Worth-Reading List

Key Books to Get Some Thinking Going

Rethinking Mercy and Theology

• Torture and Eucharist: Theology, Politics, and the Body of Christ, William Cavanaugh
• A Community Called Atonement, Scot McKnight
• Old Testament Ethics for the People of God, Christopher Wright
• God’s People in God’s Land: Family, Land, and Property in the Old Testament, Christopher Wright
• The Land: Place as Gift, Promise, and Challenge in Biblical Faith, Walter Brueggemann
• The Land is Mine: Six Biblical Land Ideologies, Norman Habel
• Jesus and the Nonviolent Revolution, Andre Trocme
• The Principle of Mercy: Taking the Crucified People from the Cross, Jon Sobrino
• Against Christianity, Peter Leithart
• The Micah Mandate, George Grant
• Ministries of Mercy: The Call of the Jericho Road, Timothy Keller
• Dorothy Day: A Radical Devotion, Robert Coles
• Archbishop Romero: Memories and Reflections, Jon Sobrino
• A Better Hope: Resources for a Church Confronting Capitalism, Democracy, and Postmodernity, Stanley Hauerwas
• Option for the Poor, Norbert Lohfink
• Jesus and Nonviolence: A Third Way, Walter Wink
• Christianity and Class Struggle, Abraham Kuyper

Rethinking Empire and War

• Pax Romana and the Peace of Jesus Christ, Klaus Wengst
• War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death, Norman Solomon
• The Ruses for War: American Interventions Since WWII, John Quigley
• American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U.S. Diplomacy, Andrew Bacevich
• The New American Militarism, How Americans are Seduced by War, Andrew Bacevich
• Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II, William Blum
• Endless Enemies: America’s Worldwide War Against Its Own Interests, Jonathan Kwitny
• Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq, Stephen Kinzer
• War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning, Chris Hedges
• The War on Truth: 9/11, Disinformation, and the Anatomy of Terrorism, Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed
• A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror, Alfred McCoy
• American Torture: From the Cold War to Abu Ghraib and Beyond, Michael Otterman
• Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America, Walter LaFeber
• America, Russia, and the Cold War 1945-2006, Walter LaFeber

Rethinking Economics

• Calculated Futures: Theology, Ethics, and Economics, D. Stephen Long and Nancy Ruth Fox
• Being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire, William Cavanaugh
• The Outline of Sanity, G.K. Chesterton
• The Servile State, Hillaire Belloc
• The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism Before Its Triumph, Albert Hirschman
• God and Money: The Moral Challenge of Capitalism, Charles McDaniel
• God the Economist: The Doctrine of God and Political Economy, M. Douglas Meeks
• Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism, Ha-Joon Chang
• How Rich Countries Got Rich…And Why Poor Countries Stay Poor, Erik Reinert
• The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand: Corporate Capitalism as a System of State-Guaranteed Privilege, Kevin Carson
• The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Naomi Klein
• The Big Ripoff: How Big Business and Big Government Steal Your Money, Timothy Carney
• The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time, Karl Polanyi
• The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer, Dean Baker
• False Dawn: The Illusions of Global Capitalism, John Gray
• True Cost of Low Prices: The Violence of Globalization, Vincent Gallagher
• Capitalism 3.0 - A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons, Peter Barnes
• Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, John Perkins
• The Secret History of American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth About Global Corruption, John Perkins
• A Game as Old as Empire: The Secret World of Economic Hitmen and the Web of Global Corruption, Steven Hiatt and John Perkins
• The Small Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses are Beating the Global Competition, Michael Schuman
• The Big Box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers, Stacy Mitchell