Some Good Books
July 16, 2007
Spirituality
“Mere Christianity”, CS Lewis
“The Ragamuffin Gospel”, Brennan Manning
“Ruthless Trust”, Brennan Manning
“The Screwtape Letters”, CS Lewis
“Orthodoxy”, GK Cheserton
“A Generous Orthodoxy”, Brian Mclaren
“Adventures in Missing the Point”, Tony Compolo and Brian Mclaren
“The Jesus I Never Knew”, Phil Yancey
“The Secret Message of Jesus”, Brian Mclaren
“Traveling Mercies”, Anne Lamott
“Teaching a Stone to Talk”, Ann Dillard
“The World’s Religions”, Huston Smith
“The Good Book”, Peter Gomes
“Reading the Bible Again for the First Time”, Marcus Borg
“The Tao Te Ching” Lao Tzu
“Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” Robert Pirsig
“Faith Works”, Jim Wallis
“The Dawn Mistaken for Dusk”, Leonard Sweet
“The Lost Message of Jesus”, Steve Chalke
“The Gift of the Jews”, Thomas Cahill
“Desire of the Everlasting Hills”, Thomas Cahill
“The Divine Conspiracy”, Dallas Willard
“Practicing the Presence of God”, Brother Lawrence
“Adam”, Henri Nouwen
“The Day Christ Died”, Jim Bishop
“Jesus’, Marcus Borg
“History of the End of the World”, Jonathan Kirsch
“What’s So Amazing About Grace.” Phil Yancey
“The Heart of Christianity”, Marcus Borg
“Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time”, Marcus Borg
“A Prophetic Compass for the Emerging Church”, Thomas Hohstadt
“A Cry for Mercy”, Henri Nouwen
“The Hidden Face of God”, Gerald Shroeder
“The Last Word and the Word After That”, Brian Mclaren
“Hearing God”, Richard Foster
“Miracles”, CS Lewis
“The Way of Zen” Alan W. Watts
“The Way of Perfection”, Theresa of Avilla
Other Interests
“A Sand County Almanac”, Aldo Leopold
“Walden”, Henry David Thoreau
“Desert Solitaire”, Edward Abbey
“My First Summer in the Sierra”, John Muir
“The Man Who Walked Through Time”, Colin Fletcher
“Conversations with the Archdruid”, John McPhee
“The Control of Nature”, John McPhee
“Coming into the Country”, John McPhee
“The Frontiersman”, Allen W. Eckert
“Band of Brothers”, Stephen Ambrose
“The Kite Runner”, Khaled Hosseini
“Thin Air”, Greg Child
“An Acquired Taste”, Peter Mayle
“The Man Who Ate Everything”, Jeffrey Steingarten
“America Fried”, Calvin Trillen
“Kitchen Confidental”, Anthony Bourdin
“Blue Highways”, William Least Heat Moon
“Adventures Along the Wine Route”, Kermit Lynch
“Endurance”, Matthew Langston
“The Dancing Wu Li Masters”, Gary Zukov
“The Cambridge Quintet”, John L. Casti
“The Professor and the Madman”, Simon Winchester
“Isaac’s Storm”, Erick Larson
“Three Men of the Beagle”, Richard Lee Marks
“The Centennial History of the Civil War”, Bruce Catton
“Shrouds of Glory”, Winston Groom
“The Discovers”, Daniel Boorstin
“A Hymnal”, William F. Buckley
“Decision in Philadelphia”, Christopher Collier
“Great Plains”, Ian Frazier
“The American Seasons”, Edwin Way Teale
“Night”, Elie Wiesel
“Bad Land”, Jonathan Rabin
“Into Thin Air”, John Krakauer
“Travels with Alice”, Calvin Trillin
“Warmth Disperses and Time Passes”, Hans Christian von Baeyer
“Sharp’s Rifles” (the entire series) Bernard Cornwell
“The Killer Angels”, Michael Shaara
“Of God’s and Generals”, Jeff Shaara
“The Last Full Measure”, Jeff Shaara
“Lonesome Dove”, Larry MacMurtry
“All the Pretty Horses”, Cormac McCarthy
“The Searchers”, Alan LeMay
I liked all of these. What do you recommend

July 19, 2007 at 7:51 pm
The Gulag Archipelago by Solzhennitsyn
The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Grounding fot the Metaphysics of Morals by Immnuel Kant
September 9, 2007 at 9:51 pm
All of Elie Wiesel’s works
All of Chaim Potok’s works
William Hordern, Living by Grace
George W. Forell, The Protestant Faith
George W. Forell, Faith Active in Love
Paul Tilich, Systematic Theology -3 Volumes
Phyllis Trible, God and the Rhetoric of Sexuality
Phyllis Trible, Texts Of Terror
Katheryn Pfisterer Darr, Far More Precious than Jewels
Rosemary Radford Ruether, Religion and Sexism: Images of Woman in the Jewish and Christian Traditions
R. Radford Ruether, Faith & Fratricide
Carol Newsom & Sharon Ringe, Editors, The Women’s Bible Commentary
Global Bible Commentary published by Abingdon Press
Most of the Fortress Press “Overtures To Biblical Theology” series.
Reinhold Niebuhr, Moral Man and Immoral Society
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Ethics & his Letters & Papers From Prison.
(The list is not complete by any stretch, but it will keep you occupied for a day or two).
September 9, 2007 at 11:33 pm
I’ve only read two authors on your list; Bonhoeffer and Wiesel. I must get moving. Thanks,dimlamp.
September 11, 2007 at 10:54 pm
Some of the most impacting books I’ve read in the last year are…
I am not, But I know I AM, Louie Giglio
The Dangerous Act Of Worship, Mark Labberton
Under The Overpass, Mike Yankoski
Simply Christian, N.T. Wright
The Gospel According To Starbucks, Leonard Sweet
September 11, 2007 at 11:10 pm
I like Wright and Sweet. Gotta check out this Giglio guy.
September 25, 2007 at 12:43 pm
Ack! My reading list was already overflowing! Better get to the library…
October 5, 2007 at 10:25 am
Doesnt Marcus Borg deny the miracles of Christ and a bodily ressurection? That was my impression at least. And if he does then how do you feel about that? Just curious.
Oh yeah on that note, NT Wright and Marcus Borg wrote a book together called “The Meaning of Jesus.” They basically debate about a lot of issues surrounding the life and ministry of Christ. Its quite interesting.
October 5, 2007 at 11:41 am
Borg is tricky. He likes to refer to the ‘pre-resurrection’ Jesus and the ‘post-resurrection’ Jesus in his writings. I am unsure if he believes in a literal ‘bodily’ resurrection – he seems to see it more as a ’spriritual’ resurrection in that Jesus obviously did not have a strictly ‘physical’ body as recorded in the Gospels. He sees Jesus’ divinity as being accorded him upon his resurrection. (Keeping in mind that the Son of God was present at creation).
I think there is a lot of value in making this distinction between the pre-risen and the risen Jesus. It helps me to realize that Jesus was fully man, with all the accordant warts, smells, mistakes and temptations and not some sort of ’super man’.
I have the book he wrote with NT Wright – bought it over a year ago and have not read it. Since I’ve read both of these author’s other books so recently I find that the material isn’t ‘fresh’ to hold my interest. I wish I had read it first. What a great idea for a book; a conversation between two followers of Christ who don’t happen to agree on everything.
October 23, 2007 at 12:51 pm
Any thing by Deepak Chopra
” ” ” Kahlil Gibran
” ” ” Neale Donald Walsh
” ” ” Eckhart Tolle
The Celestine Vision By James Redfield
A Course In Miracles= Foundation For Inner Peace By
The Man Him Self J. C.