{"id":1258,"date":"2007-08-29T10:15:50","date_gmt":"2007-08-29T10:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godspolitics\/2007\/08\/back-to-school-reading-list-by.html"},"modified":"2007-08-29T10:15:50","modified_gmt":"2007-08-29T10:15:50","slug":"back-to-school-reading-list-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/2007\/08\/back-to-school-reading-list-by.html","title":{"rendered":"Back to School Reading List \/by Jim Wallis\/"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many students will groan when I point out these inevitable signs of the times, and an equally inevitable conclusion. August is upon us. Summer is quickly winding down. And this can only mean one thing: school is just around the corner!
\nI was reminded of this fact yesterday as I sent off my book order for the course I\u2019m teaching at Harvard Divinity School this fall. If you\u2019re looking for some late-summer reading, consider the following titles:
\nH. Richard Niebuhr, Christ and Culture<\/em><\/a>
\nJohn Howard Yoder, The Politics of Jesus<\/em><\/a>
\nE.J. Dionne Jr., One Electorate Under God?<\/em><\/a>
\nSusannah Heschel (ed), Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays<\/em><\/a>\"\"
\nRichard Land, The Divided States of America? What Liberals AND Conservatives are missing in the God-and-country shouting match!<\/em><\/a>
\nReza Aslan, No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam<\/em><\/a>
\nKathleen Kennedy Townsend, Failing America’s Faithful: How Today’s Churches Are Mixing God with Politics and Losing Their Way<\/em><\/a>
\nDonald Dayton, Discovering an Evangelical Heritage<\/em><\/a>
\nRandall Balmer, Thy Kingdom Come: How the Religious Right Distorts the Faith and Threatens America<\/em><\/a>
\nDavid Kuo, Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction<\/em><\/a>
\nMichael Gerson, Heroic Conservatism: Why Republicans Need to Embrace America’s Ideals (And Why They Deserve to Fail If They Don’t)<\/em><\/a>\"\"
\nRonald Thiemann, Religion in Public Life: A Dilemma For Democracy<\/em><\/a>
\nMichael Kazin, A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many students will groan when I point out these inevitable signs of the times, and an equally inevitable conclusion. August is upon us. Summer is quickly winding down. And this can only mean one thing: school is just around the corner! I was reminded of this fact yesterday as I sent off my book order…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-culture"],"yoast_head":"\nBack to School Reading List \/by Jim Wallis\/ - God's Politics<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/2007\/08\/back-to-school-reading-list-by.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Back to School Reading List \/by Jim Wallis\/ - God's Politics\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Many students will groan when I point out these inevitable signs of the times, and an equally inevitable conclusion. 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