Invisible Foreigner

Reading List (2010)

1. Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible - David Plotz

2. Under God: Religion and American Politics - Gary Wills

3. The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power - Jeff Sharlet

4. Friendship at the Margins: Discovering Mutuality in Service and Mission (Resources for Reconciliation) - Christopher L. Heuertz and Christine D. Pohl

5. Respect in a World of Inequality - Richard Sennett

6. Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion - Fr. Gregory Boyle

7. On Evil- Terry Eagleton

8. Fear and Trembling - Soren Kierkegaard

9. To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility - Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

10. Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation - Parker Palmer

11. Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing - Soren Kierkegaard

12. The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible - A.J. Jacobs

13. American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America - Chris Hedges

14. I Know I Am, But What Are You? - Samantha Bee

15. The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind - Mark Noll

16. Evangelical is Not Enough: Worship of God in Liturgy and Sacrament - Thomas Howard

17. Hannah’s Child: A Theologian’s Memoir- Stanley Hauerwas

18. Orthodoxy - G.K. Chesteron

19. Dry Bones Rattling: Community Building to Revitalize American Democracy (Princeton Studies in American Politics) - Mark R. Warren

20. Rules for Radicals - Saul Alinsky

21. Christianity, Democracy, and the Radical Ordinary: Conversations between a Radical Democrat and a Christian Romand Coles and Stanley Hauerwas

22. Christianity and Contemporary Politics: The Conditions and Possibilites of Faithful Witness - Luke Bretherton

23. Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road - Donald Miller

24. A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: How I Learned to Live a Better Story - Donald Miller

25. Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves - Adam Hochschild

26. The Gospel of Father Joe: Revolutions and Revelations in the Slums of Bangkok - Greg Barrett

27. True Notebooks: A Writer’s Year at Juvenile Hall - Mark Salzman

28. The Good Soldiers - David Finkel

29.The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Building Peace - John Paul Lederach

30. The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis - Jeremy Rifkin

31. Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan - Greg Mortenson

32. Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace… One School at a Time - Greg Mortenson