{"id":5081,"date":"2014-12-30T00:00:32","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T06:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=5081"},"modified":"2020-12-06T15:17:56","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T21:17:56","slug":"best-books-of-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=5081","title":{"rendered":"BEST BOOKS OF 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I like reading these kinds of lists. \u00a0My own list does not mean these books were published during this year, though some were. \u00a0My list also includes a few rereads that keep on giving gold.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It was fun to see that three of my books were on <em>Christianity<\/em> <em>Today&#8217;s<\/em> Best Book List.\u00a0 So, in no particular order here they are:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Surprised by Hope<\/em> by NT Wright<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Kingdom Conspiracy<\/em> by Scot McKnight<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Confessions<\/em> by Augustine (reread)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Life is a Miracle<\/em> by Wendell Berry<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Echoes of Eden<\/em>\u00a0by Jerram Barrs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>First We Read, Then We Write<\/em> by Robert Richardson (reread)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Redeemer: The Life of Jimmy Carter<\/em> by Randall Balmer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>God, Locke, and Liberty<\/em> by Joseph Loconte<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>A Change of Heart: a Personal and Theological Memoir<\/em> by Thomas Oden<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Pious Nietzsche<\/em> by Bruce Ellis Benson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>How (Not) to be Secular<\/em> by James K.A. Smith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like reading these kinds of lists. \u00a0My own list does not mean these books were published during this year, though some were. \u00a0My list also includes a few rereads that keep on giving gold. It was fun to see that three of my books were on Christianity Today&#8217;s Best Book List.\u00a0 So, in no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-favorite-books-annual-list","category-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5081"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5094,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5081\/revisions\/5094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}