Diana Butler Bass Review

As a viral blogger I chose this book because I am a fairly recent Christian and did not grow up in the Church. I don't know anything about the churches history so when Diana Butler Bass's book "A People’s History of Christianity" came up for me to read I jumped at the chance. This is a great book that I highly recommend to anyone looking to know a accurate portrayal of the church and it's sometimes not perfect history.

See below for the description of her wonderful book and a also a great interview with the author:
Subtitled A History of the Grassroots Movements in Christianity that Preserved Jesus’ Message of Social Justice for 2,000 Years and Their Impact on the Church Today, Bass’s A People’s History of Christianity is written in the same spirit as Howard Zinn’s radical and groundbreaking work A People’s History of the United States. In this landmark volume, Bass reveals the under-reported movements, personalities, and spiritual practices that continue to inform and ignite contemporary Christian worship, activism, and social justice reforms in the name of Jesus. The book will offer up a much-needed “other side of the story” for missional and emerging Christians, drawing from examples of alternative practices in every period of Christian history, including:

• Care for the environment and celebrating God in nature
• Defining compassion, hospitality, and social justice as integral to the Gospel
• Peace-making as the pervasive Christian response to war
• Highlighting the female attributes of God, and the power of women in the Church
• Celebrating human sexuality as a gift from God