• Book Title: Experience: Spiritual Formation in Theological Field Education
• Book Author: Matthew Floding and Dawn Davis (editors)

“Experience: Spiritual Formation in Theological Field Education” provides effective resources that field educators may employ to foster spiritual formation.

• Book Title: Preaching and Social Issues: Tools and Tactics for Empowering Your Prophetic Voice
• Book Author: Leah D. Schade

“Preaching and Social Issues: Tools and Tactics for Empowering Your Prophetic Voice” equips preachers to craft sermons that help congregations talk about topics of public concern based on strong ethical, biblical, and theological foundations as well as prudent sermonic strategies.

• Book Title: The Formative Power of Your Congregation: Faith and Human Development
• Book Author: Christina Jones Davis and Tim Shapiro

The Formative Power of Your Congregation is written for clergy and laity who long for a congregation that supports human flourishing as much or more than the growth or existence of the church.

• Book Title: No Congregation Is an Island: How Faith Communities Navigate Opportunities and Challenges Together
• Book Author: Jennifer M. McClure Haraway

For ministers and congregational leaders who are feeling stressed, overwhelmed, and perhaps bewildered by all the changes that have taken place in their congregations and communities, this book is a timely and important resource to find support, ideas, and collaborations through relationships with other clergy members and congregations.

• Book Title: Being Church in a Liminal Time: Remembering, Letting Go, Resurrecting
• Book Author: Jeffrey D. Jones and David Fredrickson

This book offers an approach to leadership that is grounded in a spiritual process of inward reflection and outward involvement.

• Book Title: Countercultural: Subversive Resistance and the Neighborhood Congregation
• Book Author: Gil Rendle

Instead of trying to improve what is already known, this book will provide a way for congregations to thrive and fulfill their purpose by being countercultural.

• Book Title: Climate Church, Climate World: How People of Faith Must Work for Change
• Book Author: Jim Antal

Antal proposes how people of faith can embrace new approaches to worship, preaching, witnessing, and other spiritual practices that honor creation and cultivate hope.

• Book Title: Finding Yourself in Chaos: Self-Discovery for Religious Leaders in a Time of Transition
• Book Author: James R. Newby and Mark Minear

Recognizing and embracing the transitional pain of life events like divorce, retirement, the death of a family member, authors James R. Newby and Mark Minear guide readers through a plan of action focused on self-discovery and renewal of spirit.

• Book Title: Celebrating the Graying Church: Mutual Ministry Today, Legacies Tomorrow
• Book Author: Richard P. Olson

Today, many churches and their related agencies and ministries are shrinking. Often a large portion of those who remain are older adults. Celebrating the Graying Church suggests that this is an opportunity for a new and different kind of ministry—a ministry to,…

• Book Title: Third Culture Faithful: Empowered Ministry for Multi-ethnic Believers and Congregations
• Book Author: Mario Melendez

“It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o’clock on Sunday morning.” Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1960. This quote remains true and begs the question “How do we heal the church divide?” Mario…