Here are bibliographies on a variety of topics:
COMMUNITY
Barger, Rick. A New and Right Spirit: Creating an Authentic Church in a Consumer Culture. Herndon, VA: Alban Institute, 2005. Print.
Bass, Dorothy C. Practicing Our Faith: A Way of Life for a Searching People. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1998. Print.
Berghoef, Bryan. Pub Theology: Beer, Conversation, and God, Cascade Books, Eugene, OR: 2012.
Berryman, Jeff. Leaving Ruin: a Novel, New Leaf Books, Orange, CA: 2002.
Bliese, Richard H. and Craig Van Gelder, editors. “The Evangelizing Church: A Lutheran Contribution”. Augsburg Fortress. Minneapolis. 2005
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich. Life Together. Trans. John W. Doberstein. [San Francisco]: HarperSanFrancisco, 1993. Print.
Christopher, J. Clif. Not Your Parents’ Offering Plate: A New Vision for Financial Stewardship. Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 2008. Print.
Claiborne, Shane, and Chris Haw. Jesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2008. Print.
Claiborne, Shane. The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2006. Print.
Clinton, Bill. Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World. New York: Knopf, 2007. Print.
Dawn, Marva J. Keeping the Sabbath Wholly: Ceasing, Resting, Embracing, Feasting. Grand Rapids, MI: W.B. Eerdmans Pub., 1989. Print.
Doughty, Stephen V. Discovering Community: A Meditation on Community in Christ. Nashville, TN: Upper Room, 1999. Print.
ELCA. Talking Together as Christians about Tough Social Issues, Chicago: 1999.
Foster, Richard J. Freedom of Simplicity. New York, NY: HarperPaperbacks, 1998. Print.
Galloway, Kathy. Living by the Rule: The Rule of the Iona Community. Glasgow: Wild Goose Publications, 2010. Print.
Gibbs, Eddie. “ChurchMorph”. Baker Academics. Grand Rapids, MI. 2009.
Haugk, Kenneth C. Antagonists in the Church: How to Identify and Deal with Destructive Conflict, Augsburg, Minneapolis: 1988.
Hunter, George G. III. “The Celtic Way of Evangelism” – How Christianity Can Reach the West…. Again.” Abingdon Press. Nashville. 2000.
Jacobs, A. J. The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007. Print.
Jones, Tony. “The New Christians – Dispatches From the Emergent Frontier.” Jossey-Bass. San Francisco. 2008.
Jones, Tony and Doug Pagitt, editors. “An Emergent Manifesto of Hope.” Baker Books. Grand Rapids. 2007.
Keifert, Patrick R. Welcoming the Stranger : A Public Theology of Worship and Evangelism. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1992. Print
McLaren, Brian D. “More Ready Than You Realize. Zondercan. Grand Rapids, MI. 2002.
Morris, Danny E., and Charles M. Olsen. Discerning God’s Will Together: A Spiritual Practice for the Church. Nashville: Upper Room, 2001. Print.
McKnight, John, and Peter Block. The Abundant Community: Awakening the Power of Families and Neighborhoods. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2010.
Miles, Sarah. Take This Bread. New Yor: Ballantine Books, 2007. Print.
Myers, Ched. The Biblical Vision of Sabbath Economics. Washington DC: Church of the Saviour, 2008. Print.
Nouwen, Henri J. M. Reaching Out: The Three Movements of the Spiritual Life. Garden City, NY: Image, 1986. Print.
Palmer, Parker J. The Active Life: A Spirituality of Work, Creativity, and Caring. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 1999. Print.
Powell, Mark Allan. Giving to God: The Bible’s Good News about Living a Generous Life. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Pub., 2006. Print.
Reuning, Richard & Judith. From Here to Community: Enhancing Christian Community in Today’s Society, Columbus, OH: 2002.
Rollins, Peter. “The Fidelity of Betrayal: Towards A Church Beyond Belief.” Paraclete Press. Brewster, MA. 2008.
Russell, Letty M., J. Shannon Clarkson, and Kate M. Ott. Just Hospitality : God’s Welcome in a World of Difference. 1st ed. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 2009. Print.
The Rutba House, ed. School(s) for Conversion: 12 Marks of a New Monasticism. Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2005. Print.
Salwen, Kevin, and Hannah Salwen. The Power of Half: One Family’s Decision to Stop Taking and Start Giving Back. Boston [Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010. Print.
Schut, Michael. Simpler Living Compassionate Life: A Christian Perspective. Denver, CO: Living the Good News, 1999. Print.
Slee, Nicola, and Rosie Miles. Doing December Differently: An Alternative Christmas Handbook. Glasgow: Wild Goose, 2006. Print.
Tickle, Phyllis. “The Great Emergence.” Baker Academics. Grand Rapids, MI. 2008
Van Gelder, Craig, and Dwight J. Zscheile. The Missional Church in Perspective: Mapping Trends and Shaping the Conversation. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic, 2011. Print.
Volf, Miraslav. “After Our Likeness: The Church as the Image of the Trinity.” Sacra Doctrina. William B. Eerdmans. Grand Rapids, MI. 1998.
GIVING AND STEWARDSHIP
- The Power of Half: One Family’s Decision to Stop Taking and Start Giving, Kevin & Hannah Salwen, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston: 2010.
- Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World, Bill Clinton, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2007.
- Freedom of Simplicity: Finding Harmony in a Complex World, Richard J. Foster, Harper, New York: 1981.
- Everything the Bible Says About Money: What Does God Say About Investing? How Can I Spend My Money Wisely? Is Money Really the Root of All Evil? How Should I Help the Poor? Lin Johnson, ed. Bethany House, Bloomington, MN: 2011.
MINDFULNESS
Miyamoto Mushashi – The Book of Five Rings
Sun Tzu – The Art of War
Lao Tzu – Tao Te Ching
Ralph D. Sawyer – Unorthodox Strategies for the Everyday Warrior: Ancient Wisdom for the Modern Warrior
Alfred Huang, trans. – The Complete I Ching
Alan Watts – The Way of Zen
Joe Hyams – Zen in the Martial Arts
Greg Mortensen & David Oliver Relin – Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace… One School at a Time
Michael J. Fox – Always Looking Up: Adventures of an Incurable Optimist
Kensho Furuya – Kodo: Ancient Ways (Lessons in the Spiritual Life of the Warrior / Martial Artist
Marva J. Dawn – Keeping the Sabbath Wholly: Ceasing, Resting, Embracing, Feasting
Chungliang Al Huang – Embrace Tiger and Return to Mountain (The Essence of Taiji)
Ernest Becker – The Denial of Death
Stuart Heller – The Dance of Becoming (Living Life as a Martial Artist)
Stephanie Kallos – Broken for You
William Paul Young – The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity
Forrest E. Morgan – Living the Martial Way (A Manual for the way a modern warrior should think)
Alan Light – The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley & The Unlikely Ascent of “Hallelujah”
Peter Lewis – Myths and Legends of the Marital Arts
Thomas M. White – Three Golden Pearls on a String (The Esoteric Teachings of Karate-Do and the Mystical Journey of a Warrior Priest)
Balthasar Gracia’n – The Art of Worldly Wisdom
William Reed – Ki (A Road That Anyone Can Walk)
Koichi Tohei – Ki in Daily Life
Stephen Mitchell, ed. – The Enlightened Mind (An Anthology of Sacred Prose)
Brian Walker – Hua Hu Ching (The Unknown Teachings of Lao Tzu)
Marcus Aurelius – Meditations
Gerald Tomlinson – Treasury of Religious Quotations (A timeless collection of more than 2,000 quotations, anecdotes, and stories drawing upon the vast world of religious thought from ancient times to present day.)
Dante – The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradisio
Naomi Ozaniec – Teach Yourself Meditation
Scott Shaw – The Warrior IS Silent: Martial Arts and the Spiritual Path
KOBUDO
Christopher M. Clarke – Okinawan Kobudo: A History of Weaponry Styles and Masters
Christopher M. Clarke – Modern-Day Samurai: Kotaka Sukesaburo Minamoto-no Sadayasu Sadao – An Appreciation and History of his Kenjutsu Style
Fumio Demura – Nunchaku: Karate Weapon of Self-Defense
Fumio Demura – Sai: Karate Weapon of Self-Defense
Fumio Demura – Tonfa: Karate Weapon of Self-Defense
Motokatsu Inoue – Bo, Sai, Tonfa and Nunchaku: Ancient Martial Arts of the Ryukyu Islands
Michael Finn – Kendo No Kata (Forms of Japanese Kendo)
Masayuki Shimabukuro & Leonard J. Pellman – Flashing Steel: Mastering Eishin-Ryu Swordamanship
Junzo Sasamori & Gordon Warner – This Is Kendo: The Art of Japanese Fencing
Donn F. Draeger – The Weapons and Fighting Arts of Indonesia
PRAYER BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bondi, Roberta C. To Pray and to Love: Conversations on Prayer with the Early Church, Augsburg Fortress, 1991.
Bread for the Day 2019: Daily Bible Readings and Prayers, Augsburg Fortress.
Brokering, Herbert. Luther’s Prayers, Augsburg Fortress, 2004.
French, Henry F. Prayer: A Primer Augsburg Fortress, 2009.
Huffman, Walter C. Prayer of the Faithful: Understanding and Creatively Leading Corporate Intercessory Prayer – Revised Edition, Augsburg Fortress, 1992.
Marty, Martin Lutheran Questions, Lutheran Answers: Exploring Christian Faith Augsburg Fortress, 2007.
Ramshaw, Gail. Praying for the Whole World: A Handbook for Intercessors Augsburg Fortress, 2016.
Wengert, Timothy J. Martin Luther’s Catechism: Forming the Faith, Augsburg Fortress, 2009.
LORD’S PRAYER BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Disciples’ Prayer: The Prayer Jesus Taught in Its Historical Setting (Jeffrey B. Gibson, Augsburg Fortress, 2015)
The Greatest Prayer: Rediscovering the Revolutionary Message of The Lord’s Prayer (John Dominic Crossan, Harper Collins, 2010)
Lord, Teach Us: The Lord’s Prayer & the Christian Life (William H. Willimon & Stanley Hauerwas, Abingdon, 1996)
The Lord’s Prayer: It’s Character, Purpose, and Interpretation (E.F. Scott, Charles Schribner’s Sons, 1951)
No Empty Phrases: The Lord’s Prayer And You (Frank H. Seilhamer, CSS Publishing, 1985)
A Place To Pray: Reflections on the Lord’s Prayer (Roberta C. Bondi, Abingdon, 1998)
Praying Like Jesus: The Lord’s Prayer in a Culture of Prosperity (James Mulholland, Harper Collins, 2001)
Thy Will Be Done In Me: Living The Lord’s Prayer (David H. Westphal, Xlibris Corp, 2012)
ICON BIBLIOGRAPHY
Babic, Gordan. Icons, trans. by Angus McGeoch, I.P. Verlagsgesellshaft International Publishing, Germening/Munich, 1998.
Nouwen, Henri J.M. Behold the Beauty of the Lord – Praying with Icons, Ave Maria Press, Notre Dame, IN, 1987.
Ramos-Poqi, Guillem. The Technique of Icon Painting, Morehouse Publishing, Harrisburg PA, 1990.
Sendler, Egon, S.S. The Icon – Image of the Invisible: Elements of Theology – Aesthetics and Technique, trans. Fr. Steven Bigham, Oakwood Publications, 1988.
Timchenko, Swergei. Russian Icons Today, 1994.
Zibawi, Mahmoud. The Icon – Its Meaning and History, The Liturgical Press, Collegeville MN, 1993.
