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Members & Leaders > 2017 Reading Program

2017 Reading Program List

Education for Mission

  • A History of Religion in 5½ Objects: Bringing the Spiritual to its Senses Recommended Link to purchase online opens in a new window. Print | Kindle
  • America and Its Guns: A Theological Exposé   Bonus Book Link to purchase online opens in a new window. Print | Kindle
  • Boundless: What Global Expressions of Faith Teach Us about Following Jesus  Print - Kindle
  • Faith Ed.: Teaching About Religion in an Age of Intolerance Bonus Book Link to purchase online opens in a new window. Print | Kindle
  • Journey with J.W.: John Wesley’s Ride through Methodist History   Print
  • Liberating Black Church History   Link to purchase online opens in a new window. Print | Kindle
  • Live to Give: Let God Turn Your Talents into Miracles Recommended Link to purchase online opens in a new window. Print | Kindle | Audio Download | Audio CDs
  • Love Casts Out Fear: A Jihad Survivor’s Journey from Revenge to Redemption Recommended
    Link to purchase online opens in a new window. Print | Kindle | Audio Download | Audio CDs
  • Wesley Y El Pueblo Llamado Metodisto   Link to purchase online opens in a new window. Print
  • What We’re Fighting for Now Is Each Other: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Justice   Bonus Book Link to purchase online opens in a new window. Print | Kindle
  • 그날 하나님은 어디 계셨는가? (Where Was God on That Day?) Link to purchase online opens in a new window. Print
  • Wherever The River Runs: How a Forgotten People Renewed my Hope in the Gospel Recommended  Link to purchase online opens in a new window. Print | Kindle | Audio Download | Audio CDs

Leadership Development

  • Called To The Fire: The Story of Dr. Charles Johnson: A Witness for God in Mississippi     Link to purchase online opens in a new window. Print | Kindle | Audio Download | Audio CDs
  • Falling into Place: A Memoir of Overcoming Recommended Print - Kindle
  • Global Girlfriends: How One Mom Made it Her Business to Help Women in Poverty Worldwide Recommended Link to purchase online opens in a new window. Print | Kindle
  • High Yield: Seven Disciplines of the Fruitful Leader  Recommended Link to purchase online opens in a new window. Print | Kindle
  • Just Like I Wanted    Print
  • La Nueva Creacion  Link to purchase online opens in a new window. Print
  • Not Safe for Church: Ten Commandments for Reaching New Generations   Print - Kindle
  • Pig Park   Print - Kindle
  • Rad American Women A-Z: Rebels, Trailblazers and Visionaries Who Shaped Our History ... And Our Future  Print - Kindle Audio Download - Audio CDs
  • Sally Ride: America’s First Woman In Space Link to purchase online opens in a new window. Large Print  | Print | Kindle | Audio Download | Audio CDs
  • The Courage to Be Yourself: True Stories by Teens About Cliques, Conflicts, and Overcoming Peer Pressure Link to purchase online opens in a new window. Print | Kindle

Nurturing for Community

  • #Stolen: Is Social Media Stealing Your Identity?  Print - Kindle
  • Broken & Blessed: God Changes the World One Person and One Family at a Time
     Recommended  Print - Kindle
  • I’ll Be Right There  Recommended Link to purchase online opens in a new window. Print | Kindle | Audio CDs
  • Launch Your Encore: Finding Adventure & Purpose Later in Life
     Print - Kindle
  • Money on Purpose: Finding a Faith-Filled Balance Link to purchase online opens in a new window. Print | Kindle
  • Remember Dippy  Print - Kindle
  • Seamless Faith: Simple Practices for Daily Family Life  Recommended Link to purchase online opens in a new window. Print | Kindle
  • Slowing Time: Seeing the Sacred Outside Your Kitchen Door  Print - Kindle - Audio Download
  • The Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America
    Recommended  Print - Kindle - Audio Download - Audio CDs
  • The Perfect Place  Recommended Link to purchase online opens in a new window. Print | Kindle
  • Voces De Los Fieles Link to purchase online opens in a new window. Print
  • Voices of the Faithful: Inspiring Stories of Courage from Christians Serving Around the World   Recommended  Link to purchase online opens in a new window. Print | Kindle | Audio Download | Audio CDs
  • 청소년을 바라보는 지혜를 입어라 (Have Wisdom to Understand The Teenager)   Link to purchase online opens in a new window. Print

Social Action

  • America and Its Guns: A Theological Exposé Bonus Book Link to purchase online opens in a new window. Print | Kindle
  • Building a Movement to End the New Jim Crow: An Organizing Guide
    Link to purchase online opens in a new window. Print | Kindle
  • Class Lives: Stories from Across Our Economic Divide   Recommended  Link to purchase online opens in a new window. Print | Kindle
  • Faith Ed.: Teaching About Religion in an Age of Intolerance
    Bonus Book Link to purchase online opens in a new window. Print | Kindle
  • 미국의 세기는 끝났는가? (Is the American Century Over?) Link to purchase online opens in a new window. Print
  • Pre-Post-Racial America: Spiritual Stories from the Front Lines
    Recommended Link to purchase online opens in a new window. Print | Kindle
  • Robo De Salarios  
  • Snake-Oil: How Fracking’s False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future
    Recommended Link to purchase online opens in a new window. Print | Kindle
  • Stand Your Ground: Black bodies and the Justice of God  Recommended Link to purchase online opens in a new window. Print | Kindle
  • Understanding and Dismantling Racism: The 21st Century Challenge to White America    Recommended  Link to purchase online opens in a new window. Print | Kindle
  • Wage Theft Comics #1
  • What We’re Fighting for Now Is Each Other: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Justice Bonus Book Recommended Print - Kindle

Spiritual Growth

  • 제자도 (Discipleship) Link to purchase online opens in a new window. Print
  • 기도 (Prayer)   Link to purchase online opens in a new window. Print
  • Extraordinary Grace: How the Unlikely Lineage of Jesus Reveals God’s Amazing Love  Large Print - Kindle
  • Femmevangelical: The Modern Girl’s Guide to the Good News   Link to purchase online opens in a new window. Print | Kindle
  • Fully Awake and Truly Alive: Spiritual Practices to Nurture Your Soul
    Link to purchase online opens in a new window. Print | Kindle
  • If Eve Only Knew: Freeing Yourself from Biblical Womanhood & Becoming All God Means for You to Be  Recommended Link to purchase online opens in a new window. Print | Kindle
  • Just for Today   Print
  • Living into Hope: A Call to Spiritual Action for Such a Time as This
    Link to purchase online opens in a new window. Large Print | Kindle
  • Soul Repair: Recovering from Moral Injury after War  Print - Kindle
  • The Blessings & Bling: How Faith and Fashion Helped Me Survive Breast Cancer
    Recommended Link to purchase online opens in a new window. Print | Kindle
  • The Reason: How I Discovered a Life Worth Living   Print - Kindle - Audio Download | Audio CDs
  • Voces De Los Fieles   Link to purchase online opens in a new window. Print
  • Voices of the Faithful: Inspiring Stories of Courage from Christians Serving Around the World   Recommended Link to purchase online opens in a new window. Print | Kindle | Audio Download | Audio CDs
  • Wild in the Hollow: On Chasing Desire and Finding the Broken Way Home
    Recommended Link to purchase online opens in a new window. Print | Kindle | Audio Download | Audio CDs
  • Worry Less So You Can Live More: Surprising, Simple Ways to Feel More Peace, Joy and Energy  Recommended Link to purchase online opens in a new window. Print | Kindle
  • Reading Program Key

  • Education for Mission Education for Mission
  • Leadership Development Leadership Development
  • Nurturing for Community Nurturing for Community
  • Social Action Social Action
  • Spiritual Growth Spiritual Growth
  • Spanish or Korean Title Spanish or Korean
  • Child or Youth Title Child or Youth
  • Bonus BookBonus Book
  • Recommended

Large Print

  • Sally Ride—America’s First Woman In Space Leadership Development  LARGE - Kindle -
     Audio Download
    - Audio CDs
  • Extraordinary Grace—How the Unlikely Lineage of Jesus Reveals God’s Amazing Love   Spiritual Growth   LARGE - Kindle
  • Living into Hope—A Call to Spiritual Action for Such a Time as This Spiritual Growth
    LARGE - Kindle

Children

  • Journey with J.W.—John Wesley’s Ride through Methodist History spiritual growth  Print
  • Just for Today  Spiritual Growth | Print
  • Just Like I Wanted   Leadership Development  Print
  • Rad American Women A-Z—Rebels, Trailblazers and Visionaries who Shaped Our History ... And Our Future  Leadership Development  Print - Kindle
  • The Courage to Be Yourself—True Stories by Teens About Cliques, Conflicts, and Overcoming Peer Pressure Leadership Development  Print - Kindle

Youth

  • Live to Give—Let God Turn Your Talents into Miracles Education for Mission  Print
    - Kindle - Audio Download - Audio CDs
  • Pig Park  Leadership Development  Print - Kindle
  • #Stolen—Is Social Media Stealing Your Identity?   Nurturing for Community  Print - Kindle
  • Remember Dippy   Nurturing for Community  Print - Kindle
  • The Perfect Place   Print - Kindle
  • The Reason—How I Discovered a Life Worth Living  Spiritual Growth
    Print - Kindle - Audio Download - Aud o CDs

Libros en Español

  • Wesley Y El Pueblo Llamado Metodisto  Education for Mission | Link opens in a new window: order a printed version of this book Print
  • La Nueva Creacion  Leadership Development | Link opens in a new window: order a printed version of this book Print
  • Robo De Salarios  Social Action  
  • Voces De Los Fieles Spanish or Korean Title | Link opens in a new window: order a printed version of this book Print

한국어 책 (Korean)

  • 그날 하나님은 어디 계셨는가 ? (Where Was God on That Day?)   Education for Mission | Link opens in a new window: order a printed version of this book Print
  • 청소년을 바라보는 지혜를 입어라 (Have Wisdom to Understand The Teenager) Nurturing for Community | Link opens in a new window: order a printed version of this book Print
  • 미국의 >세기는 끝났는가 ?  (Is the American Century Over?) Social Action | Link opens in a new window: order a printed version of this book Print
  • 제자도 (Discipleship Prayer) Spiritual Growth | Link opens in a new window: order a printed version of this book Print
  • 기도 (Prayer)      Spiritual Growth | Link opens in a new window: order a printed version of this book Print
  • Do Business As The Bible Says  Leadership Development 
    Link opens in a new window: order a printed version of this book Print

Bonus Books

  • America and Its Guns—A Theological Exposé Education for Mission Social Action  Print | Kindle
  • Faith Ed.—Teaching About Religion in an Age of Intolerance Education for Mission Social Action
      Print | Kindle
  • What We’re Fighting for Now Is Each Other—Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Justice Education for Mission Social Action
     Print - Kindle
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