Recommended by Friends:
1. The Practice of Prophetic Imagination – Brueggemann
2. Disruptive Grace: Reflections on God, Scripture, and the Church – Brueggemann
3. Who Are You, My Daughter? – Ellen Davis
4. If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence And Spirit – Brenda Ueland
5. David Swartz, The Moral Minority: The Evangelical Left in an Age of Conservatism
6. N.T. Wright, The Kingdom New Testament.
7. Christian Smith, et al., Lost in Transition: The Dark Side of Emerging Adulthood.
8. Deborah Feldman, Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of Hasidic Roots.
9. Ross Clifford, Philip Johnson, The Cross is Not Enough: Living as Witnesses to the Resurrection
10. T.M. Luhrmann, When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God
11. Graham Hill, Salt, Light and a City: Introducing Missional Ecclesiology.
12. James E. Atwood, America and Its Guns: A Theological Expose
13. Pete Enns and Jared Byas – Genesis for Normal People
- Bittersweet by Shawna Niequist
- Bread and Wine by Shawna Niequist
16. Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
17. This Ordinary Adventure: Settling Down Without Settling by Christie Jeske
18. Practicing the Presence of People by Mike Mason
19. The Way of the Heart by Henri Nouwen
20. Whistling in the Dark: A Doubter’s Dictionary Frederick Buechner
21. The Hungering Dark Frederick Buechner
22. The Divine Conpiracy by Dallas Willard
23. The Mind of the Maker by Dorothy Sayers
24. An Altar in the World by Barbara Brown Taylor
25. I Sold My Soul on eBay by Hemant Mehta
26. No Man Is An Island by Thomas Merton
27. Invitations from God: Accepting God’s Offer to Rest, Weep, Forgive, Wait, Remember and More – Adele Ahlberg Calhoun
28. The Just Church – Jim Martin
29. Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit – Barry Estabrook
30. Anatomy of a Disappearance -Hisham Matar
Posts that gave me lists to steal from: Scot McKnight, Brenna, Kelley, and Ed’s We’re Booked series.
My Amazon list:
1. Unladylike: Resisting the Injustice of Inequality in the Church – Pam Hogeweide
2. Graceful (For Young Women): Letting Go of Your Try-Hard Life – Emily P. Freeman
3. Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus: How the Jewish Words of Jesus Can Change Your Life – Lois Tverberg
4. Church Behind the Wire: A Story of Faith in the Killing Fields – Barnabas Mam
5. Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and Mohammed Cross the Road?: Christian Identity in a Multi-Faith World – Brian D. McLaren
6. Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion – Gregory Boyle
7. Hazardous by Ed Cyzewski
8. The Violence of Love – Oscar A. Romero
9. Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the Gospels – Kenneth E. Bailey
10. A Little F’d Up: Why Feminism Is Not a Dirty Word – Julie Zeilinger
11. Down We Go: Living Into the Wild Ways Of Jesus – Kathy Escobar
12. Sideways on a Scooter: Life and Love in India- Miranda Kennedy
13. Man and Woman, One in Christ: An Exegetical and Theological Study of Paul’s Letters – Philip Barton Payne
14. The Beauty of God: Theology and the Arts – Daniel J. Treier
15. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
16. The Complete Stories – Flannery O’Connor
17. Waiting for God- Simone Weil
18. The Year of Magical Thinking –Joan Didion
19. Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer’s Life – Kathleen Norris
20. Late Nights on Air – Elizabeth Hay
21. As for Me and My House – Sinclair Ross
22. Forbidden Lessons in a Kabul Guesthouse: The True Story of a Woman Who Risked Everything to Bring Hope to Afghanistan- Suraya Sadeed
23. Three Women of Herat: A Memoir of Life, Love and Friendship in Afghanistan – Veronica Doubleday
24. Behind the Burqa: Our Life in Afghanistan And How We Escaped to Freedom – Sulima and Hala
25. The Other Side of the Sky: A Memoir – Farah Ahmedi
26. The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India – Siddhartha Deb
27. Leaving India: My Family’s Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents- Minal Hajratwala
28. Daughter of the Ganges: A Memoir – Asha Miro
29. Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World- Tracy Kidder
30. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures – Anne Fadiman
31. The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe – Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
32. The Saffron Kitchen – Yasmin Crowther
33. Wild Decembers – Edna O’Brien
34. Toxic Charity: HowChurchesand Charities Hurt Those They Help (And How to Reverse It) Robert D. Lupton
35. Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith Barbara Brown Taylor
36. The Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection by Robert Farrar Capon
37. The Art of Eating M. F. K. Fisher
- Unique: Telling Your Story in the Age of Brands and Social Media by Phil Cooke
- To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others by Daniel H. Pink
- Heroes and Monsters: An Honest Look at What It Means to Be Human by Josh James Riebock
- Now and Then: A Memoir of Vocation by Frederick Buechner
- Fundamorphosis: How I Left Fundamentalism But Didn’t Lose My Faith by Robb Ryerse
- The Cost of Community: Jesus, St. Francis and Life in the Kingdom by Jamie Arpin-Ricci
- The End of Evangelicalism? Discerning a New Faithfulness for Mission: Towards an Evangelical Political Theology by David E. Fitch
Books I own:
- Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and the Problem of the Old Testament -Peter Enns
- Bible Made Impossible, The: Why Biblicism Is Not a Truly Evangelical Reading of Scripture – Christian Smith
- The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief – Francis S. Collins
- The Evolution of Adam: What the Bible Does and Doesn’t Say about Human Origins– Peter Enns
- The Crowd, The Critic, and The Muse by M. Gungor
- A Year inProvence- Peter Mayle
- In This House of Brede – Rumer Godden
- Till We Have Faces – C.S. Lewis
- The Philosophy of Tolkien – Peter Kreeft
- Lost in the Cosmos – Walker Percy
- We Can’t Go Home Again – Max Dubinsky
- The Hole in the Gospel – Richard Stearns
- The Flower and the Nettle – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- Come Alive – Elora Nicole
- Brothers K
- Don Quixote
- The Great Gatsby
- A Passage to India- E.M. Forster
- Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
Ooh, I want to hear more about “The Practice of Prophetic Imagination!”
Me too, haha! I just realized there is one that comes before it called The Prophetic Imagination, so I just requested that from the library, and should be able to start reading it in a couple of weeks. I’m sure I’ll post something about that one!
I love your list! C.S. Lewis’s Til We Have Faces is one of my favorites!
I keep hearing this from so many people.
The Brothers K has been on my shelf for years, as has Don Quixote. Loved A Passage to India, but not my favorite Forester (that’s probably Where Angels Fear to Tread).
I’ve only read one Margaret Atwood but have been meaning to get to The Handmaid’s Tale for years.
Life is rich with a long reading list!