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. 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. So here’s the start of that 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
- The Naked Gospel: The 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: Hell, Hope, and the New Jerusalem
- Letters and Papers from Prison
- The Rhetoric of Certitude: C.S. Lewis’s Nonfiction Prose
- Death by Comb
- Jubilant