Book List

Read since 1999
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Contents of the Page
Community
Culture
Environment
Ethics
Globalization
History
Journals
Ministry
Religion and Science
Spirituality
Theology

Ministry:
Tom Beaudoin, Virtual Faith (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1998)

Robert A. Chestnut, Transforming the Mainline Church (Geneva, 2000)

Richard G. Cote, Re-Visioning Mission: The Catholic Church and and Culture in Post-Modern America (Paulist Press, 1996)

Douglas John Hall. The End of Christendom and the Future of Christianity (Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2002)

Eric H. F. Law, The Bush Was Blazing But Not Consumed (Chalice Press, 1996)

Loren B. Mead, The Once and Future Church. (New York: Alban Institute, 1992).

J. Richard Middleton and Brian J. Walsh, Truth Is Stranger Than it Used to Be: Biblical Faith in a Postmodern Age (InterVaristy, 1995)

Danny E. Morris and Charles M. Olsen, Discerning God's Will Together: A Spiritual Practice for the Church (Alban, 1997)

Gustav Nelson, Service is the Point:Members as Ministers to the World (Abingdon, 2000)

Charles M. Olsen, Transforming Church Boards into Communities of Spiritual Leaders (Alban, 2000)

Roy M. Oswald and Robert E. Friedlich, Jr., Discerning Your Congregation' s Future: A Strategic and Spiritual Approach (Alban, 1996)

Gilbert Rindel, Leading Change in the Congregation (Alban, 1998)

Gene Edward Veith, Jr. Postmodern Times: A Christian Guide to Contemporary Thought and Culture (Crossway Books, 1994)

Spirituality
Dean Brackley. The Call to Discernment in Troubled Times (Crossroad, 2004)

Ann Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith (Penguin, 2005)

Elizabeth O'Connor.  Servant Leaders, Servant Structures (Servant Leadership School, 2000)

Ethics:
Robert L. Brawley, Biblical Ethics and Homosexuality (Westminster, 1996)

Jimmy Carter, Our Endangered Values (Simon and Schuster, 2006)

Thomas Derr, James Nash, Richard John Neuhaus, and Max L. Stackhouse, Environmental Ethics and Christian Humanism  (Abingdon, 1997)

John B. Cobb, Jr. Is It Too Late? A Theology of Ecology (Environmental Ethics Books, 1995)

Stanley Hauerwas. Performing the Faith: Bonhoeffer and the Practice of Non-Violence (Brazos Press, 2004)

Ross and Gloria Kinsler, The Biblical Jubilee and the Struggle for Life (Orbis, 1999)

Desmond Tutu. No Future Without Forgiveness (Random House, 1999)

Jim Wallis, God's Politics (Harper Collins, 2005)

Walter Wink. Jesus and Non-Violence: A Third Way (Fortress, 2003)

Naming the Powers: The Language of Power in the New Testament (Fortress, 1984)

Unmasking the Powers: The Invisible Powers that Determine Human Existence (Fortress, 1986)   

 Engaging the Powers: Discernment and Resistance in a World of Domination (Fortress, 1992)

When the Powers Fall: Reconciliation in the Healing of Nations (Fortress, 1998)

John Howard Yoder. The Politics of Jesus (Eerdmans, 1972)

The Original Revolution (Herald Press, 1977)

Nevertheless: Varieties of Relgious Pacifism (Herald Press, 1992)

Religion and Science:
Jane Goodall,  Reason For Hope (Warner Books, 1999)

Stephen Jay Gould, Rock of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fulness of Life (New Star Media, 1999)

Brian Green, The Elegant Universe (W.W. Norton and Company, 1999)

The Fabric of the Cosmos (2004)

John F Haught, Science and Religion: From Conflict to Conversation (Paulist Press, 1995)

Haught, God After Darwin (Westview Press, 2000)

Stephen Hawkings,  A Brief History of Time.

The Universe in a Nutshell (Bantam, 2001)

Nick Herbert, Quantum Reality: Beyond the New Physics (Anchor Books, 1985)

Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan, Micro-Cosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution (New York: Summit Books, 1986)

John Polkinghorne, Belief in God in an Age of Science (Yale, 1998)

Serious Talk: Science and Religion in Dialogue (Trinity Press, 1995)

Holmes Rolston, III, Environmental Ethics (Philadelphia: Temple, 1988)

Genes, Genesis, and God (Cambridge, 1999)

Gerald L. Schroeder, The Science of God (Broadway, 1997)

Ian Stewart, Does God Play Dice?: The Mathematics of Chaos (Blackwell, 1990)

Theology:

David Balch, editor, Homosexuality, Science, the "Plain Sense" of Scripture (Eerdmans, 2000)

Alan A. Boesak. Comfort and Protest: The Apocalypse from a South African Perspective (Westminster, 1987)

Marcus Borg, Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time (Harper Collins, 1995)

Walter Brueggemann, Old Testament Thology (Augsburg, 1999)

John Dominic Crossan, Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography (Harper, 1994)

Ted V. Foote, Jr. and P. Alex Thornburg, Being Presbyterian in the Bible Belt (Geneva, 2000)

Beth Ann Gaede, editor, Congregations Talking about Homosexuality (Alban, 1998)

Douglas John Hall, Theology for an American Context (Fortress)

Richard A. Horsley, Jesus and Empire: The Kingdom of God and the New World Disorder (Fortress, 2003)

Patrick Miller, Interpreting the Psalms (Fortress Press, 1986)

Frances Taylor Gench, Back to the Well (Westminster-John Knox, 2004)

Choon-Leong Seow, editor, Homosexuality and Christian Community (Westminster, 1999)

Desmond Tutu, God Has a Dream (Doubleday, 2004)
                         No Future without Forgiveness (Image, 1999)

Phillip Yancey, The Jesus I Never Knew (Zondervan, 1999)

Parker Williamson, Standing Firm (PLC, 1996)

Environment:
Elizabeth Colbert, Field Notes on a Catastrophe (Simon and Schuster, 2006)

David Orr, Ecological Literacy (SUNY Press, 1992)

David Pearson, Earth Spirit (Chronicle Books, 1994)

Zimmerman, Callicot, Sessions et.al., Environmental Philosophy, (Prentice Hall, 1998)

Community:
William Vitek and Wes Jackson, Rooted in the Land: Essays in Community and Place (Yale University Press, 1996)

Globalization:
Herman Daly, Beyond Growth (Boston: Beacon Press, 1996.)

Thoams Friedman, The World Is Flat

David C. Korten, When Corporations Rule the World (Copublished by Kumarian Press and Berret-Koehler Publishers, 1995.)

John Perkins, Confessions of and Economic Hit Man (Blackstone, 2004)

See also Kinsler and Kinsler in Ehtics

History:
Peter Ackerman and Jack Duvall, A Force More Powerful:A Century of Nonviolent Conflict (Pilgrave 2000)

Fred Anderson, The War That Made America: A Short History of the French and Indian War (Tantor Media, 2005)

Michael Knox Beran, Jefferson's Demons

Robert Baer, See No Evil (2002)

Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton (Penguin, 2004)

Richard Clark, Against All Enemies (Simon and Schuster, 2004)

Hillary Clinton, Living History (Simon and Schuster)

George Crile, Charlie Wilson's War (Blackstone, 2004)

Stephen Dudley, Walking Ghosts: Murder and Guerrilla Politics in Colombia (Routledge, 2004)

Joseph J. Ellis, His Excellency: George Washington (2004)

Anne Garrels, Naked in Baghdad (Holzbink Publishers, 2003)

Doris Kearns Goodwin, No Ordinary Time: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Simon and Schuster, 1995)

Walter Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin (Simon and Schuster, 2003)

Chalmers Johnson, The Sorrows of Empire (Metropolitan Books, 2004)

Haynes Johnson, Age of Anxiety (Highbridge Co., 2005)

David McCullough, John Adams (Simon and Schuster, 2001

Kevin Phillips, American Theocracy (Penguin, 2006)

Jorge Ramos, Latino Wave (Harper Collins, 2004)

James Risen, State of War (Simon and Schuster, 2006)

Colie Roberts, Founding Mothers (Harper Collins, 2004)

Evan Thomas, John Paul Jones (Tanor Media, 2003)

Elie Wiesel, Night


Culture:

Karen Armstrong, The Battle For God (Ballantine, 2000)

Meron Benvenisti, Sacred Landscapes: The Buried History of the Holy Land Since 1948 (U. of California, 2000)

Tony Blankley, The West's Last Chance (Blackstone, 2005)

Thomas L. Friedman, Longitudes and Latitudes: Exploring the World After September 11 (Holtsbrinck Pub., 2002)

 Journals I read regularly:

Environmental Ethics        Christian Century                    Presbyterian Outlook

Presbyterians Today            Rolling Stone                           Newsweek