15 books that won't let you stay comfortable—and the podcast conversations that brought them to life
THE BEAUTIFUL RESISTANCE
Resistance isn't just about tearing down—it's about building something truer, something better, something beautiful. And it starts with voices that refuse to stay quiet.
These 15 authors have sat across the mic with Tripp Fuller, Tim Whitaker, and the God-Pod network, broadcasting hope from the ruins of empire Christianity. From Anthea Butler's White Evangelical Racism to Diana Butler Bass's A Beautiful Year, from Malcolm Foley's Anti-Greed Gospel to Matthew Taylor's The Violent Take It By Force—these aren't books that let you stay comfortable.
They're books that challenge white evangelicalism, Christian nationalism, and empire economics. They explore disgust theology, enemy love, and what it means to separate church from state. They help you see what's ending and imagine what's being born.
This is your resistance reading collection. Your broadcast from the wasteland. Your invitation to the beautiful work of reconstruction.
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2ND & 3RD PLACE:
📖 Anthea Butler, White Evangelical Racism
📖 April Ajoy, Star Spangled Jesus
📖 Malcolm Foley, Anti-Greed Gospel
📖 Matthew Taylor, The Violent Take It By Force
📖 Diana Butler Bass, A Beautiful Year
📖 Billie Hoard & Paul Hoard, Eucontamination: Disgust Theology and the Christian Life
📖 Garry Dorrien, A Darkly Radiant Vision: The Black Social Gospel in the Shadow of MLK
📖 Ilia Delio, The Christian Mutation: Reclaiming the Dynamic God of Jesus
📖 Cornel West, Prophesy Deliverance!: An Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity
📖 Andrew Davis, Metaphysics of Exo-Life: Toward a Constructive Whiteheadian Cosmotheology
📖 Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas, When the Good Life Goes Bad: The US and Its Seven Deadly Sins
📖 James McGrath, Beyond Deconstruction: Building a More Expansive Faith
📖 Jennifer Garcia Bashaw, Serving Up Scripture: How to Interpret the Bible for Yourself and Others
📖 Bill Leonard, The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to Church History: Flaming Heretics and Heavy Drinkers
📖 Thomas Jay Oord, A Systematic Theology of Love, Volume 1: God and Creation
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