Reading in 2021

  1. Five Smooth Stones for Pastoral Work, Eugene Peterson (1992).
  2. To Be Made Well, Amy Julia Becker (2022).
  3. Taking America Back for God, Andrew L. Whitehead and Samuel L. Perry (2020).
  4. The King Jesus Gospel, Scot McKnight (2016).
  5. Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America, Keisha N. Blain (2021).
  6. The Overstory, Richard Powers (2019).
  7. We Are Each Other’s Harvest, Natalie Baszile (2021).
  8. The Words of Gardner Taylor, Vol. 1, Edward Taylor (1999).
  9. The Land is Not Empty, Sarah Augustine (2021).
  10. God is Red, Vine De Loria Jr. (1972).
  11. Shoutin’ in the Fire, Danté Steward (2021).
  12. Dominion: How The Christian Revolution Remade the World, Tom Holland (2021).
  13. Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World, Katharine Kayhoe (2021).
  14. Systematic Theology: Vol. 1, The Doctrine of God, Katherine Sonderegger (2015).
  15. Dorothy Day: Selected Writings, Ed. Robert Ellsberg (2005).
  16. Against Everything, Mark Grief (2017).
  17. Intimations, Zadie Smith (2020).
  18. Know Your Place, Justin Phillips (2021).
  19. The Heartbeat of Trees, Peter Wohlleben (2021).
  20. Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel (2009).
  21. Notes on Grief, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2021).
  22. On Writing, Stephen King (2020).
  23. Hood Feminism, Mikki Kendall (2020).
  24. A Beautiful Disaster, Marlena Graves (2014).
  25. The Dark Night of the Soul, St. John of the Cross.
  26. Stages of Faith, James Fowler (1981).
  27. A World on the Wing, Scott Weidensaul (2021).
  28. A Theology for Family Ministry, Michael and Michelle Anthony (2011).
  29. Honoring the Generations: Learning with Asian North American Congregations, Sydney Park, Soong-Chan Rah, and Al Tizon (2012).
  30. The Post-Black and Post-White Church, Effrem Smith (2020).
  31. Holy the Firm, Annie Dillard (1998).
  32. A Burning in My Bones, Winn Collier (2021).
  33. Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair, Duke L. Kwon and Gregory Thompson (2021).
  34. Jack, Marilynne Robinson (2020).
  35. On Wealth and Poverty, St. John Chrysostom (2020).
  36. White Evangelical Racism, Anthea Butler (2021).
  37. Silent Covenants, Derrick Bell (2005).
  38. Reading While Black, Esau McCaulley (2020).
  39. Planting a Church Without Losing Your Soul, Tim Morey (2020).
  40. Joy Unspeakable: Contemplative Practices of the Black Church, Barbara A. Holmes (2017).
  41. A Spiritual Formation Workbook, James Bryan Smith and Lynda Graybeal (2007).
  42. Infinite Impact, Stu Weber (2007).
  43. Gospel Haymanot, Vince Bantu (2020).
  44. Talking Back to Purity Culture, Rachel Joy Welcher (2020).
  45. The Divided Mind of the Black Church: Theology Piety, and Public Witness, Raphael G. Warnock (2020).
  46. Stewards of Eden, Sandra L. Richter (2020).
  47. One Long River of Song, Brian Doyle (2019).
  48. Detained and Deported, Margaret Regan (2016).
  49. Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God, Kelly Brown Douglas (2015).
  50. The Innovative Prayer Leader, C. Terrell Wheat (2020).
  51. Another Way: Living and Leading Change on Purpose, Stephen Lewis, Mathew Wesley Williams, and Dori Grinenko Baker (2020).
  52. Belonging: A Culture of Place, bell hooks (2008).
  53. The Pastor, Eugene Peterson (2012).
  54. Soul Care in African American Practice, Barbara L. Peacock (2020).
  55. Jesus and John Wayne, Kristin Kobes Du Mez (2020).
  56. After Whiteness, Willie James Jennings (2020).
  57. Midwest Futures, Phil Christman (2020).

Here’s last year’s list.