Thursday, May 22, 2008

Future Reading

I decided to establish a tentative book selection order for the next few months so that we can all know in advance when our turn to pick the book is coming up, I simply based the order on when I heard back from each of you regarding your interest in the group. Here's the order:

June - Aaron

July - Mike

August - Bobby

September - Jeremy

October - Sean

November - Tim

December- Aaron/Other?

As a tentative schedule, it's not set in stone, if someone's schedule doesn't work a particular month we can switch off pretty easily. With the recognition that December is a busy month for most of us with various holiday trips and other business, we may decide to forego reading a book that month, but we can make a decision on that later in the year.

Another item I thought would be interesting to discuss in the blog is what books people may be interested in tackling with this group, or books that you'd suggest others take a stab at even if we don't get to it as a group. This will give us all an idea what we're all interested in, and will also provide us with potential future reading materials. I'll provide my list in a comment as a reply to this original post, I encourage you all to do the same.

3 comments:

Aaron Bonham said...

Recognizing that there's no way we'll every get to all of them as a group, here's a list of 10 books I think would be interesting to read as a group and have the potential to spark good discussion:

1. The Scandalous Gospel of Jesus by Peter Gomes.
2. Religion and Science by Ian Barbour.
3. Red Letter Christians by Tony Campolo.
4. Myth of a Christian Nation by Greg Boyd.
5. The Presence of the Kingdom by Jacques Ellul.
6. Seeing Gray by Adam Hamilton.
7. UnChristian by David Kinnaman.
8. Everything Must Change by Brian McLaren.
9. Politics of Jesus by John Howard Yoder.
10. Amish Grace by Donald Kraybill, Steven Nolt, and David Weaver-Zercher.

Any other thoughts? Book ideas?

Ben said...

Just something to add to the list "The Radical Reformission" by Mark Dirscoll.

Aaron Bonham said...

Good suggestion Ben. Thanks.
Aaron.