2022:

Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis

Delivering the Sermon: Voice, Body, and Animation in Proclamation by Teresa L Fry Brown

The Four Pages of the Sermon by Paul Scott Wilson

The Good Who Sees: Immigrants, the Bible, and the Journey to Belong by Karen Gonzalez

Whispering the Word: Hearing Women’s Stories in the Old Testament by Jacqueline E. Lapsley

Women’s Lives in Biblical Times by Jennie R. Ebeling

The Art of War by Sun Tzu

The Kingdom Life: A Practical Theology of Discipleship and Spiritual Formation edited by Alan Andrews

Paradise Lost by John Milton

A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca  Solnit

Creative Preaching: Finding the Words by Elizabeth Achtemeier

Preaching in Pictures: Using Images for Sermons that Connect by Peter Jonker

That We May be One: Practicing Unity in a Divided Church by Gary Agee

Patterns of Discipleship in the New Testament by Richard Longenecker, ed.

The Art of Storytelling: Easy Steps to Presenting an Unforgettable Story by John Walsh

Introducing the Sermon: The Art of Compelling Beginnings by Michael Hostetler

How to Preach a Parable: Designs for Narrative Sermons by Eugene Lowry

Finding Language and Imagery by Jennifer Lord.

The Sermon: Dancing the Edge of Mystery by Eugene Lowry

Creative Styles of Preaching by Mark Barger Elliott

Speaking from the Heart: Preaching with Passion by Richard Ward

Engaging the Bible in a Gendered World, edited by Linda Day and Carolyn Pressler.

The “I” of the Sermon by Richard Thulin

The Homiletical Beat by Eugene Lowry

Sexual Violence and Sacred Texts edited by Amy Kalmanofsky

Ruth. Interpretation: A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching by Katharine Doob Sakenfeld.

If God Still Breathes, Why Can’t I? By Angela N. Parker

In My Grandmother’s House: Black Women, Faith, and the Stories We Inherit by Yolanda Pierce

Virtual Theology, Faith and Adult Education: An Interruptive Pedagogy by Ros Stuart-Buttle

God is a Black Woman by Christena Cleveland

The Garden Resonates: A Gospel Emerging Generations Can Believe In by Chris Folmsbee

2021:

Rape Plots: A Feminist Cultural Study of Genesis 34 by Susanne Scholz

Feminist Approaches to the Bible by Phyllis Trible

Feminism and Christianity: An Essential Guide by Lynn Japinga

Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by bell hooks

Sarah: Mothers of Nations by Tammi J. Schneider

The Sermon on the Mount: A Beginners Guide to the Kingdom of Heaven by Amy-Jill Levine

Reading the Bible from the Margins by Miguel A. De La Torre

Women, Gender, and Christian Community edited by Jane Dempsey Douglass & James Kay

Mourner, Mother, Midwife:Reimagining God’s Delivering Presence in the Old Testament by L. Juliana M. Claassens

Radiant Church:Restoring the Credibility of our Witness by Tara Beth Leach

After Whiteness:An Education in Belonging by Willie James Jennings

Women Rising : Learning to Listen, Reclaiming Our Voice by Meghan Tschanz

The Making of Biblical Womanhood by Beth Allison Barr

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All the Odds and Made Aviation History by Keith O’Brien

Dracula by Bram SToker

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

From Widows to Warriors: Women’s Stories from the Old Testament by Lynn Japinga

2020:

Creative Disobedience by Dorothea Solle

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Green Girl by Kate Zambreno

Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson

Passing by Nella Larsen

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Ciphers in the Sand: Interpretations of the Woman Taken in Adultery (John 7.53-8.11) edited by Larry Kreitzer and Deborah Rooke

The Israelite Woman: Social Role and Literary Type in Biblical Narrative by Athalya Brenner-Idan

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The a truth will Set you Free but First it will piss You off by Gloria Steinem

The Very Good Gospel by Lisa Sharon Harper

The Tale of Aqhat trans by Francis Landy

Enuma Elish by Timothy Stephany

Warrior Dancer Seductress Queen: Women in Judges and Biblical Israel by Susan Ackerman

Judges: A Feminist Companion to the Bible Edited by Athalya Brenner

Divine Presence Amid Violence: Contextualizing the Book of Joshua by Walter Brueggemann

Liturgy of the Ordinary by Tish Harrison Warren

The Ethics of Encounter by Marcus Mescher

Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood by Aimee Byrd

The Problem of War in the Old Testament by Peter C Craigie

Hinds Feet on High Places by Hannah Hurnard

Tales of the End by David Barr

We Should all be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Defiant: what the women of Exodus teach us about freedom by Kelley Nikondeha

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God by Kaitlin B. Curtice

The Hidden Story of Jacob: What We Can See in the Hebrew Text that we Cannot See in English by Eli Lizorkin-Eyzenberg

Learn to Read Hebrew in 6 Weeks by Miiko Shaffier

Faith:a Journey for All by Jimmy Carter

I’m still here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Changing Brown

Let Justice Roll Down by John M. Perkins

Outlaw Christian by Jacqueline Bussie

The Broken Way by Ann Voskamp

Mindful Silence by Phileena Heuertz

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

And Then You Were Gone by RJ Jacobs

the Sacred Enneagram by Christopher Heuertz

On Reading Well By Karen Swallow Prior

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

Sincerely, by F. S. Yousaf

The Overdue Life of Amy Byler by Kelly Harms

2019 Books Read:

Theology of the Womb: Knowing God through the Body of a Woman by Christy Angelle Bauman

God and Freedom edited by Colin Gunton

Living into Community by Christine D. Pohl

Love Without Limits by Jacqueline A. Bussie

The Divine Dance by Richard Rohr

Grateful by Diana Butler Bass

The Compassion Connection by Catherine Nerney

Emboldened by Tara Beth Leach

Texts of Terror by Phyllis Trible

Forgive Us by Cannon, Harper, Jackson and Rah

Short Stories by Jesus by Amy-Jill Levine

Faith Seeking Understanding by Daniel L. Migliore

What Paul Really Said about Women by John Temple Bristow

Almost Everything: Notes on Hope by Anne Lamott

Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The INFJ Writer by Lauren Sapala

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Let Your Life Speak by parker Palmer

The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida