Here are the 99 books read in 2022 - my top ten are highlighted... do LMK your top reads!
12/22 - Inside Job
Stephen Smith
This is a Christian, IVP, book on vocation, by a retreat leader in Colorado who describes the importance of taking care of your inside - spirit and soul - as the key to any sort of success
12/22 - Body of Work
Pamela Slim
The best book I’ve read - secular mind you - to help you figure out what to do, vocationally, and how to get there. Written by a life coach and HR consultant who’s really talented.
12/22 - Just Courage
Gary Haugen
Gary’s an Ivy League lawyer who founded the evangelical International Justice Ministry to free sex slaves and sweatshop slaves. The book is aimed at young people he’s trying to recruit to his ministry - mostly lawyers he wants to send to far flung places
12/22 - Living in Christ’s Presence
Dallas Willard/John Ortberg
This is the product of a Santa Barbara conference at the end of Dallas’ life. Ortberg interviews him after every chapter. It’s them is to focus on the inner voice of Christ, being evangelical it is more interested in personal piety vs social justice.
12/22 - Being Human
Rowan Williams
This 3rd in a trilogy is dense reading. However the nuggets on the importance of love and living into our humanity - vs ‘we’re just complex machines’ is formidable. A Cambridge Don, he is conversing with the secular atheist at every turn.
12/22 - Shaping the Prayers of the People
Samuel Wells and Abigail Kocher
This is an excellent, practical book! I will use it often. It offers a theology and examples of why and how to do the POP with grace and conviction.
12/22 - The Healthy Churches' Handbook
Robert Warren
No relation to Rick Warren, this CofE vicar turned consultant offers a course in mainline church diagnosis and a path forward to health and growth out of his context.
12/22 - Saint Benedict on the Freeway
Corinne Ware
A wonderful book on how to center on the inner life by an ECUSA theologian and retreat leader. Helps us put Benedict’s insights into daily use.
12/22 - The Perfect Stranger's Guide to Funerals and
Grieving Practices - Stuart Matlins, ed.
An interesting, probably dated, book listing every religious tradition and 2-pages on what to do when someone of that persuasion dies.
12/22 - Frameworks
Eric Larson
Eric’s an evangelical and tries to help non-Bible reading teens pick up the Bible. It is, hence, simplified and somewhat misleading. I would not use it to teach much - though the ways he classifies some information is helpful - ie showing Jesus’ travels.
12/22 - Re-Claiming the Bible for a Non-Religious World
John Spong
12/22 - Essence of Prayer
Ruth Burrows
12/22 - The Attentive Life
Leighton Ford
12/22 - The Power of Regret
Daniel Pink
12/22 - Four Birds of Noah's Ark
Thomas Dekker
12/22 - Praying with Our Feet
Lindsey Krinks
12/22 - Almost Innocent
Shanti Brien
12/22 - What We Talk About When We Talk About God
Rob Bell
12/22 - Hear Us, O Lord
Washington National Cathedral
12/22 - The Well of Being
Jean-Piertr Weill
12/22 - I Guess I Haven't Learned That Yet
Shauna Niequust
12/22 - Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor
Halevi
11/22 - Revive Us Again
William Barber
11/22 - Start with Hello
Shannan Martin
11/22 - Death Rehearsal
Doug Pogorski
11/22 - The Happiness. Curve
Jonathan Rauch
10/22 - Unreasonable Hospitality
Will Guidara
10/22 - Fully Alive
Timothy Shriver
10/22 - Survival of the Richest
Douglas Rushkoff
10/22 - Christianity Rediscovered
Vincent Donovan
This book really helped me re-think evangelism and birth in me a renewed hunger for sharing faith. I have never felt more comfortable as an evangelist until after I read this book.
9/22 - Making Your Case
Antonio Scalia and Bryan Garner
9/22 - The Unjust Steward
Miguel Escobar
9/22 - Left Turn: Life Unimagined
Jen Eikenhorst
9/22 - Vital Signs of Faith
Kate Moorehead Carroll
9/22 - Fatal Moments
Gwendolyn Gilliam and Susan Chesser
9/22 - Do I Stay Christian?
Brian McLaren
9/22 - Capital without Borders
Brook Harrington
An amazing book. Brook, an Ivy league academic, wanted to find out more about the 1% but could not. She figured out it’s wealth managers who are in the know - so she went to school, and became one. Its insights into how the rich are getting richer at an incredible rate is a wake up call to us all.
8/22 - Divine Presence Amid Violence
Walter Brueggeman
8/22 - Jesus Wears Socks with Sandals
S. James Meyer
8/22 - Caste
Isabel Wilkerson
This is simply the best book on race relations in America I’ve read. She gives wonderful background and insight into how American slavery and Indian caste systems parallel.
8/22 - Fanocracy
David Meerman Scott and Reiko Scott
8/22 - The Beauty of Dusk
Frank Bruni
8/22 - A House Built on Live
Ed Walker
8/22 - The Me I Want to Be
John Ortberg
7/22 - American Gospel
Jon Meachum
7/22 - Think Again
Adam Grant
7/22 - A Primer for Forgetting
Lewis Hyde
7/22 - Grit
Angela Duckworth
7/22 - Let Them Eat Tweets
Hacker and Pierson
Two liberal academics parse the foundation of Trumpism without spending much time on Trump, rather how the wealthy are crafting the Republican Party to carry out their desires for lower taxes and greater accumulation of money, resources, and power.
7/22 - A Chronicle of Grief
Mel Lawrenz
7/22 - Lamb (The Gospel According to Biff)
Christopher Moore
7/22 - Tao Te Ching
Lao Tzu
6/22 - The Way of Love
Scott Gunn
6/22 - Cleopatra (skimmed)
Phyliss Schiiff
6/22 - One on One with Andy Grove
Andy Grove
6/22 - Witness Essentials
Daniel Meyer
6/22 - The Lessons of History
Will and Ariel Durant
6/22 - Woven Voices
Anika Paris et al
6/22 - Hallelujah Anyway
Anne Lamott
5/22 Mary in the Redemption
Adrienne Von Speyr (skimmed)
5/22 - In Praise of Shadows
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
5/22 - Evangelism for Non-Evangelists
Mark Teasdale (skimmed)
5/22 - The Creation Care Bible Challenge
Marek Zabriskie, Ed.
5/22 - Adolf Hitler, Volume 2
John Toland
5/22 - Reading Jesus' Bible (skimmed)
John Goldingay
5/22 - Corruptible (skimmed)
Brian Klaas
5/22 - The Ministry of Ordinary Places
Shannan Martin
4/22 - The God We Never Knew
Marcus Borg
4/22 - Adolf Hitler, Volume 1 and 2
John Toland
In these two volumes, Toland tells an insightful picture of the 20th century’s best known and most treacherous leader, giving insight into his life-long antisemitism, incredible luck (a dozen failed assassinations?), unswerving dedication, and impressive stamina he brought to his megalamoniacal cause.
4/22 - God Got a Dog
Cynthia Rylant and Marla Frazee
4/22 - The Grain of Wheat
Hans Urs von Balthazar
4/22 — Summoned
Daniel Allen, Jr (Skimmed, not a good book, too evangelical)
4/22 - The Fidelity of Betrayal
Peter Rollins
4/22 - Every Creature a Word of God
Annika Spalde and Pellet Strindlund
4/22 - Pocket Neighborhoods
Ross Chapin
3/22 - Good News for All Creation
Vegetarianism as Christian Stewardship
Stephen Kaufman and Nathan Braun
This book opens my mind about my place in creation and how I can practically and honestly help make the world better one meal at a time.
3/22 - The Art of Social Media
Guy Kawasaki and Peg Fitzpatrick
3/22 - A Joyful Heart
Martin Thornton
3/22 - Teach Us to Want
Jen Michel Pollock
3/22 - Night
Elie Wiesel
3/22 - Hackiversity
Kyle Winey
3/22 - The Passionate Intellect
Alister McGrath
3/22 - Finding My Voice
Beth Knobbe
3/22 - The Practice of Adaptive Leadership
Ron Heifetz et al. (skimmed)
3/22 - The Singer
Calvin Miller
3/22 - The Character of Virtue
Stanley Hauerwas
2/22 - Becoming a Just Church
Adam Gustine
2/22 - Taking It to the Streets
Harry Louis Williams II
2/22 - Speaking of Race
Celeste Headlee
2/22 - Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Christmas Sermons
Edwin Robertson, ed.
2/22 - Proverbs Commentary
Rabbi Mission Scherman
1/22 - Let Every Heart Prepare
Barbara Cawthorne Crafton
1/22 - Discover Joy in Work
Shundrawn Thomas
1/22 - Becoming Curious
Casey Tygrett
1/22 - Josephine Butler: A Very Brief Biography
Jane Robinson
1/22 - Insurrection
Peter Rollins
1/22 - Stillness
Ryan Holiday
1/22 - People Pleasing Pastors
Charles Stone
1/22 - Herod the Great
Adam Kolman Marshak
Adam has made his academic career out of studying this complex character, whom he describes as cunning, brilliant, and not far from the beliefs and practices of other leaders of his time.
Adam has made his academic career out of studying this complex character, whom he describes as cunning, brilliant, and not far from the beliefs and practices of other leaders of his time.
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