Lots of Books on Religion Over the Last Month

Founding Faith: How Our Founding Fathers Forged a Radical New Approach to Religious Liberty - Steven Waldman; "America's national origins are neither Christian, as some insist, nor secular, as others claim. Rather, Waldman, a founder of Beliefnet.com, writes as he makes a full and fair survey of the founders' religious views, their faith was religious liberty - a revolutionary formula for promoting faith by leaving it alone"

Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous and Inspiring Thing I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible - David Plotz; "And so he began posting his impressions on Slate as, at age 35, he read all the way through the Hebrew Bible for the first time, without the help of any books or experts, offering unvarnished reactions and analysis that have now been gathered between hard covers and supplemented with an introduction, epilogue and lists: The Bible's 12 Best Pickup Lines, Eleven Heroes You Don't Want to Be Named After, My Favorite Prostitutes. He uses one of the newest, most fleeting genres we have (the blog) to examine one of our oldest, most enduring books."

Jesus, Interrupted - Bart D. Ehrman; "seems to be riding the same anti-religion wave that has swept Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins (The God Delusion) and Christopher Hitchens (God Is Not Great) onto the best-seller list and late-night talk shows. But he says that while they share some readers, he tries to distance himself from the so-called new atheists. "They seem to understand so little about religion," he told me in a telephone interview. "If somebody attacked science with as little knowledge, they'd be laughed off the map."

The Purpose-Driven Life - Rick Warren; "Finding meaning in one's life through God"

Take One - Karen Kingsbury; "Christian filmmakers engage in a desperate attempt to keep their dream project from falling apart"