Sustaining Pastoral Excellence

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Books

Practicing Our Faith: A Way of Life for a Searching People
Edited by Dorothy C. Bass
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publisher

Receiving the Day: Christian Practices for Opening the Gift of Time
By Dorothy C. Bass
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publisher

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap—And Others Don’t
By James C. Collins
New York: HarperBusiness

Getting Involved with God: Rediscovering the Old Testament
By Ellen F. Davis
Cambridge, Mass.: Cowley Publications

The Art of Reading Scripture
Edited by Ellen F. Davis and Richard B. Hays
Grand Rapids, Mich.: William. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

Reaching Out Without Dumbing Down: A Theology of Worship for the Turn-of-the-Century Culture
By Marva J. Dawn
Grand Rapids, Mich.: W. B. Eerdmans

Growing in the Life of Faith: Education and Christian Practices
By Craig Dykstra
Louisville, Ky., Geneva Press

The Shape of Living: Spiritual Directions for Modern Everyday Life
By David Ford
Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books

Engaging Scripture: A Model for Theological Interpretation
By Stephen E. Fowl
Maiden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers

Caminemos con Jesús: Toward a Hispanic/Latino Theology of Accompaniment
By Roberto Goizueta
Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books

Boundary Leaders: Leadership Skills for People of Faith
By Gary Gunderson
Minneapolis, Minn.: Augsburg Fortress Publishers

Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive Through the Dangers of Leading
By Ronald A. Heifetz
Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press

Leadership without Easy Answers
By Ronald A. Heifetz
Boston, Mass.: Harvard University Press

Embodying Forgiveness: A Theological Analysis
By L. Gregory Jones
Grand Rapids, Mich.: W. B. Eerdmans

Everyday Matters: Intersections of Life and Faith
By L. Gregory Jones
Nashville, Tenn.: Abingdon Press

Life on the Vine: Cultivating the Fruit of the Spirit in Christian Community
By Philip D. Kenneson
Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press

Power in the Pulpit: How America's Most Effective Black Preachers Prepare Their Sermons
Edited by Cleophus J. LaRue
Louisville, Ky: Westminster John Knox Press,

The Preacher King: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Word that Moved America
By Richard Lischer
New York: Oxford University Press

Open Secrets: A Memoir of Faith and Discovery
By Richard Lischer
New York, Doubleday

Beyond the Worship Wars
By Thomas G. Long
Herndon, Va.: The Alban Institute

Testimony: Talking Ourselves into Being Christian
By Thomas G. Long
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publisher

Jonathan Edwards: A Life
By George M. Marsden
New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press

The Beloved Community: How Faith Shapes Social Justice, From the Civil Rights Movement to Today
By Charles Marsh
New York: Basic Books

Sabbath:  Finding Rest Renewal and Delight in our Busy Lives
By Wayne Muller
New York, Bantam Books

A Hidden Wholeness:  The Journey Toward an Undivided Life.
By Parker Palmer
San Francisco, Jossey-Bass Publisher

Honoring the Body: Meditations on a Christian Practice
By Stephanie Paulsell
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publisher

Working the Angles: The Shape of Pastoral Integrity
By Eugene H. Peterson
Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans

Under the Unpredictable Plant: An Exploration in Vocational Holiness
By Eugene H. Peterson
Grand Rapids, Mich.: W. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition
By Christine Pohl
Grand Rapids, Mich., Eerdmans Publishing Company

Freedom for Ministry
By Richard John Neuhaus
Grand Rapids, Mich.: W. B. Eerdmans 

Breathing Space: A Spiritual Journey in the South Bronx
By Heidi Neumark
Boston: Beacon Press

Reclaiming the Great Commission
By Claude E. Payne and Hamilton Beazley
San Francisco : Jossey Bass Publisher

Song to Sing, A Life to Live: Reflections on Music as Spiritual Practice
By Don Saliers & Emily Saliers
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publisher

The Preaching Life
By Barbara Brown Taylor
Cambridge, Mass.: Cowley Publications

No Future Without Forgiveness
By Desmond Tutu
New York, Doubleday

Educating People Of Faith: Exploring the History of Jewish and Christian Communities
Edited by John Van Engen, Foreword by Dorothy C. Bass.
Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Publishing Company

Practicing Theology: Beliefs and Practices in Christian Life
Edited by Miroslav Volf and Dorothy C. Bass
Grand Rapids, Mich., William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

Lost Icons: Reflections on Cultural Bereavement
By Rowan Williams
Edinburgh: T & T Clark

A Ray of Darkness
By Rowan Williams
Cambridge, Mass., Cowley Publications

Pastor: A Reader for Ordained Ministry
Edited by William H. Willimon
Nashville, Tenn: Abingdon Press

Fiction

The Brothers K
By David James Duncan
New York: Bantam

Three by Flannery O’Connor: Wise Blood, The Violent Bear it Away, Everything that Rises Must Converge
By Flannery O’Connor
New York , N.Y. : New American Library

Gilead
By Marilynne Robinson
New York, N.Y.,Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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