A list of books that I have read or re-read in the last few years. Books are listed in reverse chronological order. Inspired by Chuck Grimmet, who also provided some of the code on his Github page. I only list books that I am reading for work or pleasure (i.e. most academic books and commentaries I read for sermon preparation don’t appear here). Books I particularly enjoyed for one reason or another are marked with a star (★).
Last updated March 2024
2024
10 books
2023
7 books
2022
38 books
- Chosen
- Crooked Heart
- Rewilding the Church
- Sea of Tranquility ★
- Celebrities for Jesus ★
- Danubia
- Man of Iron - Thomas Telford and the Building of Britain
- White Teeth ★
- Cloud Cuckoo Land
- The Mountains Sing ★
- Silverview
- Menschen mit Mission - eine Landkarte der evangelikalen Welt ★
- The Pastor's Bookshelf
- Resurrection
- The Hidden Life of Trees
- When Narcissism Comes to Church
- The Cross and the Lynching Tree ★
- The Night Circus ★
- Redhead by the Side of the Road
- Hanging by a Thread
- Churches and the Crisis of Decline ★
- Talking Back to Purity Culture
- The Art of Gathering - how we meet and why it matters
- The City of Brass ★
- Harlem Shuffle
- The Lord's Prayer
- The Lord's Prayer
- The Lord and His Prayer
- Amerikas Gotteskrieger ★
- The Sex Thing ★
- Walk Humbly
- How to Have an Enemy - Righteous Anger and the Work of Peace
- Fake Facts - Wie Verschwörungstheorien unser Denken bestimmen
- Messy Church 3
- A Church Called Tov
- Entangled Life - How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures ★
- Worship For Everyone - Unlocking the Transforming Power of All-Age Worship
- The Starless Sea ★
2021
43 books
- Stardust
- Trans
- The Congregation in a Secular Age ★
- God is not a White Man
- The Byzantine World War
- Europe in Winter
- Tangle's Game
- Something's Not Right - Decoding the Hidden Tactics of Abuse
- Servants - A Downstairs View of Twentieth-century Britain
- Once Upon a River ★
- Uprooted - Recovering the Legacy of the Places We've Left Behind ★
- The Pastor in a Secular Age - Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God ★
- Jesus and John Wayne ★
- Das Gemeindekarussell
- The Gospel of Ruth - Loving God Enough to Break the Rules
- No One is Talking About This
- The Gospel of Ruth - Loving God enough to break the rules
- Losing Our Minds. What Mental Illness Really Is – and What It Isn’t ★
- Fulfillment - Winning and Losing in One-Click America ★
- The Midnight Library ★
- The Reluctant Empress
- The End of Youth Ministry? Why Parents Don't Really Care about Youth Groups and What Youth Workers Should Do about It ★
- Bonhoeffer as Youth Worker - A Theological Vision for Discipleship and Life Together
- Biblical Porn - Affect, Labor, and Pastor Mark Driscoll's Evangelical Empire
- Will our children have faith?
- Die Machtfalle - Machtmenschen, wie man ihnen begegnet
- Wholeheartedness - Busyness, Exhaustion, and Healing the Divided Self
- Uprooted ★
- Karl Barth - ein Leben im Widerspruch ★
- Systemische Seelsorge - Impulse der Familien- und Systemtherapie für die kirchliche Praxis
- Night Waking
- Canoeing the Mountains
- Faith Formation in a secular age ★
- From Isolation to Community
- A Long Petal of the Sea ★
- Managing Leadership Anxiety - Yours and Theirs ★
- The Splendid and the Vile
- Emotional Agility
- The Possibility of Prayer ★
- The Year of Our Lord 1943 - Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis
- Piranesi ★
- Balm in Gilead - A Theological Dialogue with Marilynne Robinson
- New Beginnings - A Pastorate Start Up Workbook
2020
37 books
- Gottes Wort als Wirklichkeit - Die Paulus-Rezeption des jungen Karl Barth (1906-1927)
- Re-Thinking Children's Work in Churches - A Practical Guide
- The Purpose of Power
- Creating a Healthier Church - Family Systems Theory, Leadership and Congregational Life
- Beyond the Children's Corner - creating a culture of welcome for all ages
- The Pastor as Minor Poet - Text and Subtexts in the Ministerial Life ★
- English Pastoral ★
- Finding Jesus in the Storm
- The Tidal Zone ★
- Americanah
- After Whiteness
- Names for the Sea
- Summerwater
- The Hired Man
- Das Antiquariat der Träume
- Das flüssige Land ★
- Happiness ★
- The Sea Wolves
- The Glass Hotel
- Ella Minnow Pea
- The Second Sleep
- The Silk Roads ★
- Haven't you heard
- Victory in the Kitchen
- The Golem and the Djinni
- Dare to Lead
- Dawn
- Summoned from the Margin
- The Thousand Doors of January ★
- Prisoners of Geography
- The Apostles' Creed
- A Biblical Theology of Youth Ministry
- Reality, Grief, Hope
- Gods of Jade and Shadow
- Europe in Autumn
- Youth Work from Scratch
- Wyntertide