Books by Rob Thain Smith
Listen before you answer.
Rob’s books examine faith, culture, leadership, public morality, and the forces dividing modern society. Each begins with a conviction: truth and compassion belong in the same conversation.
The Hear My Cry series
Listening to the other side
These books step beyond slogans and political rhetoric to examine the fears, convictions, evidence, and moral questions beneath America’s most difficult debates.
Four and Twenty Blackbirds
Power, loyalty, and truth
An insider’s account of Mars Hill Church, the trial of elder Paul Petry, and the difficult responsibility to speak when leadership and accountability break down.
Biography & memoir · Church leadership
Four and Twenty Blackbirds
The inside story of the trial of Mars Hill elder Paul Petry.
Written by a longtime church member who witnessed many of the events firsthand, this account explores the firing of respected leaders and the culture that developed within one of America’s most influential churches.
Part memoir, part historical record, and part reflection on power, loyalty, due process, and truth, the book asks how good people can make harmful decisions—and why honest examination matters more than protecting an institution’s reputation.
Hear My Cry · Listening to the Other Side
Abortion
Can a nation remain divided forever?
Rob examines the biological, philosophical, psychological, historical, legal, and spiritual dimensions of abortion, seeking first to understand before persuading. The book moves beyond slogans to consider compassion, autonomy, responsibility, and the value of human life.
Written for readers who are pro-life, pro-choice, undecided, or searching, it asks every side to think more deeply, listen more carefully, and rediscover the possibility of truth, mercy, and healing.
Hear My Cry · Listening to the Other Side
Christian Nationalism
What does “Christian Nationalism” really mean?
This book examines one of America’s most controversial cultural debates through history, Scripture, philosophy, politics, and current events. Rather than caricaturing either side, Rob explores the competing concerns shaping the debate and asks readers to distinguish legitimate questions from political stereotypes.
Written with conviction in a spirit of humility, it is an invitation to recover civil discourse, intellectual honesty, and genuine understanding in a nation that increasingly speaks past itself.
Book four
The Crime the Wasn’t
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