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I love to read – anything.

In process

• School of the Pilgrim:  An Alternative Path to Christian Growth ♦ Brett Webb-Mitchell
• Saved from Sacrifice: A Theology of the Cross ♦ Mark Heim

Stuff I Read…Over and Over

• Bird by Bird ♦ Anne Lamott
• Confessing Christ in the Twenty-First Century ♦ Mark Douglas
• Transforming Mission ♦ David Bosch
• Mudhouse Sabbath ♦ Lauren Winner

Winter 2010-2011

• Extraordinary, Ordinary People ♦ Condoleezza Rice
• Game Change: Obama & the Clintons, McCain & Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime ♦ John Heilemann
• White House Diary ♦ Jimmy Carter

Fall 2010

• The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest ♦ Stieg Larsson
• The Worshiping Body:  The Art of Leading Worship ♦ Kimberly Long
• The Girl Who Played With Fire ♦ Stieg Larsson

Summer 2010

• Finding Words for Worship ♦ Ruth Duck
• Journey to the Common Good ♦ Walter Brueggemann
• The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo ♦ Stieg Larsson
• The Lonely Polygamist ♦ Brady Udall
• Missional Renaissance ♦ Reggie McNeal

Spring 2010

• Imperfect Birds ♦ Anne Lamott
• Stones into Schools ♦ Greg Mortenson
• This Odd & Wondrous Calling ♦ Lillian Daniel and Martin Copenhaver
• Practicing Greatness ♦ Regigie McNeal

Winter 2010

• The Healing of America ♦ T.R. Reid
• Simply Christian ♦ N.T. Wright
• Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy ♦ Kraybill, Nolt and Weaver-Zercher
• Margins ♦ Richard Swenson
• Antagonists in the Church ♦ Haugk
• The Help ♦ Stockett
• The Family ♦ Sharlet

Fall 2009

• Still Alice ♦ Lisa Genova
• True Compass:  A Memoir ♦ Edward Kennedy
• Religion in America: A Very Short Introduction ♦ Timothy Beal

Summer 2009

• Take This Bread ♦ Sara Miles
• Salvation on the Small Screen? 24 Hours of Christian Television ♦ Nadia Bolz-Weber
• Tribal Church ♦ Carol Howard Merritt
• The Bible Salesman ♦ Clyde Edgerton
• Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith ♦ Rob Bell
• In-n-Out Burger: A Behind the Counter Look at the Fast-Food Chain that Breaks all the Rules ♦ Stacy Perman
• Crooked River Burning ♦ Mark Winegardner
• Here if You Need Me:  A True Story ♦ Kate Braestrup 

Spring 2009

• A People’s History of Christianity:  The Other Side of the Story ♦  Diana Butler Bass
• An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith ♦ Barbara Brown Taylor
• The Great Emergence ♦ Phyllis Tickle

Winter 2009

• Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church ♦ N.T. Wright
• Home ♦ Marilynne Robinson♦ Ori Brafman & Rod A. Beckstrom
• This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women ♦ Jay Allison and Dan Gediman
• The Starfish and the Spider:  The Unstoppable Power of Leaderlesss Organizations ♦ Brofman and Beckman
• Gilead ♦ Marilynne Robinson

Fall 2008

• Three Cups of Tea ♦ Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin
• The Shack ♦ William P. Hall
• When Not to Build:  An Architect’s Unconventional Wisdom for Growing the Church Bird by Bird ♦ Ray Bowman & Eddy Hall
• Following Jesus in a Culture of Fear ♦ Scott Bader-Saye

Summer 2008

• I Heard God Laughing:  Poems of Hope and Joy ♦ Hafiz and Daniel Ladinsky
• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle ♦ Barbara Kingsolver, et al
• Jesus for President ♦ Shane Claiborn, Chris Haw
• The Pillars of the Earth ♦ Ken Follett

Spring 2008

• Scars of War, Wounds of Peace:  The Israeli-Arab Tragedy ♦ Shlomo Ben-Ami
• Blood Brothers ♦ Elias Chacour
• Bethlehem Besieged: Stories of Hope in Times of Trouble ♦ Mitri Raheb