Favorite Books & Resources
I love reading books and listening to podcasts. I love learning from different, thoughtful, and even opposing perspectives. Some of my favorite topics to learn about include: Communal Life & the Early Church, Mental Health & Neurobiology, Faith, Justice & Politics, and Jesus & the Hebrew Scriptures. Below are several (very much non-exhaustive) lists per each topic.
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The New Parrish by Tim Soerens
Slow Church by Christopher Smith
House Church and Mission by Roger Gehring
The Patient Ferment of the Early Church by Alan Kreider
The First Urban Christians by Wayne Meeks
Paul’s Idea of Community by Robert Banks
Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
12 Marks of a New Monasticism by Rutba House
Reimagining Church by Frank Viola
The Art of Community by Christopher Vogl
Center Church by Tim Keller
Underground Church by Brian Sanders
Grace Can Lead You Home by Kevin Nye
When the Church was a Family by Joseph Hellerman
The Life We’re Looking For by Andy Crouch
Letters to the Church by Francis Chan
Confessions of an Ex-Evangelical by A.D. Thomason
Prophetic Imagination by Walter Brueggemann
Practicing the King’s Economy by Michael Rhodes
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The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
The Body Remembers by Babette Rothschild
The Anatomy of the Soul by Curt Thompson
The Healing Path by Dan Allender
Cry of the Soul by Dan Allender
Boundaries of the Soul by Allison Cook
Try Softer by Aundi Kolber
Lost Connections by Johann Hari
What Happened to You? by Bruce Perry
My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem
Healing Racial Trauma by Sheila Wise Rowe
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Gabor Mate
Unwanted by Jay Stringer
The Soul of Desire by Curt Thompson
Hold Me Tight by Sue Johnson
Attached to God by Krispin Mayfield
This Too Shall Last by KJ Ramsey
The Whole-Brain Child by Dan Siegel
When Narcissism Comes to Church by Chuck DeGroat
Redeeming Power by Diane Langberg
The Deepest Place by Curt Thompson
Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
The Brain-Based Enneagram by Jerome Lubbe
Boundaries by Henry Cloud
The Wounded Heart by Dan Allender
Trauma and Repair by Judith Herman
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Compassion & Conviction by Justin Giboney
The Church Politics Podcast
Unsettling Truths by Mark Charles
Disunity in Christ by Christena Cleveland
The Color of Compromise by Jemar Tisby
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Reparations by Duke Kwon
Welcoming the Stranger by Matthew Sorens
Refugee Workforce by Chris Chancey
Fight by Preston Sprinkle
Embodied by Preston Sprinkle
Rescuing the Gospel from the Cowboys by Richard Twiss
Slavery and the Churches in Early America (1619-1819) by Lester Scherer
Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X Kendi
Condemnation of Blackness by Khalil Muhammad
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
The New Fight for Life by Benjamin Watson
The Unsettling of America by Wendell Berry
American Holocaust by David Stannard
The Color of Money by Mehrsa Bardaran
Why Do All the Black Kids Sit Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum
The Color of Christ by Paul Harvey
The Unspoken Documentary
A Just Mission by Mekdes Haddis
The Making of Biblical Womanhood by Beth Allison Barr
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
Prophetic Lament by Soong Chan-Rah
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BEMA Podcast
The Bible Project
The Paradise King by Blaine Eldredge
Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus by Lois Tverberg
Sabbath by Dan Allender
Invitations into Abundance by Alicia Akins
Sabbath by Abraham Joshua Heschel
Jesus through Middle Eastern Eyes by Kenneth Bailey
Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes by E. Randolph Richards
Asking Better Questions of the Bible by Marty Solomon
Practice the Way by John Mark Comer
The Rock, the Road, and the Rabbi by Kathie Lee Gifford