Recommended Books

Phil's choices:
The Irresistible Revolution  Shane Claiborne
God Has a Dream  Desmond Tutu
What Would Jesus Deconstruct?  John Caputo
How (Not) to Speak of God  Peter Rollins
A Generous Orthodoxy  Brian McLaren
The Great Awakening  Jim Wallis
Credo  William Sloane Coffin
The Heart of Christianity  Marcus Borg
Plan B: Some Thoughts on Faith  Anne Lamott
The Triune God  William Placher
Plato & a Platypus Walk Into a Bar  Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein
Why Christian?  Douglas John Hall
Wishful Thinking  Frederick Buechner
The Rapture Exposed  Barbara Rossing
Traveling Mercies  Anne Lamott
A Testament of Hope  Martin Luther King Jr. (ed. by James Washington)
Race Matters  Cornel West
The Cost of Discipleship  Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Unexpected News:  Reading the Bible With Third World Eyes  Robert McAfee Brown
Engaging the Powers  Walter Wink
Reaching Out  Henri Nouwen
Night  Elie Wiesel
Beloved  Toni Morrison

Emily's choices:
Broken Yet Beloved  Sharon G. Thornton
Proverbs of Ashes  Rita Nakashima Brock and Rebecca Parker
The American Soul  Jacob Needleman
Engaging the Powers (and others) Walter Wink
Good Goats  Dennis Linn, Sheila Fabricant Linn, and Matthew Linn
God's Politics  Jim Wallis
Nonviolence for the Third Millenium  G. Simon Harak
The Spiritual Activist  Claudia Horwitz
Savage Inequalities (and others)  Jonathan Kozol
Living Buddha, Living Christ  Thich Nhat Hanh
The Lord of the Rings  J.R.R. Tolkien
Harry Potter  J.K. Rowling
Les Miserables  Victor Hugo
A Tale of Two Cities  Charles Dickens