Embarking

Note:  The following book list does not necessarily amount to either a recommended reading list or books with which I necessarily agree.  In fact, my general reading strategy involves reading many things that I don’t agree with in order to more deeply understand my own beliefs, to shape and form them more clearly, and to understand the viewpoint of those with whom I may not, at first blush, agree.  If you are interested in recommendations (these or other) feel free to contact me.

Here are the books I’m currently reading:

• Who Gets to Narrate the World? by Robert E. Webber
• Selected Poems by William Carlos Williams, ed. by Robert Pinsky
• Making the Best of It: Following Christ in the Real World by John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
• The New Conspirators: creating the future one mustard seed at a time by Tom Sine
• Why We’re Not Emergent by Two Guys who Should Be by Kevin DeYoung & Todd Kluck
• Jesus for President: politics for ordinary radicals by Shane Claiborne
• The Character of Theology: an introduction to its nature, task, and purpose by John Franke
• An Emergent Manifesto of Hope by various authors
• After the Death of God, by Gianni Vattimo, John Caputo, and Jeffrey Robbins
• The Story, published by Zondervan
• Culture-Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling, by Andy Crouch
• Who Stole My Church by Gordon MacDonald
• Four Views of Youth Ministry and the Church by Black, Clark, Nel, Senter, and Senter