Book Recommendations – Updated 3.2.12
Following are books I’ve both read AND recommend:
2012
- The Wisdom of Stability – Rooting Faith in a Mobile Culture (Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove)
- Foreign to Familiar – A Guide to Understanding Hot- & Cold-Climate Cultures (Sarah Lanier)
2011
- A Deadly Misunderstanding – A Congressman’s Quest to Bridge the Muslim-Christian Divide (Mark Siljander)
- Practicing the Way of Jesus – Life Together in the Kingdom of Love (Mark Scandrette)
- Speaking of Jesus – the Art of Not-Evangelism (Carl Medearis)
- The Lemon Tree – An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East (Sandy Tolan)
- Allah – A Christian Response (Miroslav Volf)
- Brain Rules – 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home & School (John Medina)
- Jesus Manifesto (Leonard Sweet, Frank Viola)
2010
- Jim and Casper Go to Church – A believer, an atheist, an unlikely friendship (Jim Henderson & Matt Casper)
- Pure Scum: The Left-out, the Right Brained, and the Grace of God (Michael Sares)
- So You Don’t Want to Go to Church Anymore? (Wayne Jacobson & Dave Coleman)
- Simply Church (Tony & Felicity Dale)
- Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
- There’s a Sheep in my Bathtub (Brian Hogan)
- An Army of Ordinary People (Felicity Dale)
- Church Planting Movements (David Garrison)
Before 2010
- Red Moon Rising (Pete Greig)
- Chasing the Dragon (Jackie Pullinger)
- Bruchko (Bruce Olson)
- Always Enough (Heidi & Rolland Baker)
- Crazy Love (Francis Chan)
- Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
- The Cross and the Switchblade (Bruce Wilkerson)
- Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire (Jim Cymbala)
- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (Ann Fadiman)
