The Bishop's Bookshelf

United Methodists are a reading people. Bishop LaTrelle Easterling has been asked to share some of the books she's currently reading. A list of a few of those books are below, along with some titles from other conference leaders that will broaden your ideas about discipleship and enhance your faith journey.

Reading the Bible with Bonhoeffer: A Study in Discipleship and Courage, by James C. Howell

Captive to The Word of God: Engaging the Scriptures for Contemporary Theological Reflection, by Miroslav Volf

Genesis: A Beginner’s Guide to the Beginning, by Amy-Jill Levine

Reading Howard Thurman: His Practices of Interpretation Through Womanist Eyes, by Shively T.J. Smith

An Aura of Hope: United Methodism’s Next Chapter in the United States, by Lovett H. Weems, Jr.

The Rev. Bill Brown, Director of Innovative Evangelism, offers these titles:

Simple Governance by Stephan W. Ross

How Did We Get Here? Looking Back to Look Forward by Todd Wilson

How Your 21st Century Church Family Works by Peter L. Steinke

Called Out by Kellen Roggenbuck

For Such a Time as This: An Emergency Devotional by Hanna Reichel

Empowering Leaders by Andy Lunt

Remissioning Church by Josh Hayden

Reset: How to Change What’s Not Working by Dan Heath

Centering Discipleship by E.K. Strawser

Calling on Fire by Ashley Boggan and Chris Heckert

Other conference staff offer these titles as classics

The Speed of Trust, by Stephen M. R. Covey

Generation to Generation: Family Process in Church and Synagogue, by Edwin Friedman

Friedman’s Fables, by Edwin Friedman

A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix, by Edwin Friedman

Practicing Change (4 book series) by Tod Bolsinger

Breathing Under Water: Spirituality and the Twelve Steps by Father Richard Rohr OFM