Jess's Reviews > A Church Called Tov: Forming a Goodness Culture That Resists Abuses of Power and Promotes Healing

Reading this book felt like I just scrolled Twitter for 3 hours. As with all books, I plan to let this one simmer for a bit. But my immediate response is disappointment. For a book with such a title, it barely explains or illuminates the idea of Tov, but instead starts with the bad news and pretty much stays there. The world knows what bad churches look like. I read this book to read about a tov church. The authors wait until the end chapters to illustrate good examples of churches. I kid you not when I tell you the "what can we do" portion of the book is a paragraph on the last page of the book.
I am a huge fan of McKnight so I invariably had high hopes for this book. His books are typically scholarly, deeply researched, tied to church history and literature. I believe the authors did their due diligence with this book as well, but the evidence of those former qualities are buried under recent shock stories and news headlines. I hate to leave a bad review but would love to know from others who loved this book how it helped them move forward with. Godly vision for the church. I still feel just as disillusioned and in need of direction as when I grabbed this book for those very things in the first place.