A Book Called Meh
I don't often recommend books I haven't yet read, but I recently did with Scot McKnight and Laura Barringer, A Church Called Tov: Forming a Goodness Culture (Tyndale, 2020). Partly this was because I thought the topic to be timely. I'm sick of hearing about prominent "celebrity" pastors failing and their ministries' toxic celebrity culture brushing off victims and voices in opposition. McKnight and Barringer (McKnight's daughter) had both attended Willow Creek in the past with front-row seats to their handling of Bill Hybels' fail. I also recommended the book sight unseen because I very much like and trust Scot [...]
