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 

 

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


Failing Boldly: How Falling Down in Ministry can be the Start of Rising Up, by Christian Coon


Contextual Intelligence, by Leonard Sweet and Michael Beck


Holy Living: Neighboring: Spiritual Practices for Building a Life of Faith, by Jorge Acevedo


Flipping Church: How Successful Church Planters Are Turning Conventional Wisdom Upside-Down, edited by Michael Baughman


No Silver Bullets: Five Small Shifts that will Transform Your Ministry, by Daniel Im


Dying to Restart: Churches Choosing a Strategic Death for a Resurrected Life, by Greg Wiens and Dan Turner


The 21st Century Christian: Following Jesus Where Life Happens, by Michael Moynagh and Michael Beck


Go! How to Become a Great Commission Church, by Mark Teasdale


Ready, Set Plant: The Why and How of Starting New Churches, by Bener Agtarap & Curtis Brown


A Field Guide to Methodist Fresh Expressions, by Michael Adam Beck


Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration, by Ed Catmull


Models of Evangelism Paperback, by Priscilla Pope-Levinson


Launching a New Worship Community: A Practical Guide for the 2020s, by Paul Nixon

 

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