Currently Reading

Read to Date 2008

Provocative Faith: Walking Away from Ordinary by Matthew Paul Turner
Beatitude by Matthew Paul Turner
Running for Mortals by John Bingham, Jenny Hadfield
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene
Samson and the Pirate Monks by Nate Larkin
Pagan Christianity: Exploring the Roots of Our Christian Practices by Viola and Barna
Manhunt: The 12 Day Chase to Catch Lincoln’s Killer by James Swanson
Jesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals by Shane Claibourne
The Imagineering Way: Ideas to Ignite Your Creativity by the Imagineers
Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire by Jim Cymbala
Apocalypse 2012: An Investigation into Civilization’s End by Lawrence E. Joseph
Looking for God: An Unexpected Journey through Tattoos, Tofu, and Pronouns by Nancy Ortberg
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
The Organic God by Margaret Feinberg
The Great Awakening: Reviving Faith & Politics in a Post-Religious Right America by Jim Wallis
Beautiful Boy by David Sheff
leading From the Second Chair by Mike Bonem and Roger Patterson
Walt Disney by Neal Gabler
Finding Our Way Again by Brian McLaren

Most of the Books I Read in 2007

The Forgotten Ways by Alan Hirsh
Amazing Grace in the Life of William Wilberforce by John Piper
Youth Ministry Mutiny by Greg Stier
Sex God by Rob Bell
Through a Screen Darkly by Jeffrey Overstreet
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
The Spark: Igniting the Creative Power That Lives Within Us All by Heward & Bacon
Presence-Centered Youth Ministry: Guiding Students into Spiritual Formation by Mike King
They Like Jesus but Not the Church by Dan Kimball
Unhooked: How Young Women Persue Sex, Delay Love, and Lose at Both by Laura Sessions Stepp
The Big Idea by Dave Freguson
The Culturally-Savvy Christian by Dick Staub
The Dip by Seth Godin
CS Lewis in a Time of War by Justin Phillips
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling
Peppermint-Filled Pinatats by Eric Michael Bryant
Holy Discontent by Bill Hybels
Dare2Share by Greg Stier
Jesus-Centered Youth Ministry by Rick Lawrence
The Gospel According to the Simpsons, Bigger and Possibly Even Better! Edition: With a New Afterword Exploring South Park, Family Guy, and Other Animated TV Shows by Mark Pinsky
Religious Literacy by Stephen Prothero
Getting Students to Show Up: Practical Ideas for Any Eventfrom 10 to 10,000 by Jonathan McKee
Messy Spirituality by Mike Yaconelli
Jesus Mean and Wild by Mark Galli
Questions to All Your Answers by Roger E. Olson
Everything Must Change by Brian McLaren
UnChristian by David Kinnaman & Gabe Lyons
The Year of Living Bibilically by A.J. Jacobs
Born Standing Up by Steve Martin
I Am America (And So Can You) by Stephen Colbert
The Dangerous Act of Worship by Mark Labberton
Simple Church by Thom S. Rainer, Eric Geiger
The Three Signs of a Miserable Job by Patrick Lencioni
The New Frontier by Darwyn Cooke
Going All the Way by Craig Groeschel