Living Into Community: Cultivating Practices That Sustain Us
10 best books like Living Into Community: Cultivating Practices That Sustain Us (Christine D. Pohl): The Wisdom of Stability: Rooting Faith in a Mobile Culture, Being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire, Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life, Living Gently in a Violent World: The Prophetic Witness of Weakness, Christianity After Religion: The End of Church and the Birth of a New Spiritual Awakening, For the Beauty of the Church: Casting a Vision for the Arts, Food and Faith: A Theology of Eating, Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture: An Agrarian Reading of the Bible, The Liturgical Year: The Spiraling Adventure of the Spiritual Life - The Ancient Practices Series, For All the Saints: Remembering the Christians Departed
| Author | Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove |
| ISBN | 1557256233 |
Discussion around the bestseller The Benedict Option by Rod Dreher has led many people to want to know more about Benedictine principles.
In an age where we might email a friend in Africa, Skype a co-worker in Brazil, and teleconference with people in different time zones–all in one...
Being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire
| Author | William T. Cavanaugh |
| ISBN | 0802845614 |
Should Christians be for or against the free market? For or against globalization? How are we to live in a world of scarcity? William Cavanaugh uses Christian resources to incisively address basic economic matters -- the free market, consumer culture, globalization, and scarcity -- arguing that...
| Author | Kathleen Norris |
| ISBN | 1594489963 |
Kathleen Norris’s masterpiece: a personal and moving memoir that resurrects the ancient term acedia, or soul-weariness, and brilliantly explores its relevancy to the modern individual and culture.
Kathleen Norris had written several much loved books, yet she couldn’t drag herself...
| 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 | Diana Butler Bass |
| ISBN | 0062003739 |
Diana Butler Bass, one of contemporary Christianity’s leading trend-spotters, exposes how the failings of the church today are giving rise to a new “spiritual but not religious” movement. Using evidence from the latest national polls and from her own cutting-edge research, Bass, the visionary...
| Author | W. David O. Taylor |
| ISBN | 0801071917 |
Think of your local church. Without art--music, song, dance, etc.--it would be a much poorer place. But if protestants have any vision for the arts, it tends to be a thin one. This unique book is an attempt to contribute to a robust, expansive vision for the church and the arts. Its specific aim is to show...
| Author | Norman Wirzba |
| ISBN | 0521195500 |
This book provides a comprehensive theological framework for assessing eating's significance, employing a Trinitarian theological lens to evaluate food production and consumption practices as they are being worked out in today's industrial food systems. Norman Wirzba combines the tools of...
| Author | Ellen F. Davis |
| ISBN | 0521732239 |
This book examines the theology and ethics of land use, especially the practices of modern industrialized agriculture, in light of critical biblical exegesis. Nine interrelated essays explore the biblical writers' pervasive concern for the care of arable land against the background of the geography,...
| Author | Joan D. Chittister |
| ISBN | 0849901197 |
A journey of the soul through the map of Christian time.
The liturgical year, beginning on the first Sunday of Advent and carrying through the following November is the year that sets out to attune the life of the Christian to the life of Jesus, the Christ.
This book sets out to open what may at first...
For All the Saints: Remembering the Christians Departed
| Author | N.T. Wright |
| ISBN | 0819221333 |
"We have been drifting into a muddle and a mess, putting together bits and pieces of traditions, ideas and practices in the hope that they will make sense. They don't. There may be times when a typical Anglican fudge is a pleasant, chewy sort of thing, but this isn't one of them. It's time to think and speak...
Becoming the Answer to Our Prayers: Prayer for Ordinary Radicals
| Author | Shane Claiborne |
| ISBN | 0830836225 |
"Prayer is not so much about convincing God to do what we want God to do as it is about convincing ourselves to do what God wants us to do." --from the Introduction Activists Shane Claiborne and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove show how prayer and action must go together. Their exposition of key Bible passages...
The Pastor as Minor Poet: Texts and Subtexts in the Ministerial Life
| Author | M. Craig Barnes |
| ISBN | 0802829627 |
"Today's pastors -- often expected to be multi-tasking marvels who can make their churches "successful" -- are understandably confused about their role. Craig Barnes contends that the true calling of a pastor is to help others become fully alive in Christ, to be what he calls a "minor poet," or a poet...
Friendship at the Margins: Discovering Mutuality in Service and Mission
| Author | Christopher L. Heuertz |
| ISBN | 0830834540 |
In our anonymous and dehumanized world, the simple practice of friendship is radically countercultural. But sometimes Christians inadvertently marginalize and objectify the very ones they most want to serve. Chris Heuertz, international director of Word Made Flesh, and theologian and ethicist...
Reconciling All Things: A Christian Vision for Justice, Peace and Healing
| Author | Emmanuel M. Katongole |
| ISBN | 0830834516 |
2009 Christianity Today Book Award winnerOur world is broken and cries out for reconciliation. But mere conflict resolution and peacemaking are not enough. What makes real reconciliation possible? How is it that some people are able to forgive the most horrendous of evils? And what role does God play...
The Cost of Community: Jesus, St. Francis and Life in the Kingdom
| Author | Jamie Arpin-Ricci |
| ISBN | 0830836357 |
Blessed are the poor in spirit . . .So begins the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus' great message to everyone with ears to hear. St. Francis of Assisi heard its message and challenged the church and empire of his day by ordering his life around it--giving up his power, wealth and privileges; claiming the poor...
The New Parish: How Neighborhood Churches Are Transforming Mission, Discipleship and Community
| Author | Paul Sparks |
| ISBN | 0830841156 |
2015 Christianity Today Award of Merit (The Church/Pastoral Leadership)
2014 Readers' Choice Awards Honorable Mention
2014 Best Books About the Church from Byron Borger, Hearts and Minds Bookstore
"When . . . faith communities begin connecting together, in and for the neighborhood,...
| Author | Jean Vanier |
| ISBN | 0232518149 |
This book is a recipe for successful living together. It is a series of starting points for reflection discovered through everyday life, through mistakes and set-backs, through inspiration, through moments of dissension as well as unity. To Vanier, living with others is an adventure whose end is...
Slow Church: Cultivating Community in the Patient Way of Jesus
| Author | C. Christopher Smith |
| ISBN | 0830841148 |
Fast food. Fast cars. Fast and furious. Fast forward. Fast . . . church? The church is often idealized (or demonized) as the last bastion of a bygone era, dragging our feet as we're pulled into new moralities and new spiritualities. We guard our doctrine and our piety with great vigilance. But we often...
Who Stole My Church?: What to Do When the Church You Love Tries to Enter the Twenty-First Century
Has your Church been Hijacked? Millions of people in their fifties, sixties, and seventies feel their churches have been hijacked by church-growth movements characterized by loud praise bands, constant PowerPoint presentations, and cavernous megachurches devoid of any personal touch. They...
| Author | Barbara Brown Taylor |
| ISBN | 1561011673 |
Barbara Brown Taylor remains one of the ultimate sermon writers of our time. She crafts beautiful turns of phrases and looks at Scripture in a way that's novel and intriguing. She's generally captivating to read.
However, Taylor is not my kind of preacher. She's probably not that great of a...
Five Smooth Stones for Pastoral Work
| Author | Eugene H. Peterson |
| ISBN | 0802806600 |
Whereas much of the current literature on pastoring stresses up-to-date training and new techniques stemming from the behavioral sciences, Eugene Peterson here calls for returning to an "old" resource--the Bible--as the basis for all of pastoral ministry.
Originally published in 1980...
Called: The Crisis and Promise of Following Jesus Today
The most urgent call upon Gods people is to live as followers of Jesus.
The most indicting critique against the church is as simple: its failure to do so.
As the leader of an evangelical theological seminary that trains men and women as leaders for the church and society, Mark Labberton...
