Top 50 Books for Consideration

Here are my Top 50 books that we might read on this blog (alpha order). They're taken from the Big List.

1. A Quaker Book of Wisdom: Life Lessons In Simplicity, Service, And Common Sense (Smith)
2. Adventures in Missing the Point: How the Culture-Controlled Church Neutered the Gospel (McLaren & Campolo)
3. Alternatives to Economics: Christian Socio-economic Perspectives (Cara)
4. And You Call Yourself a Christian (Lupton)
5. Beyond Charity: The Call to Christian Community Development (Perkins)
6. Changing the Face of Hunger: The Story of How Liberals, Conservatives, Republicans, Democrats, and People of Faith are Joining Forces in a New Movement to Help the Hungry, the Poor, and the Oppressed (Hall)
7. Christian Peacemaking & International Conflict: A Realist Pacifist Perspective (Friesen)
8. Christian Peacemaking: From Heritage to Hope (Buttry)
9. Colossians Remixed: Subverting the Empire (Walsh & Keesmaat)
10. Compassion, Justice and the Christian Life: Rethinking Ministry to the Poor (Lupton)
11. Covenant of Peace: The Missing Peace in New Testament Theology and Ethics (Swartley)
12. Dangerous Faith: Growing in God and Service to the World (Vestal)
13. Disruptive Religion (Smith)
14. Economics in Christian Perspective: Theory, Policy and Life Choices (Claar & Klay)
15. Economy of Grace (Tanner)
16. Faith Works (Wallis)
17. Following Christ in a Consumer Society: The Spirituality of Cultural Resistance (Kavanaugh)
18. For the Beauty of the Earth (Bouma-Prediger)
19. For They Shall Be Fed: Scripture Readings and Prayers for a Just World (Sider)
20. Getting Your Feet Dirty: A Down-to-earth Look at Following Jesus (Everts)
21. Good News about Injustice (Haugen)
22. Jesus for President (Claiborne & Haw)
23. Jesus in the Margins: Finding God in the Places We Ignore (Mckinley)
24. Jesus Weeps: Global Encounters on Our Doorstep (Recinos & Evans)
25. Jesus, Justice, and the Reign of God: A Ministry of Liberation (Herzog)
26. Jewish Dimensions of Social Justice: Tough Moral Choices of Our Time (Vorspan & Saperstein)
27. Justice and Judaism: The Work of Social Action (Vorspan)
28. Justice and Peace: A Christian Primer (Thompson)
29. Less Than Two Dollars a Day: A Christian View of World Poverty and the Free Market (Van Til)
30. Let Justice Roll Down (Perkins)
31. My Name Is Child of God...Not "Those People": A First Person Look at Poverty (Dinsmore)
32. Peace on Earth: Roots and Practices from Luke's Gospel (Grassi)
33. Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger (Sider)
34. Same Kind of Different as Me (Hall, Moore & Vincent)
    
35. Seeking Peace (Arnold)
36. Serve God, Save the Planet (Sleeth)
37. Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays (Berry)
38. Shalom: The Bible's Word for Salvation, Justice, and Peace (Yoder)
39. Social Justice: A Jewish Perspective (Kliksberg & Friedlander)
40. Social Justice and the Christian Church (Nash)
41. Submerge: Living Deep in a Shallow World: Service, Justice and Contemplation Among the World's Poor (Hayes)
42. The Drama of Scripture (Bartholomew & Goheen)
43. The God of Intimacy and Action: Reconnecting Ancient Spiritual Practices, Evangelism, and Justice (Campolo & Darling)
44. The Myth of a Christian Nation: How the Quest for Political Power Is Destroying the Church (Boyd)
45. The New Friars: The Emerging Movement Serving the World's Poor (Bessenecker)
46. The Peacemaking Remnant (Morgan)
47. The Politics of Jesus (Yoder)
48. The Relevant Nation: 50 Activist, Artists And Innovators Who Are Changing Their World through Faith (Zydek)
49. What Can One Person Do? Faith to Heal a Broken World (Alkire)
50. Who Comes in the Name of the Lord?: Jesus at the Margins (Recinos)