{"id":2062,"date":"2019-01-19T16:29:33","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T16:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/?p=2062"},"modified":"2019-01-22T17:08:45","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T17:08:45","slug":"my-top-ten-books-of-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/my-top-ten-books-of-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"My Top Ten Books of 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After reading over one hundred books (And reviewing 55!) in 2018, I thought I’d distill my opinions into one shorter list – my Top Ten books of 2018. It’s worth noting that this is an idiosyncratic list – not all of these were published in 2018, and they represent my own general reading. So, without further ado…<\/p>\n

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  1. Jimmy Dodd and Larry Magnusson’s\u00a0Pastors are People Too<\/em><\/a> – this was my favourite book of the year. I’m not a pastor, but I loved reading this, and have been recommending it widely.<\/li>\n
  2. Laurence Rees,\u00a0The Holocaust<\/em><\/a> – a sobering, monumental book. Popular history with serious lessons for today.<\/li>\n
  3. Susan Eastman’s\u00a0Paul and the Person<\/em><\/a> – a helpful and thoughtful academic book on Paul’s view of the human person.<\/li>\n
  4. Kate Bowler’s\u00a0Everything Happens for a Reason<\/em><\/a> – a powerful and poignant memoir of suffering, interspersed with reflection on the Prosperity Gospel.<\/li>\n
  5. Rowan Williams’\u00a0Being Human<\/em><\/a> – an excellent little book, completing a helpful trilogy.<\/li>\n
  6. Rachel Newham,\u00a0Learning to Breathe<\/em><\/a> – a beautiful, profound and painful book about depression and suicide.<\/li>\n
  7. David Bennett,\u00a0A War of Loves<\/em><\/a> – a superb book, blending a personal story and profound theological reflection on issues of sexuality and desire.<\/li>\n
  8. Jennifer Bute,\u00a0Dementia from the Inside<\/em><\/a> – a small book blending memoir and theology.<\/li>\n
  9. Chris Lane,\u00a0Ordinary Miracles<\/em><\/a> – a nicely written, self-deprecating book, which challenges perceptions and practice around church planting and leadership.<\/li>\n
  10. Todd Wilson,\u00a0Mere Sexuality<\/em><\/a> – probably the best book I’ve read this year on sex and spirituality.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Keen-eyed readers will note that 4, 5, 6 and 8 are SPCK books – some of which I’d worked on in some way whilst working there. Otherwise, this Top Ten echoes my general set of interests – church, being human, and history. For a mix of brief opinions and some links to reviews on the other 93 books I read last year, check out this post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    After reading over one hundred books (And reviewing 55!) in 2018, I thought I’d distill my opinions into one shorter list – my Top Ten books of 2018. It’s worth noting that this is an idiosyncratic list – not all … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[87,44,73,84,747,125,554,606,131,453,312],"tags":[120],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2062"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2072,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062\/revisions\/2072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}