Resources and Recommendations
Books.
Currently Reading…
“Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow” by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
“Homecoming” by Yaa Gyasi
“To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings” by John O’Donohue
“The New Oxford Annotated Bible/New Revised Standard Version with the Apocrypha” 3rd Ed.
“Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years” by Diarmaid MacCulloch
“Social-Science Commentary on the Letters of Paul” by Bruce D. Malina & John J. Pilch
“The Island of Sea Women” by Lisa See
“Waking up White” by Debby Irving
Formative fiction…
“Bel Canto” by Anne Patchett
“The Book Thief” by Markus Zusak
“The Color Purple” by Alice Walker
“A Tree grows in Brooklyn” by Betty Smith
“The Parable of the Sower” by Octavia Butler
“Year of Wonders” by Geraldine Brooks
Formative non-fiction…
“Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life” by Marshall B. Rosenberg
“Overcoming Organizational Defensiveness” by Chris Argyris
“Traction: Entrepreneurial Operating System” by Gene Wickman
“A Failure of Nerve” by Edwin Friedman
“A Place of My Own: the Architecture of Daydreams” by Michael Pollan
“How to Talk so Children Listen and Listen so Children Talk” by Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish
“Forgiven & Forgiving” by William Countryman
“Shameless” by Nadia Bolz Webber
Memoirs
“The Choice” by Dr. Edith Eva Eger
“Educated”
“Tender to the Bone”
“Truth and Beauty”
“Animal, Vegetable, Miracle” by Barbara Kingsolver
“The Hiding Place” by Corrie ten Boom
“The Other Wes Moore” by Wes Moore
“The Diary of Anne Frank” by Anne Frank
“Inheritance” by Dani Shapiro
Other Tools.
Panda Planner - calendar with strategies for happiness & productivity
Peloton -workout subscription
Insight Timer - Meditation App
ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences)
Ancestry.com - Genealogy research subscription
Opioid Task Force Website - resources on finding treatment, education, prevention
St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church livestream & recorded worship
Backstory Preaching - a resource for preachers
Sacred Ground- a curriculum of curated resources for racial reconciliation work in small groups
Enneagram
Well for the Journey
Quadratos
Claggett
Center for Action and Contemplation
Brene Brown
Nadia Bolz Weber
Cristena Cleveland
Wholly Becoming
