My favorite reads:
You can explore my Goodreads for my entire library, but listed below are some suggested resources (with affiliate links to purchase) in categories I get asked about often. Happy reading!
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Environmental Justice
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Keeping God's Earth: The Global Environment in Biblical Perspective by Noah J. Toly
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Making Peace with the Land by Fred Bahnson and Norman Wirzba
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Faith and Spirituality
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Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth by Richard Foster
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Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition by Christine D. Pohl
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Joy Unspeakable: Contemplative Practices of the Black Church by Barbara A. Holmes
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New Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton
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Unclean: Meditations on Purity, Hospitality, and Mortality by Richard Beck
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Subversive Sabbath: The Surprising Power of Rest in a Nonstop World by A.J. Swoboda
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Spirituality of the Psalms by Walter Brueggemann
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Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life by Tish Harrison Warren
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Grounded: Finding God in the World – A Spiritual Revolution by Diana Butler Bass
Family (Marriage and Parenting)
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The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country’s Foremost Relationship Expert by John M. Gottman and Nan Silver
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Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy by Angela Garbes
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The Whole-Brain Child: Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind by Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson
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The Danish Way of Parenting: What the Happiest People in the World Know About Raising Confident, Capable Kids by Jessica Joelle Alexander and Iben Sandahl
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It's OK Not to Share and Other Renegade Rules for Raising Competent and Compassionate Kids by Heather Shumaker
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Good Inside: A Practical Guide to Resilient Parenting Prioritizing Connection Over Correction by Becky Kennedy
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The Tech-Wise Family: Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in Its Proper Place by Andy Crouch
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Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans by Michaeleen Doucleff
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The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt
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There's No Such Thing as Bad Weather: A Scandinavian Mom's Secrets for Raising Healthy, Resilient, and Confident Kids by Linda Åkeson McGurk
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Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do by Eve Rodsky
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Woven: Nurturing a Faith Your Kid Doesn’t Have to Heal From by Meredith Miller
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Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson
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Preparing Couples for Love and Marriage: A Pastor's Resource by Cameron Lee and James L. Furrow
Gender and Sexuality
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God, Desire, and a Theology of Human Sexuality by David H. Jensen
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Discovering Biblical Equality: Complementarity Without Hierarchy by Ronald W. Pierce and Rebecca Merrill Groothuis
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Rediscovering Scripture's Vision for Women: Fresh Perspectives on Disputed Texts by Lucy Peppiatt
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Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again by Rachel Held Evans
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A Woman Called: Piecing Together the Ministry Puzzle by Sara Gaston Barton
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The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth by Beth Allison Barr
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Changing Our Mind by David Gushee
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Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
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Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How it Affects Us All by Laura Bates
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Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski
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Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon
Impactful Fiction
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Red Rising Trilogy by Pierce Brown
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Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
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The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis
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The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
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A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
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The Space Trilogy by C. S. Lewis
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Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
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Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
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Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
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Chasing Francis: A Pilgrim's Tale by Ian Morgan Cron
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab
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Things My Son Needs to Know About the World by Fredrik Backman
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The Measure by Nikki Erlick
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The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
Racial Justice
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Myths America Lives By: White Supremacy and the Stories That Give Us Meaning by Richard T. Hughes
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
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After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging by Willie James Jennings
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
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The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James Cone
Theology and the Bible
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The Prophetic Imagination by Walter Brueggemann
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Announcing the Reign of God: Evangelization and the Subversive Memory of Jesus by Mortimer Arias
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The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible by Scot McKnight
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Scandalous Witness: A Little Political Manifesto for Christians by Lee Camp
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Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation by Miroslav Volf
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Inexpressible: Hesed and the Mystery of God's Lovingkindness by Michael Card
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The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe by Richard Rohr
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The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It by Peter Enns
Worldview Shifters
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The Cave and the Light: Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization by Arthur Herman
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Age of Anger: A History of the Present by Pankaj Mishra
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The Complete Enneagram: 27 Paths to Greater Self-Knowledge by Beatrice Chestnut
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Anatomy of the Soul: Surprising Connections Between Neuroscience and Spiritual Practices that Can Transform Your Life and Relationships by Curt Thompson
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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
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Designed to Heal: What the Body Shows Us about Healing Wounds, Repairing Relationships, and Restoring Community by Jennie A. McLaurin and Cymbeline Tancongco Culiat
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
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An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong
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The Shape of Joy: The Transformative Power of Moving Beyond Yourself by Richard Beck
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The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life by Anu Partanen
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The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief by Francis Weller
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Built to Move: The Ten Essential Habits to Help You Move Freely and Live Fully by Kelly Starrett and Juliet Starrett
