Reading Lists


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John Howard Yoder, The Politics of Jesus. 
Andre Trocmé, Jesus and the Nonviolent Revolution.
Richard A. Horsley, Jesus and Empire.
Don Everts, Jesus with Dirty Feet.
N.T. Wright, Jesus and the Victory of God.
N.T. Wright, The Challenge of Jesus.
Philip Yancey, The Jesus I Never Knew.

 

CHURCH and COMMUNITY 
Eberhard Arnold, Why We Live in Community.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together.
Dave and Neta Jackson, Glimpses of Glory: The Story of Reba Place Fellowship.
Dave and Neta Jackson, Living Together in a World Falling Apart.
David Janzen, Fire, Salt and Peace.
Thomas P. Rausch, Radical Christian Communities.
Trevor J. Saxby, Pilgrims of a Common Life: Christian Community of Goods Through the Centuries. 
Jean Vanier, Community and Growth.Inhabiting the church
John Howard Yoder, Body Politics.
Rutba House, Schools for Conversion: 12 Marks of a New Monasticism.
Stanley Hauerwas, Resident Aliens.
Jacques Ellul, Anarchy and Christianity.
Tim Otto, Jon Stock, and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, Inhabiting the Church.
Gerhard Lohfink, Does God Need the Church?

 

THE POWERS

Ronald L. Sider, Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger.
Naomi Klein, NO LOGO.
Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace.
Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America.
Wes Howard-Brook and Anthony Gwyther, Unveiling Empire.Unsettling of America Kalle Lasn, Culture Jam.
Michael Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma.
Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation.
Vandana Shiva, Biopiracy.
Project for the New American Century, Rebuilding America’s Defenses.
Walter Wink, The Powers that Be.
Howard Zinn, The People’s History of the United States of America.
Steven Bouma-Prediger, For the Beauty of the Earth.
David Korten, When Corporations Rule the World.
Justo Gonzalez, Faith and Wealth.

 

DISCIPLESHIP 
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship.
Robert Ellsberg, All Saints. Richard B. Hays, The Moral Vision of the New Testament.
Henri Nouwen, The Wounded Healer.cost-of-discipleship
John Michael Talbot, Simplicity.
Dorothy Day, Loaves and Fishes.
Dorothy Day, Selected Writings.
Louis F. Fisher, ed., The Essential Gandhi.
Shane Claiborne, The Irresistible Revolution.
Christine Pohl, Making Room.
Philip Yancey, What’s So Amazing About Grace? 
Walter Brueggeman, The Prophetic Imagination.
Brennan Manning, The Signature of Jesus.
Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering our Hidden Life in God.
Joan Chittester, The Rule of Benedict: Insight for the Ages.