Every year since I was in high school I’ve been adding to this long list of to do’s and it’s gotten pretty long. I’m going to keep working on that list… a lot has been checked off and more will eventually be added. But this year I wanted to take a little break from updating and adding to that list. Instead this year I wanted to do something a little differently. This year I’m making a list of books I’d like to read or purchase for my own personal library and a few re-reads that I’ll probably snag from the library. Some are just beautiful books that make my eyes jump for joy when I see the covers and others are ones that help challenge the way I think or give me a break from thinking too hard on those anxiety ridden pancake days. Here’s the start of my list. ❤️📚📕📗📘📙📖
- The Crucifixion of the Warrior God: Interpreting the Old Testament’s Violent Portraits of God in Light of the Cross, Volume 1 & 2
- Cross Vision: How the Crucifixion of Jesus Makes Sense of Old Testament Violence
- Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
- God Without Violence, Second Edition: A Theology of the God Revealed in Jesus
- Fight Like Jesus: How Jesus Waged Peace Throughout Holy Week
- Jesus Untangled: Crucifying Our Politics to Pledge Allegiance to the Lamb
- Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization
- How to Fight Racism: Courageous Christianity and the Journey Toward Racial Justice
- If God Is Love, Don’t Be a Jerk: Finding a Faith That Makes Us Better Humans
- The Naked Gospel: Truth You May Never Hear in Church
- A Farewell to Mars: An Evangelical Pastor’s Journey Toward the Biblical Gospel of Peace
- The Cross and the Lynching Tree
- Half the Church: Recapturing God’s Global Vision for Women
- Her Gates Will Never Be Shut: Hope, Hell, and the New Jerusalem
- Letters and Papers from Prison (Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works)
- The Rhetoric of Certitude: C.S. Lewis’s Nonfiction Prose
- Death by Comb (World Stage Press Classroom Series)
- Jubilant (The Shallic Sea Book 1)
- The Book of Sailing Knots: How To Tie And Correctly Use Over 50 Essential Knots
- Frost Burned (Mercy Thompson Book 7)
- Night Broken (Mercy Thompson Book 8)
- Frankenstein (Penguin Clothbound Classics)
- Edgar Allan Poe: Tales of Mystery & Imagination (Franklin Library of Mystery Masterpieces)
- The life and letters of Emily Dickinson 1924 [Leather Bound]
- Juniper Books Little Women Book Set | Four-Volume Hardcover Book Set with Custom Designed Dust Jackets | Author Louisa May Alcott
- The Mayor of Casterbridge (Chiltern Classic)
- Far From The Madding Crowd (Chiltern Classic)
- Treasure Island (Chiltern Classic)
- The Happy Mom-Brain Guided Workbook
- God in the Dock
- Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
- Fear Farm No Trespassers
- We Survivors: A Story from After the End
- Spirit and Trauma: A Theology of Remaining
- Trauma in the Pews: The Impact on Faith and Spiritual Practices
- Lust Killer
- The Stranger and the World’s Bravest Little Girl (Notorious USA, Oregon Book 1)
- Raising Good Humans: A Mindful Guide to Breaking the Cycle of Reactive Parenting and Raising Kind, Confident Kids
- Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life
- Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
- The Girl They Took: A completely gripping, heart-stopping kidnapping thriller (Tess Winnett)
- Skandar and the Unicorn Thief
- Anakisha’s Dragon: Riders of Fire Dragon Masters, Book One – A Dragons’ Realm young adult epic fantasy adventure
- Moon Pacific Northwest Road Trip: Seattle, Vancouver, Victoria, the Olympic Peninsula, Portland, the Oregon Coast & Mount Rainier (Travel
- The Tree Guardian: A Tale of the Sequoia Forest (Road Trip Tales)
- Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
- An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (REVISIONING HISTORY Book 3)
- The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out