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Books

Eben Alexander, MD

Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife

Melody Beatty (Melody was at the front end of describing co-dependency)

Co-Dependent No More

  • Rob Bell

    Everything Is Spiritual: Who We Are & What We’re Doing Here

  • Judith Bemis/Amr Barrada (exceptional book that has changed lives)

    • Embracing the Fear: Learning How to Manage Anxiety and Panic Attacks

  • Claudia Black (great writer about being a child of an alcoholic)

    • It Will Never Happen to Me

  • Joan Borysenko, PhD

    • Minding the Mind, Mending the Body

  • John Bradshaw

    • Home Coming: Reclaiming and Championing your Inner Child

  • Brene’ Brown (just read all she’s written)

    • The Gifts of Imperfection: Letting Go of Who You think You’re Supposed to Be

    • Daring Greatly

  • Frederick Buechner

    • Telling Secrets-A Memoir

    • A Room Called Remember

    • The Eyes of the Heart: a memoir of the lost and found

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  • Ruth Coker Burks

    all the young men: A Memoir of Love, AIDS & a Chosen Family in the American South

  • Amy Butler

    Beautiful & Terrible Things: Faith, Doubt & Discovefing a way Back

  • Beatrice Bruteau

    RADICAL OPTIMISM: Practical Spirituality in an Uncertain World

  • Dom Helder Camara

    • A Thousand Reasons for Living

  • Steven Charleston

    Ladder to the Light: An Indigenous Elder’s Meditations on Hope & Courage

  • Pat Conroy as told to Katherine Clark

    My Exaggerated Life

  • Ian Cron

    • Chasing Francis

  • Marliee P Dunker (excellent read on the distortions of faith in the lives of a christian leader)

    • Days of Glory, Seasons of Night

  • Peter Enns

    Curve-Ball: When Your Faith Takes a Turn You Never Saw Coming

  • Victor Frankl

    • Man’s Search for Meaning

  • Phillip Gulley & James Mulholland

    If Grace is True: Why God Will Save Every Person

  • Abraham Joshua Heschel (beautiful book)

    • I Asked For Wonder: A Spiritual Anthology

  • Robert Hicks (one of the best books describing this life as a male)

    • Masculine Journey
      (Out of print but worth the search)

  • Zora Neale Hurston

    Their Eyes Were Watching God

  • John Irving

    A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel

  • Barbara Johnson—the Geranium lady, her first book

    • Where Does a Mother Go to Resign?

  • Alan Jones

    • Exploring Spiritual Direction: An Essay on Christian Friendship

  • James Kavanaugh (beautiful writing)

    • Tears and Laughter of a Man’s Soul

    • Will You Still Love me?

    • And on the sixth day God made man…HONEST?

  • Ernest Kurtz/Katherine Ketcham

    • The Spirituality of Imperfection: Story Telling & The Search for Meaning

  • Lustin Lee

    TORN: Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays vs Christian Debate

  • Mike Lew

    • Victim No Longer: The Classic Guide for Men Recovering from Sexual Child Abuse

  • Brennan Manning

    • Abba’s Child

    • The Ragamuffin Gospel

    • Reflections for a Ragamuffin (Daily)

    • Ruthless Trust

  • Gerald May

    • Addiction and Grace

  • Brian McLaren

    • A Generous Orthodoxy

    • A New Kind of Christian

    • The Last Word…and the Word after That

    • faith after doubt: Why Your Beliefs Stopped Working & What to Do about It

  • John Meacham

    The Hope of Glory: Reflections on the Last Words of Jesus from the Cross

  • Nan Merrill. (phenomenal)

    Psalms for Praying: An Invitation to Wholeness

  • Tyler Merritt

    I Take my Coffee Black

  • Wayne Muller

    • How Then, Shall We Live? Four Simple Questions That Reveal the Beauty and Meaning of Our Lives

    • Legacy of the Heart: The Spiritual Advantages of a Painful Childhood

    • Sabbath: Restoring the Sacred Rhythm of Rest

  • Joseph Nassal

    • Faith Walkers: Passages of Suffering and Hope

  • Mark Nepo (I still always have a Nepo book going)

    • Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What is Sacred

    • The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have

    • The Exquisite Risk: Daring To Live An Authentic Life

    • The Endless Practice: Becoming Who You Were Born to Be

    • The One Life We’re Given: Finding the Wisdom that Waits in Your Heart

  • Kent Nerburn

    • Letters to My Son: A Father’s Wisdom on Manhood, Life & Love

    • Neither Wolf nor Dog

    • The Wolf at Twlight

    • The Girl who Sang to Buffalo

  • Henri Nouwen

    • Can You Drink the Cup?

    • Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World

    • The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey through Anguish to Freedom

    • The Return of the Prodigal Son

    • The Road to Daybreak: A Spiritual Journey

    • The Wounded Healer

  • Parker Palmer

    ON the BRINK of EVERYTHING: Grace, Gravity & Getting Old

  • Eleanor Payson, MSW (best I’ve ever read about Narcissistic Personality Disorder)

    • The Wizard of Oz and other Narcissists

  • Michael Quoist

    • Prayers

  • Richard Rohr (I love this man, a mentor for many years now)

    • Wild Man to Wise Man: Reflections on Male Spirituality

    • Adam’s Return

    • Everything Belongs

    • Falling Upward

    • Eager to Love: The Alternative Way of Francis of Assisi

    • What the Mystics Know: Seven Paths to Your Deeper Self

    • Breathing Underwater

    • Divine Dance

    • Universal Christ

    • The Wisdom Pattern: Order/Disorder/Reorder

  • Lewis Smedes

    • How Can It Be All-Right When Everything Is All-Wrong?

  • Huston Smith

    Tales Of Wonder: Adventures Chasing the Divine

  • Janis Abrahms Spring

    • After the Affair: Healing the Pain & Rebuilding Trust When a Partner has Been Unfaithful

  • Barbara Brown Taylor (read anything she’s written)

    • An Altar in the World

    • Leaving Church

    • Learning to Walk in the Dark

    • Holy Envy

    • The Luminous Web

  • John Ward

    Inside the Evangelical Movement that Failed a Generation: TESTIMONY

  • Macrina Wiederkehr

    • Season’s of Your Heart-Prayers and Reflections

    • A Tree Full of Angels-Seeing the Holy in the Ordinary

    • Seven Sacred Pauses

  • Isabel Wilkerson

    CASTE: The Origins of Our Disconents

  • Christian Wiman (great book)

    • My Bright Abyss

  • Janet Woititz

    • Children of Alcoholics

  • Wm Paul Young

    lies we believe about GOD

  • Philip Yancey

    • What’s So Amazing About Grace?

    • The Jesus I Never Knew

    • Soul Survivor: How My Faith Survived the Church

Reel Therapy via the movies

Music

  • Beth Nielson Chapman – Sand and Water

  • Beth Nielson Chapman – Deeper Still

  • Hammock - Universalis & Silencia

Daily Meditation Books

  • Listening to Your Life
    by Frederick Buechner

  • Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith
    by Henri Nouwen

  • Reflections for Ragamuffins
    by Brennan Manning

  • My Utmost for His Highest
    by Oswald Chambers

  • Living the Message
    by Eugene Peterson (translator of The Message)

  • A Year with C.S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works
    by C. S. Lewis

  • Glimpses of Grace: Daily Thoughts & Reflections
    By Madeleine L’ Engle

  • The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present in the Life You Have
    by Mark Nepo

  • On the Threshold of Transformation: Daily Meditations for Men
    by Richard Rohr

  • Jesus Calling
    by Sarah Young

  • The Spring within Us
    Richard Rohr