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.

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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