The right resources are like having the proper tools in your toolbox. Through the years I’ve turned to the following writings to provide encouragement, guidance, and practical insights. Below, you’ll find the books I’m currently reading plus a list of my favorites arranged according to topic.
Clicking on the titles (or the image) will take you straight to Amazon where you’ll conveniently be able to skim over a sample of the material and view the chapter titles. If any of these books has been especially helpful to you, I’d love to hear from you!
Currently Reading
How (Not) to Be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor
by James K. A. Smith
How (Not) to Be Secular is what Jamie Smith calls “your hitchhiker’s guide to the present” — it is both a reading guide to Charles Taylor’s monumental work A Secular Age and philosophical guidance on how we might learn to live in our times.
Discipleship in the Present Tense: Reflections on Faith and Culture
by James K. A. Smith
“What do we do now?” This is the question every generation of Jesus followers must ask. “How are we to be the people of God in the world today? What does it look like in our culture and our time to follow the crucified and resurrected Messiah?” This is discipleship that follows Christ into the particular, concrete, and embodied realities of our everyday life.
What’s Next?
The Divine Conspiracy Continued: Fulfilling God’s Kingdom on Earth
In The Divine Conspiracy, Dallas Willard critiqued the church’s obsession with “sin management” and revolutionized our understanding of true Christian discipleship. In The Divine Conspiracy Continued, Willard lays out the next stage in God’s plan as this generation of disciples, including ordained and lay leaders, step into positions of authority across our culture and begin to transform the world from the inside out. To fulfill the Christian calling is not to remove oneself from the outside world and take shelter from its shortcomings, Willard reminds us, but to step into the world to lead and serve as agents of change.
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