What I’m Reading

Always being updated

Here is what I am currently reading

(NOTE: yeah, it’s a lot. I have them stashed everywhere: by the bed, in the van, at the office, in my bookbag., etc).

  • Deviate by Beau Lotto (Rereading)

  • Flourish by Martin Seligmann

  • Talking to Strangers, Malcolm Gladwell

  • Mental Models, vol 1, 2, and 3 by Shane Parrish

  • Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

  • The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth by Beth Allison Barr

  • Embodied: Transgender Identities, the Church, and What the Bible Has to Say by Preston Sprinkle

  • Surviving Alzheimer’s by Paula Spencer Scott

  • Microchurches by Brian Sanders

  • How Not to Read the Bible by Dan Kimball

  • Reading Romans Backwards by Scot McKnight

  • Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know by Adam Grant

  • To Think Christianly by Charles E. Cotherman

  • The World: A Brief Introduction by Richard Haass

  • The Bomber Mafia by Malcolm Gladwell

  • Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World by Tara Isabella Burton

  • Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman

  • Be 2.0: (Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0): Turning Your Business into an Enduring Great Company by Jim Collins

  • The Rises and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution by Carl R. Trueman and Rod Dreher

Recently completed

  • Baby Dinosaurs on the Ark? The Bible and Modern Science and the Trouble of Making It All Fit by Janet Kellog Ray

  • A Church Called TOV by Scot McKnight and Laura Barringer

  • King Jesus Gospel by Scot McKnight

  • Real-Life Discipleship by Jim Putnam

  • The Bible and Ancient Science by Denis Lamoureux

  • The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson

  • The Day The Revolution Began, NT Wright

  • The Kingdom Life by Allen Andrews, editor

  • Salvation by Allegiance Alone by Matthew Bates

  • Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World by Lisa Randall

Some of my favorite books

  • Benefit of the Doubt: Breaking the Idol of Certainty, Greg Boyd

  • Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration, Ed Catmull

  • Deep and Wide by Andy Stanley

  • Emotionally Healthy Spirituality, Peter Scazzero

  • Fellowship of the Differents by Scot McNight

  • How We Got to Now, Steve Johnson

  • Improving Your Serve, Charles Swindoll

  • In the Name of Jesus by Henri Nouwen

  • Irresistible, Andy Stanley

  • Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die, Chip & Dan Heath

  • Messy Spirituality: God’s Annoying Love for Imperfect People by Mike Yaconelli

  • Mind: A Journey to the Heart of Being Human, Dan Siegel

  • Mindsets, Carol Dweck

  • Quantum Physics for Poets by Lederman and Hill

  • Renovation of the Heart, Dallas Willard

  • Sacred Overlap: Learning to Live Faithfully in the Space Between by J. R. Briggs

  • Soul Keeping, John Ortberg

  • Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard by Chip & Dan Heath

  • The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business., Patrick Lencioni

  • The Divine Conspiracy, Dallas Willard

  • The Life You’ve Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People, John Ortberg

  • The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg

  • The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People., Stephen Covey

  • Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman

  • Velvet Elvis, Rob Bell

Here is What I am Listening to (Podcasts)