Dean Lind shared her summer reading list and other Trinity clergy and staff offer up theirs. We’ll update the page as lists are submitted. And we want to hear from members too. Let us know what you’re reading this summer!
The Rev. Canon Will Mebane:
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James Cone
Water, Wind, Earth & Fire The Christian Practice of Praying with the Elements by Christine Valters Painter
This Odd and Wondrous Calling by Lillian Daniel & Martin Copenhaver
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Falling Upward A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life by Richard Rohr
The Rev. Sahra Harding:
You Lost Me: Why Young Christians are Leaving Church and Rethinking Faith by David Kinnaman
Re-Claiming the Bible for a Non-Religious World by John Shelby Spong
Souls in Transition: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults by Christian Smith
Crooked River Burning by Mark Winegardner
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: a Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
Adam Spencer, Trinity’s Adult Education Coordinator:
Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology and Scholarship by Bruce Lincoln
The Implied Spider: Politics and Theology in Myth by Wendy Doniger
Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier by Richard Slotkin
All the Way to Heaven: The Collected Letters of Dorothy Day edited by Robert Ellsberg
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
Mary Smyth, Trinity member:
Love Without End: Jesus Speaks by Glenda Green
God Of Love by Mirabai Starr
Twelve Steps To A Compassionate Life by Karen Armstrong
Melissa Gonzalez, Trinity member & Sunday School teacher:
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Charlotte Pressler, Trinity friend:
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
Crackers in the Glade: Life and Times in the Old Everglades by Rob Storter
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