Humanitarian Catastrophe of Our Time .
Rob Bell, Velvet Elvis; Repainting the Christian Faith .
Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon, The Next Attack; The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting It Right .
Morris Berman, Dark Ages America; The Final Phase of Empire .
Georges Bernanos, The Diary of a Country Priest .
J. Brent Bill, Holy Silence; The Gift of Quaker Spirituality .
Harold Bloom and Jesse Zuba, editors, American Religious Poems, An Anthology .
Marcus Borg,
Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan, The First Christmas; What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus's Birth .
Gregory A. Boyd, The Myth of a Christian Nation; How the Quest for Political Power is Destroying the Church .
Timothy Bradshaw, ed., The Way Forward? Christian Voices on Homosexuality and the Church .
Bernard Brady and Mark Neuzil, A Spiritual Field Guide; Meditations for the Outdoors .
Walter Brueggemann, Spirituality of the Psalms .
Bill Bryson,
David Brooks, On Paradise Drive; How We Live Now (And Always Have) In The Future Tense .
Margaret Bullitt-Jonas,
W. David Buschart, Exploring Protestant Traditions; An Invitation to Theological Hospitality .
Will D. Campbell,
John Cassian (tr. by Boniface Ramsey),
Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton .
James Childs, editor, Faithful Conversation; Christian Perspectives on Homosexuality .
Bruce Chilton, Mary Magdalene; A Biography .
Joan Chittister,
Noam Chomsky, Failed States; The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy .
John Chryssavgis, In the Heart of the Desert; The Spirituality of the Desert Fathers and Mothers .
Amy Chua, World on Fire:
How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and
Global Instability .
Rodney Clapp, Tortured Wonders; Christian Spirituality for People, Not Angels .
Eric Clapton, Clapton: The Autobiography .
Francis Collins, The Language of God; A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief in God .
Harvey Cox, When Jesus Came to Harvard; Making Moral Choices Today .
Lindsey Crittenden, The Water Will Hold You; A Skeptic Learns to Pray .
John Bul Dau with Michael S. Sweeney, God Grew Tired of Us; A Memoir .
Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion (review by Martin Marty).
Judith M. Dean, Julie Schaffner, and Stephen L.S. Smith, editors, Attacking Poverty in the Developing World; Christian Practitioners and Academics in Collaboration .
Dieter Dengler, Escape from Laos .
Jared Diamond, Collapse; How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed .
Larry Diamond, Squandered Victory; The American Occupation and The Bungled Effort To Bring Democracy To Iraq .
Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking .
David Herbert Donald, Lincoln .
William Easterly, The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (guest review by Julie Schaffner, Visiting Associate Professor of International Economics in the Fletcher School at Tufts University).
Daniel Ellsberg, Secrets:
A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers .
Jacques Ellul and Patrick Troude-Chastenet, Jacques Ellul on Politics, Technology and Christianity .
Helen Epstein, The Invisible Cure; Africa, the West, and the Fight Against AIDS .
Paul Farmer, Pathologies of Power; Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor .
Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering; Death and the American Civil War .
Hans Conrad Fischer, Johann Sebastian Bach; His Life in Pictures and Documents, with CD .
Tim Flannery, The Weather Makers; How Man is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth .
Richard Wightman Fox, Jesus in America: Personal Savior, Cultural Hero, National Obsession .
Harry Frankfurt, On Bullshit .
James Frey, A Million Little Pieces .
Thomas L. Friedman, The World is Flat; A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century .
Francis Fukuyama,
Nora Gallagher,
Joakim Garff, Soren Kierkegaard; A Biography .
Becky Garrison, Red and Blue God, Black and Blue Church; Eyewitness Accounts of How American Churches Are Hijacking Jesus, Bagging the Beatitudes, and Worshipping the Almighty Dollar .
Owen Gingerich, God's Universe .
Michelle Goldberg, Kingdom Coming; The Rise of Christian Nationalism .
Lorrie Goldensohn, editor, American War Poetry; An Anthology .
Warren Goldstein, William Sloane Coffin, Jr., A Holy Impatience .
Raymond G. Gordon, Jr., ed., Ethnologue: Languages of the World .
Philip Gourevitch, We Wish
to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families;
Stories From Rwanda .
Andrew Greeley, Jesus; A Meditation on His Stories and His Relationships with Women .
Melissa Fay Greene, There Is No Me Without You: One Woman’s Odyssey to Rescue Africa’s Children .
Kathryn Greene-McCreight, Darkness Is My Only Companion; A Christian Response to Mental Illness .
Stephen Greenblatt, Will in the World; How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare .
Sam Harris,
Stanley Hauerwas,
Chris Hedges,
Jonathan Hill, What Has Christianity Ever Done For Us?
Joshua Key as told to Lawrence Hill, The Deserter's Tale; The Story of an Ordinary Soldier Who Walked Away from the War in Iraq .
Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great; How Religion Poisons Everything .
J. Allan Hobson, Dreaming; An Introduction to the Science of Sleep .
Adam Hochschild, Bury the Chains; Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves .
Jennifer L. Holberg, ed., Shouts and Whispers; Twenty-One Writers Speak About Their Writing and Their Faith .
Roger Housden, Seven Sins for a Life Worth Living .
James M. Houston, Joyful Exiles; Life in Christ on the Dangerous Edge of Things .
Robert Inchausti, Subversive Orthodoxy; Outlaws, Revolutionaries, and Other Christians in Disguise .
Walter Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin; An American Life .
Max Jammer, Einstein and Religion .
Philip Jenkins,
Chalmers Johnson,
Robert Johnston, Useless Beauty; Ecclesiastes through the Lens of Contemporary Film .
Tony Jones, The New Christians; Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier .
Robert Kaplan,
Rodolphe Kasser, Marvin Meyer, and Gregor Wurst, editors, with additional commentary by Bart D. Ehrman, The Gospel of Judas .
Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains; The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Change the World .
Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life .
David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons, UnChristian; What a New Generation Really Thinks About Christianity .
Stephen Kinzer, Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq .
Brian Kolodiejchuk, ed., Mother Teresa; Come Be My Light; The Private Writings of the "Saint of Calcutta" .
Jon Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven; A Story of Violent Faith .
Charles Kimball, When
Religion Becomes Evil .
Michael Kimmelman, The Accidental Masterpiece; On the Art of Life and Vice Versa .
William W. Klein, Become What You Are; Spiritual Formation According to the Sermon on the Mount .
David Kuo, Tempting Faith; An Inside Story of Political Seduction .
Peter Kramer, Against Depression .
Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith .
Peter Leithart, 1&2 Kings; Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible .
Matthew Levering, Ezra and Nehemiah; Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible .
Madeline Levine, The Price of Privilege; How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids .
Gordon Livingston, M.D., Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart – Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now .
Beverly Lowry, Harriet Tubman, A Biography .
Diarmaid MacCulloch, The Reformation .
Brennan Manning, A
Glimpse of Jesus ; The Wisdom of Tenderness ; and The
Ragamuffin Gospel .
Martin Marty, Martin Luther .
Frank McCourt, Teacher Man; A Memoir .
Donald McCullough, The
Consolations of Imperfection; Learning to Appreciate Life’s
Limitations .
George McGovern and William R. Polk, Out of Iraq; A Practical Plan for Withdrawal Now .
Alister McGrath, Christianity's Dangerous Idea; The Protestant Revolution—A History from the Sixteenth Century to the Twenty-First .
Bill McKibben, Deep Economy; The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future .
Scot McKnight, The Jesus Creed; Loving God, Loving Others .
Brian McLaren, A Generous Orthodoxy .
Jon Meacham
Martin Meredith, The Fate of Africa; From the Hopes of Freedom to the Heart of Despair: A History of 50 Years of Independence .
Thomas Merton, The Inner Experience; Notes on Contemplation .
Donald E. Messer, Breaking the Conspiracy of Silence; Christian Churches and the Global AIDS Crisis .
Sara Miles, Take this Bread; A Radical Conversion .
Calvin Miller, The Path of Celtic Prayer; An Ancient Way to Everyday Joy .
Kenneth Miller, Finding Darwin's God .
Edmund Morris, Beethoven; The Universal Composer .
Richard Mouw,
Malcolm Muggeridge, Something Beautiful for God; The Classic Account of Mother Teresa's Journey Into Compassion .
Cullen Murphy, Are We Rome? The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America .
Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran; A Memoir in Books .
National Academies Press, Science and Creationism: A View From the National Academy of Sciences .
National Academy of Sciences and Institute of Medicine, Science, Evolution, and Creationism .
Mark A. Noll, The Civil War as a Theological Crisis .
Henri Nouwen, In the Name of Jesus; Reflections on Christian Leadership .
Robert O'Harrow, Jr., No Place to Hide .
George Packer, Assassins' Gate; America in Iraq .
Camille Paglia, Break, Blow, Burn; Camille Paglia Reads Forty-Three of the World's Best Poems .
Parker Palmer,
Jaroslav Pelikan,
Eugene Peterson, Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places; A Conversation In Spiritual Theology .
Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food; An Eater's Manifesto .
Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business .
Samantha Power, A
Problem From Hell; America and the Age of Genocide .
Vijay Prashad, The Darker Nations; A People's History of the Third World .
Reynolds Price, Letter to a Godchild (Concerning Faith) .
Stephen Prothero, American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon .
Thom S. Rainer and Eric Geiger, Simple Church; Returning to God's Process for Making Disciples .
Anne Rice, Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt .
Rainer Maria Rilke, Pictures of God; Rilke's Religious Poetry .
Marilynne Robinson, Gilead .
Joan Roughgarden, Evolution and Christian Faith; Reflections of an Evolutionary Biologist .
Jeffrey Sachs, The End of Poverty; Economic Possibilities for Our Time .
Carl Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience; A Personal View of the Search for God .
Lamin Sanneh, Whose Religion is Christianity?The Gospel Beyond the West .
Dorothy Sayers, Are Women Human?
Åsne Seierstad, trans. by Ingrid Christopherson, The Bookseller of Kabul .
Amartya Sen, Identity and Violence; The Illusion of Destiny .
Anthony Shadid, Night Draws Near; Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War .
David Shipler, The
Working Poor; Invisible in America .
Ronald J. Sider, The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience; Why Are Christians Living Just Like the Rest of the World? .
Lewis B. Smedes, My God and I; A Spiritual Memoir .
Christian Smith and Melinda Lundquist Denton, Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers .
Huston Smith, The Soul of Christianity; Restoring the Great Tradition .
Frank Anthony Spina, The Faith of the Outsider; Exclusion and Inclusion in the Biblical Story .
John Shelby Spong, The Sins of Scripture; Exposing the Bible's Texts of Hate to Reveal the God of Love .
Brian Steidle, The Devil Came on Horseback; Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur .
Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes, The Three Trillion Dollar War; The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict .
Anthony Swofford, Jarhead;
A Marine’s Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles .
Barbara Brown Taylor, Leaving Church; A Memoir of Faith .
George Tenet, At the Center of the Storm; My Years at the CIA .
Dang Thuy Tram, Last Night I Dreamed of Peace; The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram .
Christopher Tyerman, God's War; A New History of the Crusades .
Dan O. Via and Robert A.J. Gagnon, Homosexuality and the Bible; Two Views .
Gore Vidal, Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace; How We Got To Be So Hated .
Ed Viesturs, with David Roberts, No Shortcuts to the Top; Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks .
Grant Wacker, Heaven Below; Early Pentecostals and American Culture .
Jim Wallis, Gods's Politics; Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It; A New Vision for Faith and Politics in America .
Benedicta Ward (tr.), The Sayings of the Desert Fathers; The Alphabetical Collection .
Rick Warren, The Purpose-Driven Life; What On Earth Am I Here For? .
Mel White, Stranger at the Gate; To Be Gay and Christian in America .
Robert Louis Wilken
Rowan Williams
Garry Wills,
E.O. Wilson, The Creation; An Appeal to Save Life on Earth .
Ben Witherington III, The Gospel Code; Novel Claims About Jesus, Mary Magdalene and Da Vinci .
World Resources Institute, Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Synthesis. A Report of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment .
N.T. Wright, Simply Christian; Why Christianity Makes Sense .
Fareed Zakaria, The
Future of Freedom; Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad .
Elizabeth Zelensky and Lela Gilbert, Windows to Heaven; Introducing Icons to Protestants and Catholics .
General Tony Zinni and Tony Koltz, The Battle for Peace; A Frontline Vision of America's Power and Purpose .