Books from 2006 worth reading
Here’s four excellent books I’ve read this past year which are worth getting a hold of… They are Eat This Book (Eugene Peterson); Death By Suburb: How to keep the suburbs from killing your soul (David Goetz); Leading With A Limp (Dan Allender); and Exiles: Living missionally in a post-Christian culture (Michael Frost). If any [...]
Parker J. Palmer, Let Your Life Speak:
Listening for the voice of vocation (Jossey-Bass, 2000) Parker Palmer is an educator, consultant and writer. He’s also a Quaker. His writings are difficult to pigeon hole. They could easily fit under several categories such as spirituality, vocational guidance, or ‘understanding ourselves’. He has a unique style. When I first read some of Palmer’s writings, [...]
Jim Wallis, God’s Politics:
Why the Right Gets it Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It (Harper San Francisco, 2005) 374 pages, hardback In the mid 1980’s I was introduced by some colleagues to a small book that had a profound impact on me. The Call to Conversion, was written by Jim Wallis, founder and leader of Sojourners, an [...]
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