Calvin's Top 40, #40: Healing for a Broken World

One of the most commented upon sections of the store is our new section "Calvin's Top 40." It has existed in seed form since my first days at the Campus Store, but it has only recently appeared in its full glory. For the uninitiated, the Top 40 is an in-store display that tracks the best selling books over the past year and collects them into one wall of quality reading. I'll post the whole list eventually, but for now I thought I'd blog my way up the list from forty to one.

Number 40 is a book that will likely go higher in the future, Stephen Monsma's Healing for a Broken World: Christian Perspectives on Public Policy. Monsma rightly lays out solidarity as a basic organizing principle for Christian involvement in politics, an emphasis that helps to trancend the neat divisions of Right vs. Left and Red vs. Blue. (Although Red vs. Blue seems quaintly 2004 during 2008's Obamamania!) Another great feature of this excellent book from Crossway is the companion video series of the same title put out by the Calvin Media Foundation. Set up to be used for weekly gatherings in churches, it touches on end-of-life issues, Creation care, terrorism, human rights, and more. As a sometime participant in a trial run of the class earlier this year at Church of the Servant I can attest that the DVD sparked helpful, if sometimes heated, debate.