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Recommended Books
Leadership
A Failure of Nerve
by Edwin Friedman
A Work of Heart
by Reggie McNeal
How Your Congregation Learns
by Tim Shapiro
Christian Social Innovation
by L. Gregory Jones
Divergent Church
by Tim Shapiro with Kara Faris
How to Lead When You Don't Know Where You're Going
by Susan Beaumont
Rural Ministry
The Forgotten Church
by Glen Daman
The Grasshopper Myth
by Karl Vaters
God’s Country
by Brad Roth
A Big Gospel in Small Places
by Stephen Witmer
Bet the Farm
by Beth Hoffman
Congregational Leadership in Anxious Times
by Peter Steinke
The Practice of Adaptive Leadership
by Ronald Heifetz et al
Canoeing the Mountains
by Tod Bolsinger
Wellness
Flourishing in Ministry
by Matt Bloom
Faithful and Fractured
by Rae Jean Proeschold-Bel and Jason Byassee
Living Into Community:
Cultivating Practices That Sustain Us
by Christine Pohl
The State of Pastors
by Barna Research Group
Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership
by Ruth Haley Barton
The Gravity of Joy
by Angela Gorrell
Preaching, Teaching
& Care
The Gospel Comes with a House Key
by Rosaria Butterfield
Aging: Growing Old in Church
by Will Willimon
The Pastor as Public Theologian
by Kevin J. Vanhoozer and Owen Strachan
Recalling Our Own Stories
by Edward Wimberly
A Lutheran Toolkit
by Ken Sundet Jones
Practicing Care in Rural Congregations and Communities
by Jeanne Hoeft et al
In My Grandmother's House
by Yolanda Pierce
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