Recommended Reading Lists

Choose one of the following:

• Rehearsing Scripture: Discovering God’s Word in Community by Anna Carter Florence
• Preaching as Testimony by Anna Carter Florence
• Weird Church: Welcome to the Twenty-First Century by Paul Nixon and Beth Ann Estock
• I Refuse to Lead a Dying Church! by Paul Nixon
• Holy Terrors: Thinking about Religion after September 11 by Bruce Lincoln
• Invisible Weapons: Liturgy and the Making of Crusade Ideology by M. Cecilia Gaposchkin
• My Struggle: Book 1 by Karl One Knausgaard
• Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill
• Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer by Barbara Ehrenreich
• A Biblical Text and Its Afterlives by Yvonne Sherwood
• What Is Islam?: The Importance of Being Islamic by Shahab Ahmed
• Congregations in America by Mark Chaves
• American Religion: Contemporary Trends by Mark Chaves