CBC Reading List
We know that it can be hard to find Christian books that address the questions you might be asking.
This is why we share a reading list of books that we recommend. Not everyone in our church will endorse everything in all of these books, but we want you to know that they exist.
Many of these books can be found in our church library, and they can sometimes be found in our Little Free Library, which is located near the church entrance on Commonwealth Avenue.
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Baptist History & Principles
The Baptist Identity
Walter B. Shurden
Baptist Questions, Baptist Answers
Bill J. Leonard
Evangelicalism & Christian Nationalism
The Making of Biblical Womanhood
Beth Allison Barr
Jesus and John Wayne
Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Taking America Back for God
Andrew L. Whitehead & Samuel L. Perry
Devotional Reading
A Rhythm of Prayer
Sarah Bessey
Good Enough
Kate Bowler & Jessica Richie
Glory Happening
Kaitlin B. Curtice
A Year with God
Julia L. Roller
Liberating Love Daily Devotional
Sandhya Jya
Social Justice: Criminal Justice & Capital Punishment
The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander
Executing Grace
Shane Claiborne
Just Mercy
Bryan Stevenson
Social Justice: Racial Equity & Justice
White Evangelical Racism
Anthea Butler
I'm Still Here
Austin Channing Brown
White Too Long
Robert P. Jones
Becoming Brave
Brenda Salter McNeil
But I Don't See You as Asian
Bruce Reyes-Chow
The Color of Compromise
Jemar Tisby
How to Fight Racism
Jemar Tisby
I Bring the Voices of My People
Chanequa Walker-Barnes
Faith & Doubt
Freeing Jesus
Diana Butler Bass
Bad Theology Kills
Kevin Garcia
Wholehearted Faith
Rachel Held Evans
Faith After Doubt
Brian D. McLaren
Decolonizing Christianity
Miguel A. De La Torre
Listening for God
Renita J. Weems
Faith Formation
Grateful
Diana Butler Bass
No Cure for Being Human
Kate Bowler
Love Is the Way
Bishop MIchael Curry
Native
Kaitlin B. Curtice
Joy Unspeakable
Barbara A. Holmes
Help, Thanks, Wow
Anne Lamott
Breathing Underwa
Richard Rohr
For Sabbath's Sake
J. Dana Trent
One Breath at a Time
J. Dana Trent
Joy Unspeakable
Chanequa Walker-Barnes
Grief and Suffering
Everything Happens for a Reason
Kate Bowler
Learning to Walk in the Dark
Barbara Brown Taylor
Tracks of a Fellow Struggle
John R. Claypool
Relationships & Sexuality: Marriage
Choosing Us
Gail Song Bantum & Brian Bantum
Modern Kinship
David Khalaf & Constantino Khalaf
Relationships & Sexuality: Sex & Purity Culture
Shameless
Nadia Bolz-Weber
Pure
Linda Kay Klein
Good Christian Sex
Bromleigh McCleneghan
Relationships & Sexuality: Sexuality & Gender Identity
Transforming
Austen Hartke
Outside the Lines
Mihee Kim-Kort
God and the Gay Christian
Matthew Vines