Reading List

1. Augustine’s Confessions
2. Nadia Bolz-Weber’s Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner and Saint
3. Frederick Buechner’s Now And Then: A Memoir of Vocation
4. Rachel Held Evans’ Searching For Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
5. Susan Isaacs’ Angry Conversations With God: A Snarky But Authentic Spiritual Memoir
6. Anne Lamott’s Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
7. Thomas Merton’s Seven Storey Mountain
8. Sara Miles’ Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion
9. Donald Miller’s A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
10. Shauna Niequist’s Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life
11. Kathleen Norris’ The Cloister Walk
12. Henri Nouwen’s The Genesee Diary: Report from a Trappist Monastery 
13. Barbara Brown Taylor’s An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith
14. Phyllis Tickle’s The Shaping of a Life: A Spiritual Landscape
15. Matthew Paul Turner’s Churched: One Kid’s Journey Toward God Despite a Holy Mess
16. Lauren Winner’s Girl Meets God: A Memoir
17. Preston Yancey’s Tables In the Wilderness: A Memoir of God Found, Lost, and Found Again
18. Addie Zierman’s When We Were On Fire: A Memoir of Consuming Fire, Tangled Love, and Starting Over

(Current completion rate: 50%)

On Prayer:

1. Anthony Bloom’s Beginning to Pray
2. Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Psalms: The Prayer Book of the Bible
3. Richard Foster’s Prayer: Finding the Heart’s True Home
4. Bill Hybels’ Too Busy Not to Pray: Slowing Down to Be with God
5. Brother Lawrence’s The Practice of the Presence of God
6. C.S. Lewis’ Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
7. Paul Miller’s A Praying Life: Connecting with God in a Distracting World
8. John Shelby Spong’s Honest Prayer
9. Evelyn Underhill’s Essential Writings
10. Hans Urs Von Balthasar’s Prayer

(Current completion rate: 30%)