Pat’s July Reading List

Baker, Carolyn. Confronting Christofascism. EXCELLENT

Basting, PhD., Anne. Creative Care. GOOD

Berry, Wendell. Sex, Economy, Freedom and Community. EXCELLENT

Bowler, Kate. Everything Happens for a Reason and Other Lies I’ve Loved. VERY GOOD

Bowler, Kate. No Cure For Being Human. EXCELLENT

Brown Taylor, An Altar in the World. EXCELLENT

Brueggemann, Walter. Ancient Echoes, Refusing the Fear-Filled Greed-Driven Toxicity of the Far Right. EXCELLENT

Brueggemann, Walter. Interpretation, Commentary of First and Second Samuel. EXCELLENT

Bush, Robert AB et.al. The Promise of Mediation the Transformative Approach to Conflict. EXCELLENT

Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble. EXCELLENT

Butler, Judith. Who’s Afraid of Gender? EXCELLENT

Claiborne, Shane. Common Prayer, A liturgy for Ordinary Radicals. EXCELLENT

Claiborne, Shane. The Irresistible Revolution. VERY GOOD

Cox Richardson, Heather. Democracy Awakening, Notes on the State of America. EXCELLENT

Cressman, Lisa.  Backstory Preaching, Integrating Life, Spirituality and Craft. EXCELLENT

Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne. An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States. EXCELLENT

First Nations Version, An Indigenous Translation of the New Testament. EXCELLENT

Fox, Matthew. Wrestling with the Prophets. EXCELLENT

Habel, Norman C. God Trauma and Wisdom Therapy, a Commentary on Job. EXCELLENT

Hallman, J.C. Say Anarcha, A Young Woman, a Devious Surgeon, and the Harrowing Birth of Modern Women’s Health. EXCELLENT

Hecht, M.E. et.al. Two Old Broads. DON’T BOTHER

Jones, Robert P.. The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy. EXCELLENT

Lamott, Anne. Somehow, Thoughts on Love. Meh

McCammon, Sarah. The Exvangelicals, Loving, Leaving and Leaving the White Evangelical Church. VERY GOOD

McLaren, Brian D. Life After Doom, Wisdom and Courage for a World Falling Apart. Meh

Noah, Trevor. Born a Crime, Stories from a South African Childhood. EXCELLENT

Palmer, Jim. Inner Anarchy, Dethroning God and Jesus to Save Ourselves and the World. EXCELLENT

Philyaw, Deeshaw. The Secret Lives of Church Women. DON’T BOTHER

Piazza, Michael. Vital Vintage Church. EXCELLENT

Reader’s Digest, Laughter is the Best Medicine. VERY GOOD

Schiess, Kaitlyn. The Liturgy of Politics. EXCELLENT

Schade, Leah D. Preaching in the Purple Zone, Ministry in the Red-Blue Divide. EXCELLENT

Schnase, Robert. Five Practices of Fruitful Congregations. EXCELLENT

Smith, Mitzi, J. Chloe and Her People. WEIRD

Steinke, Peter. Healthy Congregations, a Systems Approach. EXCELLENT

Steinke, Peter. How Your Church Family Works, EXCELLENT

Jackson, Maggie. Uncertain, the Wisdom and Wonder of Being Unsure. Meh

Yancey, Philip. Undone, A Modern Reading of John Donne’s Devotions. SO SO

Yanklowitz, Rabbi Dr., Shmuly, The Book of Proverbs, a Social Justice Commentary. EXCELLENT

van der Kolk, MD.. Bessel. The Body Keeps the Score. EXCELLENT

van der Kolk, MD.. Traumatic Stress, The Effects of Overwhelming Experience on Mind, Body and Society. EXCELLENT

Varencombe, Erin, et.al. After Jesus Before Christianity. EXCELLENT

Wallis, Jim. The False White Gospel. EXCELLENT

Watterson, Meggan. Mary Magdalene Revealed, the First Apostle, Her Feminist Gospel and the Christianity We Haven’t Tried Yet. EXCELLENT

Weller, Francis. The Wild Edge of Sorrow, Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief. EXCELLENT

Wilkerson, Isabel. Caste, the Origins of Our Discontent. EXCELLENT