The Equally Audacious but Hopefully More Successful 2014 Reading List
So last year I read a decent amount, just not what I planned to read necessarily.
Here’s to sticking to the plan this year!
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January
The Locust Effect: Why The End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence
(Gary Haugen and Victor Boutros)
Educating All God’s Children: What Christians Can – and Should – Do to Improve Public Education for Low-Income Kids
(Nicole Baker Fulgham)
February
Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible’s View of Women
(Sarah Bessey)
Growing Strong Daughters: Encouraging Girls to Become All They’re Meant to Be
(Lisa Graham McMinn)
March
Beauty will Save the World: Rediscovering the Allure and Mystery of Christianity
(Brian Zahnd)
The Crowd the Critic and the Muse: A Book for Creators
(Michael Gungor)
The Next Evangelicalism: Freeing the Church from Western Cultural Captivity
(Soong-Chan Rah)
April
The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel
(Barbara Kingsolver)
Red Moon Rising: How 24-7 Prayer is Awakening a Generation
(Pete Greig, Dave Roberts, and Peter Greig)
How Shall We Worship?
(Marva J. Dawn)
May
Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness and Reconciliation
(Miroslav Volf)
Disunity in Christ: Uncovering the Hidden Forces that Keep Us Apart
(Christena Cleveland)
June
The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See
(Richard Rohr)
Mudhouse Sabbath: An Invitation to a Life of Spiritual Discipline
(Lauren F. Winter)
A Royal ‘Waste’ of Time: The Splendor of Worshipping God and Being Church for the World
(Marva J. Dawn)
July
Jesus Have I Loved, but Paul? A Narrative Approach to the Problem of Pauline Christianity
(J.R. Daniel Kirk)
Sacred Unions, Sacred Passions: Engaging the Mystery of Friendship Between Men and Women
(Dan J. Brennan)
August
Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Faith in Community
(Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
1984
(George Orwell)
September
Forgive Us: Confessions of a Compromised Faith
(Mae Elise Cannon, Lisa Sharon Harper, Troy Jackson and Soong-Chan Rah)
The Color Purple
(Alice Walker)
October
Down We Go: Living Into the Wild Ways of Jesus
(Kathy Escobar)
Hope Abundant: Third World and Indigenous Women’s Theology
(Kwok Pui-lan)
November
Their Eyes Were Watching God
(Zora Neale Hurston)
Shalom and the Community of Creation: An Indigenous Vision
(Randy Woodley)
December
7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess
(Jen Hatmaker)
Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
(Anne Lamott)
I super like this. I’m going to definitely read some of these.
I hope to read more Marva Dawn this year too, I read her book “Unfettered hope” last year, and parts of “Keeping the Sabbath Wholly.” She is so prolific! I also want to read Cristena Cleveland’s book as well, since I enjoy her blog a lot.
I just finished DIsunity in Christ by Christena Cleveland. I would consider it a must read, if you want to borrow it in May let me know!
I just finished Disunity in Christ by Christena Cleveland. I would say it is a must read, let me know if you want to borrow it in may!