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.


Tempered Resilience: How Leaders Are Formed in the Crucible of Change, by Tod Bolsinger


High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out, by Amanda Ripley


Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery, by Mark Charles and Soong-Chan Rah


All About Love, by bell hooks


Fierce Love, by Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis

 

The Rev. Jack Shitama, Executive Director of Pecometh Camp & Retreat Ministries, offers these titles:


Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know, by Adam Grant


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


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


Leading Me: Eight Practices for a Christian Leader’s Most Important Assignment, by Steve A. Brown 


True to You: A Therapist's Guide to Stop Pleasing Others and Start Being Yourself by Kathleen Smith


Everything Isn't Terrible: Conquer Your Insecurities, Interrupt Your Anxiety, and Finally Calm Down by Kathleen Smith


Growing Yourself Up, 2nd Edition: How to bring your best to all of life’s relationships by Jenny Brown

 

 

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


Sacred Self-Care: Daily Practices for Nurturing Our Whole Selves by by Chanequa Walker-Barnes


Gardens in the Desert by Michael Adam Beck & Kenneth H. Carter Jr.


Lead It Like Lasso by Marnie Stockman & Nick Coniglio


How to Try: Design Thinking and Church Innovation by Lorenzo Lebrija


The Discipleship Opportunity: Leading a Great-Commission Church in a Post-Everything World by Daniel Im


Christianity the Wesleyan Way: Principles and Practices for Life and Ministry by Brian E Germano


Upward by Paul W. Chilcote


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


Doing Justice Together by Michael Beck Beck & Stephanie Moore Hand


BLESS: 5 Everyday Ways to Love Your Neighbor and Change the World by Dave Ferguson & Jon Ferguson

 

The Rev. Stacey Cole Wilson, Executive Minister of Beloved Community, offers these titles:


The Conversation: How Seeking and Speaking the Truth About Racism Can Radically Transform Individuals and Organizations by Dr. Robert Livingston


The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone's Well-Being by Richard Wilkerson


The Lives We Actually Have: 100 Blessings for Imperfect Days by Kate Bowler and Jessica Richie


Crisis and Care: Meditations on Faith and Philanthropy, edited by Dustin D. Benac and Erin Weber-Johnson

 


Inclusive Conversations, by Mary Frances Winters


Being the Church in a Post Pandemic World, by Kay Katan, Foreword by Rodney Smothers


The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together, by Heather McGhee


The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church's Complicity in Racism by Jemar Tisby


Be My Witness, by Marvin McMickle


Gonna Trouble the Water by Miguel A De La Torre