Becoming Human
10 best books like Becoming Human (Jean Vanier): February, The Genesee Diary: Report from a Trappist Monastery, How Rich Countries Got Rich And Why Poor Countries Stay Poor, Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again, The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society, How the Bible Actually Works: In Which I Explain How An Ancient, Ambiguous, and Diverse Book Leads Us to Wisdom Rather Than Answers—and Why That's Great News, Living Gently in a Violent World: The Prophetic Witness of Weakness, Why Globalization Works, Letter to a Suffering Church: A Bishop Speaks on the Sexual Abuse Crisis
Winner of Canada Reads 2013 and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize
In 1982, the oil rig Ocean Ranger sank off the coast of Newfoundland during a Valentine's Day storm. All eighty-four men aboard died. February is the story of Helen O'Mara, one of those left behind when her husband, Cal,...
| Author | Henri J.M. Nouwen |
| ISBN | 0232521433 |
The Genesee Diary: Report from a Trappist Monastery is Henri Nouwen's journal of his seven-month stay in the Abbey of the Genesee in upstate New York. His reflections on daily life with the Trappists are funny, wise, and often profound--resembling Kathleen Norris's The Cloister Walk, but a bit less...
How Rich Countries Got Rich And Why Poor Countries Stay Poor
| Author | Erik S. Reinert |
| ISBN | 1845293266 |
In this refreshingly revisionist history, Erik Reinert shows how rich countries developed through a combination of government intervention, protectionism, and strategic investment, rather than through free trade. Reinert suggests that this set of policies in various combinations has driven...
Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action
| Author | Elinor Ostrom |
| ISBN | 0521405998 |
This book transformed the way I look at the world.
For many societal problems a standard dichotomy is between market-based solutions and government-based solutions. As anyone reading this review knows, much of our politics and public discourse is organized around arguments between these...
Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again
| Author | Rachel Held Evans |
| ISBN | 0718022319 |
One Woman’s Journey Back to Loving the Bible
If the Bible isn’t a science book or an instruction manual, then what is it? What do people mean when they say the Bible is inspired? When Rachel Held Evans found herself asking these questions, she began a quest to better understand what the...
The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society
| Author | Henri J.M. Nouwen |
| ISBN | 0232521026 |
The Wounded Healer is a hope-filled and profoundly simple book that speaks directly to those men and women who want to be of service in their church or community, but have found the traditional ways often threatening and ineffective. In this book, Henri Nouwen combines creative case studies of ministry...
How the Bible Actually Works: In Which I Explain How An Ancient, Ambiguous, and Diverse Book Leads Us to Wisdom Rather Than Answers—and Why That's Great News
| Author | Peter Enns |
| ISBN | 0062686747 |
Controversial evangelical Bible scholar, popular blogger and podcast host of The Bible for Normal People, and author of The Bible Tells Me So and The Sin of Certainty explains that the Bible is not an instruction manual or rule book but a powerful learning tool that nurtures our spiritual growth by...
| Author | Stanley Hauerwas |
| ISBN | 0830834524 |
How are Christians to live in a violent and wounded world? Rather than contending for privilege by wielding power and authority, we can witness prophetically from a position of weakness. The church has much to learn from an often overlooked community--those with disabilities. In this fascinating...
| Author | Martin Wolf |
| ISBN | 0300107773 |
A distinguished international economist here offers a powerful defense of the global market economy. Martin Wolf explains how globalization works, critiques the charges against it, argues that the biggest obstacle to global economic progress has been the failure not of the market but of governments,...
Letter to a Suffering Church: A Bishop Speaks on the Sexual Abuse Crisis
The sexual abuse scandal has gripped the Catholic Church for the past thirty years, and continues to wreak havoc even today.
It's been a diabolical masterpiece, one that has compromised the work of the Church in every way and has left countless lives in ruin.
Many Catholics are understandably...
Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt
| Author | Arthur C. Brooks |
| ISBN | 0062883771 |
Now a National Bestseller.
To get ahead today, you have to be a jerk, right?
Divisive politicians. Screaming heads on television. Angry campus activists. Twitter trolls. Today in America, there is an “outrage industrial complex” that prospers by setting American against...
| Author | Henri J.M. Nouwen |
| ISBN | 1570751331 |
The death of his friend Adam, a severely handicapped young man, spurred Henry Nouwen to write this book. He discovered that by reflecting on the story of this young man, he had found a way to describe his own understanding of the Gospel message. In "Adam", a book completed only weeks before his own death,...
A Fair Country: Telling Truths About Canada
| Author | John Ralston Saul |
| ISBN | 0670068047 |
In this startlingly original vision of Canada, renowned thinker John Ralston Saul argues that Canada is a Métis nation, heavily influenced and shaped by Aboriginal ideas: Egalitarianism, a proper balance between individual and group, and a penchant for negotiation over violence are all Aboriginal...
Becoming Friends of Time: Disability, Timefullness, and Gentle Discipleship
| Author | John Swinton |
| ISBN | 1481304089 |
Time is central to all that humans do. Time structures days, provides goals, shapes dreams--and limits lives. Time appears to be tangible, real, and progressive, but, in the end, time proves illusory. Though mercurial, time can be deadly for those with disabilities. To participate fully in human...
| Author | John Dewey |
| ISBN | 0684838281 |
Experience and Education is the best concise statement on education ever published by John Dewey, the man acknowledged to be the pre-eminent educational theorist of the twentieth century. Written more than two decades after Democracy and Education (Dewey's most comprehensive statement of his...
Everyday Chaos: Technology, Complexity, and How We’re Thriving in a New World of Possibility
Make. More. Future.
Artificial intelligence, big data, modern science, and the internet are all revealing a fundamental truth: The world is vastly more complex and unpredictable than we've allowed ourselves to see.Now that technology is enabling us to take advantage of all the chaos it's revealing,...
Unlikely Utopia: The Surprising Triumph Of Canadian Pluralism
| Author | Michael Adams |
| ISBN | 0670063681 |
Around the world, sectarian tensions divide societies, sometimes erupting into violent confrontation. Some pundits argue that similar convulsions will shake Canada’s multicultural foundations. But Michael Adams argues that Canadians don’t see this as inevitable. Adams believes that...
Sorry, I Don't Speak French: Confronting the Canadian Crisis That Won't Go Away
| Author | Graham Fraser |
| ISBN | 0771047673 |
As the threat of another Quebec referendum on independence looms, this book becomes important for every Canadian — especially as language remains both a barrier and a bridge in our divided country
Canada’s language policy is the only connection between two largely unilingual societies...
