Summer Reading
Looking for summer reading suggestions to keep you engaged and entertained?
Check out what our pastors have been reading!
Fiction
Barbara Miner
- Once Upon a Wardrobe by Patti Callahan
Lauren Todd
- The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Christian Life
Barbara Miner
- Disappointment with God by Philip Yancy
- Don’t Look Back: Methodist Hope for What Comes Next by William Willimon
Daniel Park
- Jesus Manifesto by Leonard Sweet and Frank Viola
- Methodist Doctrine by Ted A. Campbell
Isaiah Park
- So Beautiful: Divine Design for Life and the Church by Leonard Sweet
- Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory by Tod Bolsinger
Lauren Todd
- A Rhythm of Prayer: A Collection of Meditations for Renewal edited by Sarah Bessy
Non-Fiction
Barbara Miner
- From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life by Arthur C. Brooks
- Women Rowing North: Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing As We Age by Mary Pipher
Daniel Park
- American Saint: Francis Asbury and the Methodists by John Wigger
Isaiah Park
- The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown
Lauren Todd
- God is Red: The Secret Story of How Christianity Survived and Flourished in Communist China by Liao Yiwu
- My Body is Not a Prayer Request: Disability Justice in the Church by Amy Kenny
2022 Pastors’ Summer Reading
Fiction
Beartown by Fredrik Backman
Us Against You (Beartown #2) by Fredrik Backman
And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Christian Life
Freeing Jesus: Rediscovering Jesus as Friend, Teacher, Savior, Lord, Way, and Presence by Diana Butler Bass
Jesus: A Theography by Leonard Sweet and Frank Viola
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
The Patient Ferment of the Early Church: The Improbable Rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire by Alan Kreider
Subversive Sabbath: The Surprising Power of Rest in a Nonstop World by A. J. Swoboda
The Whole Language: The Power of Extravagant Tenderness by Gregory Boyle
Wholehearted Faith by Rachel Held Evans with Jeff Chu
Non-Fiction
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande