I’ve been waiting for years for Grant Wacker to finish it, and the wait was worth it.Īrts & Entertainments. My only objection to this superb book-even David Hollinger, who positively loathes Graham, calls it far and away the best thing ever written on its subject-is its faintly grandiose subtitle, which can be overlooked as a convention of the trade. For additional thoughts on the Books of 2014, keep an eye out for a piece I’m doing for First Things (assuming it passes muster there).Īmerica’s Pastor: Billy Graham and the Shaping of the Nation. The titles are mostly in alphabetical order (and the logic of departures from that will be clear), followed at the end by the Book of the Year. It seems churlish to mention only a handful of their books here, but let these stand for a much larger number: David Skeel’s True Paradox: How Christianity Makes Sense of Our Complex World Karen Swallow Prior’s Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Like of Hannah More-Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist David Martin’s Religion and Power: No Logos Without Mythos (excellent to read alongside Andy Crouch’s 2013 book Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power) Tiffany Kriner’s The Future of the Word: An Eschatology of Reading Daniel Taylor’s novel Death Comes for the Deconstructionist Scott Cairns’ Idiot Psalms and Glitter Bomb by Aaron Belz. I should add that-also as usual-it was a good year for Books & Culture writers.
But these ARE the ones that came most readily to mind when I entered the requisite trance and began writing semi-automatically on the back of an envelope-in this case, one I’ve not opened, from the Social Security Adminstration (#theagingbrain). Did someone slip JJ-180 into my buttermilk? At least I know that in this particular time-stream, I’m supposed to be listing my Favorite Books of 2014.Īs usual, this list makes no pretensions to identify the “best” books, nor even to include all of those that dazzled me in the course of a year of reading.
Once again I feel like a character from Philip K.
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