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AUMC BOOK CLUB - PASTOR'S READING LIST
 
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Category Title Author Rating Comments
General Interest   Deep Economy   Bill McKibben   *****    
General Interest   The Healing of America   T.R. Reid   *****    
Important   The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus   Amy-Jill Levine   *****    
Important   Surprised by Hope, Rethinking Heaven, Resurrection   N.T. Wright   *****    
Important   Building a People of Power, Equipping Churches to Transform Their Communities   Robert Linthicum   *****    
Important   Christianity for the Rest of Us   Diana Butler Bass   *****    
Important   Growing Spiritual Redwoods   William Easum and Tom Bandy   *****    
Important   Unfreezing Moves   Bill Easum   *****    
Important   A Generous Orthodoxy   Brian McLaren   *****    
Important   A New Kind of Christian   Brian McLaren   *****    
Important   Finding Our Way Again, The Return of the Ancient Practices   Brian McLaren   *****    
Important   Traveling Mercies, Some Thoughts on Faith   Ann Lamott   *****    
Important   Uncommon Sense   Homer Rodgers   *****    
Important   Winter Grace, Spirituality for the Later Years   Kathleen Fischer   *****    
Important   Life of the Beloved   Henri Nouwen   *****    
Important   Other books written by Henri Nouwen   Henri Nouwen   *****    
Important   A Grace Disguised, How the Soul Grows Through Loss   Gerald Sittser   *****    
Important   Under the Unpredictable Plant, An Exploration of Vocational Holiness   Eugene Peterson   *****    
Novels   Broken for You   Stephanie Kallos   *****    
Novels   Cutting for Stone   Abraham Varghese   *****    
Novels   Eternal on the Water   Joseph Monniger   *****    
Novels   Eventide and Plainsong   Kent Haruf   *****    
On Prayer   Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer   David Steindl-Rast   *****    
On Prayer   Courage to Pray   Anthony Bloom   *****    
On Prayer   Dimensions to Prayer   Douglas Steere   *****    
On Prayer   The Practice of the Presence of God   Brother Lawrence   *****    
On Prayer   Prayer, Stress and Your Inner Wounds   Flora Weullner   *****    
On Prayer   Prayer and Our Bodies   Flora Wuellner   *****    
On Prayer   Heart of Healing, Heart of Light   Flora Wuellner   *****    
On Prayer   Learning to Forgive   Doris Donnelly   *****    
Poetry   Passing Through   Stanley Kunitz   *****    
Poetry   Moon Crossing Bridge   Tess Gallagher   *****    
Poetry   Sabbaths   Wendell Berry   *****    
Poetry   New and Selected Poems   Mary Oliver   *****    
Poetry   Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey   Hayden Carruth   *****    
Poetry   The Silence Now   May Sarton   *****    
Poetry   Delicious Laughter   Rumi   *****    
Poetry   Delights and Shadows   Ted Kooser   *****    
Poetry   Ode to Common Things   Pablo Neruda   *****    
Poetry   Atlantis   Mark Doty   *****    
Poetry   Collected Poems   Jane Kenyon   *****    
Poetry   Door in the Hive   Denise Levertov   *****    
Poetry   Works by Stephen Dunn   Stephen Dunn   *****    
Poetry   Works by Donald Justice   Donald Justice   *****    
Poetry   Works by Lucille Clifton   Lucille Clifton   *****    
Poetry   Works by Sharon Olds   Sharon Olds   *****    
Poetry   Works by Gary Snyder   Gary Snyder   *****    
Poetry   Works by William Stafford   William Stafford   *****    
Poetry   Works by Robert Bly   Robert Bly   *****    
Poetry   Works by Donald Hall   Donald Hall   *****    
Poetry   Works by Theodore Roethke   Theodore Roethke   *****    
Poetry   Works by Anne Sexton   Anne Sexton   *****    
Spirituality   Take This Bread   Sara Miles   *****    
Spirituality   The Irresistable Revolution   Shane Claiborne   *****    
Spirituality   Blue Like Jazz   Donald Miller   *****    
Spirituality   Leaving Church   Barbara Brown Taylor   *****    
Spirituality   An Altar in the World, A Geography of Faith   Barbara Brown Taylor   *****    
Theology   Reading Judas   Elaine Pagels & Karen King   *****    
Theology   When God Interrupts   M. Craig Barnes   *****    
Theology   Searching for Home   M. Craig Barnes   *****    
Theology   Amish Grace, How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy   Donald Kraybill, Nolt & Waever-Zercher   *****    
Theology   Not Ashamed of the Gospel   Fleming Ruthledge   *****    
Theology   Jesus Wants to Save Christians   Rob Bell & Don Golden   *****