Top 50 Books for Consideration

Here are my Top 50 books that we might read on this blog (alpha order). They're taken from the Big List.

1. A Quaker Book of Wisdom: Life Lessons In Simplicity, Service, And Common Sense (Smith)
2. Adventures in Missing the Point: How the Culture-Controlled Church Neutered the Gospel (McLaren & Campolo)
3. Alternatives to Economics: Christian Socio-economic Perspectives (Cara)
4. And You Call Yourself a Christian (Lupton)
5. Beyond Charity: The Call to Christian Community Development (Perkins)
6. Changing the Face of Hunger: The Story of How Liberals, Conservatives, Republicans, Democrats, and People of Faith are Joining Forces in a New Movement to Help the Hungry, the Poor, and the Oppressed (Hall)
7. Christian Peacemaking & International Conflict: A Realist Pacifist Perspective (Friesen)
8. Christian Peacemaking: From Heritage to Hope (Buttry)
9. Colossians Remixed: Subverting the Empire (Walsh & Keesmaat)
10. Compassion, Justice and the Christian Life: Rethinking Ministry to the Poor (Lupton)
11. Covenant of Peace: The Missing Peace in New Testament Theology and Ethics (Swartley)
12. Dangerous Faith: Growing in God and Service to the World (Vestal)
13. Disruptive Religion (Smith)
14. Economics in Christian Perspective: Theory, Policy and Life Choices (Claar & Klay)
15. Economy of Grace (Tanner)
16. Faith Works (Wallis)
17. Following Christ in a Consumer Society: The Spirituality of Cultural Resistance (Kavanaugh)
18. For the Beauty of the Earth (Bouma-Prediger)
19. For They Shall Be Fed: Scripture Readings and Prayers for a Just World (Sider)
20. Getting Your Feet Dirty: A Down-to-earth Look at Following Jesus (Everts)
21. Good News about Injustice (Haugen)
22. Jesus for President (Claiborne & Haw)
23. Jesus in the Margins: Finding God in the Places We Ignore (Mckinley)
24. Jesus Weeps: Global Encounters on Our Doorstep (Recinos & Evans)
25. Jesus, Justice, and the Reign of God: A Ministry of Liberation (Herzog)
26. Jewish Dimensions of Social Justice: Tough Moral Choices of Our Time (Vorspan & Saperstein)
27. Justice and Judaism: The Work of Social Action (Vorspan)
28. Justice and Peace: A Christian Primer (Thompson)
29. Less Than Two Dollars a Day: A Christian View of World Poverty and the Free Market (Van Til)
30. Let Justice Roll Down (Perkins)
31. My Name Is Child of God...Not "Those People": A First Person Look at Poverty (Dinsmore)
32. Peace on Earth: Roots and Practices from Luke's Gospel (Grassi)
33. Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger (Sider)
34. Same Kind of Different as Me (Hall, Moore & Vincent)
    
35. Seeking Peace (Arnold)
36. Serve God, Save the Planet (Sleeth)
37. Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays (Berry)
38. Shalom: The Bible's Word for Salvation, Justice, and Peace (Yoder)
39. Social Justice: A Jewish Perspective (Kliksberg & Friedlander)
40. Social Justice and the Christian Church (Nash)
41. Submerge: Living Deep in a Shallow World: Service, Justice and Contemplation Among the World's Poor (Hayes)
42. The Drama of Scripture (Bartholomew & Goheen)
43. The God of Intimacy and Action: Reconnecting Ancient Spiritual Practices, Evangelism, and Justice (Campolo & Darling)
44. The Myth of a Christian Nation: How the Quest for Political Power Is Destroying the Church (Boyd)
45. The New Friars: The Emerging Movement Serving the World's Poor (Bessenecker)
46. The Peacemaking Remnant (Morgan)
47. The Politics of Jesus (Yoder)
48. The Relevant Nation: 50 Activist, Artists And Innovators Who Are Changing Their World through Faith (Zydek)
49. What Can One Person Do? Faith to Heal a Broken World (Alkire)
50. Who Comes in the Name of the Lord?: Jesus at the Margins (Recinos)

Books & Magazines

Magazines

• Adbusters
• Geez
• Need
• Permaculture
  
• Relevant
• Sojourners
• Third Way
• Utne Reader
• Yes!

Books

• A Biblical Economics Manifesto: Economics and the Christian Worldview (Gills & Nash)
• A Framework for Understanding Poverty (Payne)
• A Generous Orthodoxy: Why I Am a Missional, Evangelical, Post/Protestant, Liberal/Conservative, Mystical/Poetic, Biblical, Charismatic/Contemplative, Fundamentalist/Calvinist, Anabaptist/Anglican, Methodist, Catholic, Green, Incarnational, Depressed-yet-Hopeful, Emergent, Unfinished CHRISTIAN (McLaren)
• A Greener Faith: Religious Environmentalism and Our Planet's Future (Gottlieb)
• A Heart for the City: Effective Ministries to the Urban Community (Fuder)
• A Hunger for Healing (Miller)
• And You Call Yourself a Christian (Lupton)
• A Quaker Book of Wisdom: Life Lessons In Simplicity, Service, And Common Sense (Smith)
• Adventures in Missing the Point: How the Culture-Controlled Church Neutered the Gospel (McLaren & Campolo)
• All of One Peace: Essays on Nonviolence (McCarthy)
• Alternatives to Economics: Christian Socio-economic Perspectives (Cara)
• An Unstoppable Force (McManus)
• And You Call Yourself a Christian (Lupton)
• Approaches to Peace: A Reader in Peace Studies (Barash)
• Architects of Peace: Visions of Hope in Words and Images (Collopy & Cronkite)
• Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty (Yunus)
• Be the Change: Your Guide to Freeing Slaves and Changing the World (Zach Hunter)
• Beyond Charity: The Call to Christian Community Development (Perkins)
• Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development (Daly)
• Blue Like Jazz (Miller)
• Buck-Naked Faith: A Brutally Honest Look at Stunted Christianity (Sandras)
• Changing the Face of Hunger: The Story of How Liberals, Conservatives, Republicans, Democrats, and People of Faith are Joining Forces in a New Movement to Help the Hungry, the Poor, and the Oppressed (Hall)
• Christian Peacemaking & International Conflict: A Realist Pacifist Perspective (Friesen)
• Christian Peacemaking: From Heritage to Hope (Buttry)
• Christianity and Ecology: Seeking the Well-Being of Earth and Humans (Hessel & Ruether)
• Churches that Make a Difference (Sider, Olson & Unruh)
• City Reaching: On The Road To Community Transformation (Dennison)
• Colossians Remixed: Subverting the Empire (Walsh & Keesmaat)
• Come to the Quiet (Hohnberger)
• Compassion, Justice and the Christian Life: Rethinking Ministry to the Poor (Lupton)
• Consuming Faith (Beaudoin)
• Consuming Religion: Christian Faith And Practice in a Consumer Culture (Miller)
• Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa (Krog)
• Covenant of Peace: The Missing Peace in New Testament Theology and Ethics (Swartley)
• Cradle to Cradle (McDonough & Braungart)
• Culture Jam: How to Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge--And Why We Must (Lasn)
• Cultures of Peace: The Hidden Side of History (Syracuse Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution) (Boulding)
• Dangerous Faith: Growing in God and Service to the World (Vestal)
• Design Anarchy (Lasn)
• Discovering Your City : Bringing Light to the Task of Community Transformation (Waymire & Townsend)
• Disruptive Religion (Smith)
• Doing Evangelism Jesus' Way (Sider)
• Dynamics of Nonviolent Action (Politics of Nonviolent Action, Part 3) (Sharp)
• Earth Community, Earth Ethics (Ecology & Justice) (Rasmussen)
• Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace (Shiva)
• Earth-Wise: A Biblical Response to Environmental Issues (Dewitt)
• Eat This Book: A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading (Peterson)
• Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth (Brown)
• Ecological Economics: Principles And Applications (Farley & Daly)
• Ecology & the Jewish Spirit: Where Nature and the Sacred Meet (Bernstein)
• Economic Compulsion and Christian Ethics (Barrera)
• Economics in Christian Perspective: Theory, Policy and Life Choices (Claar & Klay)
• Economy of Grace (Tanner)
• Ending Poverty: A 20/20 Vision Guide for Individuals And Congregations (Maeker & Rogness)
• Evening Thoughts (Berry)
• Everybody Wants to Change the World (Campolo)
• Everything Must Change: Jesus, Global Crises, and a Revolution of Hope (McLaren)
• Evil And the Justice of God (Wright)
• Exiles: Living Missionally in a Post-Christian Culture (Frost)
• Faith Works (Wallis)
• Fields of the Fatherless (Davis)
• Following Christ in a Consumer Society: The Spirituality of Cultural Resistance (Kavanaugh)
• For the Beauty of the Earth (Bouma-Prediger)
• For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future (Daly & Cobb)
• For They Shall Be Fed: Scripture Readings and Prayers for a Just World (Sider)
• Gandhi and Beyond: Nonviolence for an Age of Terrorism (Cortright)
• Getting Your Feet Dirty: A Down-to-earth Look at Following Jesus (Everts)
• Give Us This Day A Lutheran Proposal For Ending World Hunger (Lutheran Voices) (Beckmann & Nessan)
• God & Money: The Moral Challenge of Capitalism (McDaniel)
• God And the Evil of Scarcity: Moral Foundations of Economic Agency (Barrera)
• God in the Flesh: What Speechless Lawyers, Kneeling Soldiers And Shocked Crowds Teach Us About Jesus (Everts)
• God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It (Wallis)
• Good News about Injustice (Haugen)
• Good News and Good Works (Sider)
• How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas (Bornstein)
• I'd Rather Teach Peace (McCarthy)
• I am Not a Social Activist (Sider)
• Inspiring Progress: Religions' Contributions to Sustainable Development (Gardner)
• I Pledge Allegiance (Phillips & Tsatalbasidis)
• Iraq Journal 2003 (Claiborne)
• Is that Really You, God? (Cunningham)
• Is There No Other Way?: The Search for a Nonviolent Future (Nagler)
• It’s about People (Hohnberger)
• It's Easy Being Green (Sleeth)
• Jesus and Nonviolence (Wink)
• Jesus for President (Claiborne & Haw)
• Jesus in the Margins: Finding God in the Places We Ignore (Mckinley)
• Jesus the Jewish Theologian (Young)
• Jesus Wants to Save Christians (Bell & Golden)
• Jesus Weeps: Global Encounters on Our Doorstep (Recinos & Evans)
• Jesus With Dirty Feet: A Down-To-Earth Look at Christianity for the Curious & Skeptical (Everts)
• Jesus, Justice, and the Reign of God: A Ministry of Liberation (Herzog)
• Jewish Dimensions of Social Justice: Tough Moral Choices of Our Time (Vorspan & Saperstein)
• Journey to the Center of the City: Making a Difference in an Urban Neighborhood (White)
• Judaism and Ecology: Created World and Revealed Word (Blanchard)
• Judaism and Environmental Ethics: A Reader (Yaffe)
• Just Generosity: A New Vision for Overcoming Poverty in America (Sider)
• Just Peacemaking: Ten Practices for Abolishing War (Stassen)
• Justice and Judaism: The Work of Social Action (Vorspan)
• Justice and Peace: A Christian Primer (Thompson)
• Justice in a Global Economy: Strategies for Home, Community, and World (Brubaker)
• Leaving Microsoft to Change the World (Wood)
• Less Than Two Dollars a Day: A Christian View of World Poverty and the Free Market (Van Til)
• Let Justice Roll Down (Perkins)
• Linking Arms, Linking Lives (Sider)
• Living God’s Politics (Wallis)
• Living like Jesus: Eleven Essentials for Growing a Genuine Faith (Sider)
• Living The Faith Community: The Church That Makes A Difference (Westerhoff)
• Living the Heart of Christianity: A Guide to Putting Your Faith into Action (Borg & Scorer)
• Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela (Mandela)
• Loving Nature (Nash)
• Material Christianity: Religion and Popular Culture in America (McDannell)
• Meet the Rabbis: Rabbinic Thought and the Teachings of Jesus (Young)
• Meeting needs, sharing Christ: Ministry evangelism in today's New Testament Church (Atkinson)
• Mere Christianity (C.S. Lewis)
• Methods of Nonviolent Action (Politics of Nonviolent Action, Part 2) (Sharp)
• Ministering Cross-Culturally (Lingenfelter & Mayers)
• Ministries of Compassion (Sahlin, Gavin, Washington, Wi)
• Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light (Teresa & Kolodiejchuk)
• My 30 Days Under the Overpass: Not Your Ordinary Devotional (Yankoski)
• My Name Is Child of God...Not "Those People": A First Person Look at Poverty (Dinsmore)
• Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution (Hawken)
• No Future Without Forgiveness (Tutu)
• No Logo: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs (Klein)
• Nonviolence: 25 Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea (Kurlansky & Dalai Lama)
• Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life (Rosenberg & Gandhi)
• Nonviolent Social Movements: A Geographical Perspective (Zunes)
• Off-Road Disciplines: Spiritual Adventures of Missional Leaders (Creps & Kimball)
• On Living Simply: The Golden Voice of John Chrysostom (Chrysostom & Van De Weyer)
• Organic Church: Growing Faith Where Life Happens (Cole)
• Parables As Subversive Speech: Jesus As Pedagogue of the Oppressed (Herzog)
• Passion for Peace, New and Revised: The Struggle for Non-Violence (Merton)
• Peace: A History of Movements and Ideas (Cortright)
• Peace and Conflict Studies (Barash & Webel)
• Peace in Our Lifetime: Insights from the World's Peacemakers (Skog & Hanh)
• Peace Is the Way: Writings on Nonviolence from the Fellowship of Reconciliation (Fellowship of Reconciliation & Wink)
• Peace on Earth: Roots and Practices from Luke's Gospel (Grassi)
• Peak Oil Survival: Preparation for Life After Gridcrash (McBay)
• People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.) (Zinn)
• Plan B: Rescuing a Planet under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble (Brown)
• Plastic Jesus: Exposing the Hollowness of Comfortable Christianity (Sandras)
• Power and Struggle (Politics of Nonviolent Action, Part 1) (Sharp)
• Power in Movement: Social Movements and Contentious Politics (Tarrow)
• Practical Justice (Blue)
• Principles of Social Justice (David Miller)
• Proclaiming Peace: Christian Pacifism from Unexpected Quarters (Schlabach & Hughes)
• Radical Christian Writings: A Reader (Bradstock & Rowland)
• Radical Simplicity: Small Footprints on a Finite Earth (Merkel)
• Read the Bible for a Change: A Follower's Guide to Reading and Responding to the Bible (Lubeck)
• Red Letter Christians (Campolo)
• Red Letters: Living a Faith that Bleeds (Davis)
• Redeeming Creation: The Biblical Basis for Environmental Stewardship (Van Dyke)
• Refuse to Stand Silently By (Wigginton)
• Renewing The City: Reflections On Community Development And Urban Renewal (Lupton)
• Restoring the Jewishness of the Gospel: A Message for Christians (Stern)
• Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger (Sider)
• Roots for Radicals: Organizing for Power, Action, and Justice (Chambers & Cowan)
• Sacramental Commons: Christian Ecological Ethics (Hart)
• Saving God's Green Earth: Rediscovering the Church's Responsibility to Environmental Stewardship (Robinson & Chatraw)
• School(s) for Conversion (Rutba House)
• Searching for a God to Love (Blake)
• Searching for God Knows What (Miller)
• Seeking Peace (Arnold)
• Selling God: American Religion in the Marketplace of Culture (Moore)
• Serve God, Save the Planet (Sleeth)
• Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays (Berry)
• Shalom: The Bible's Word for Salvation, Justice, and Peace (Yoder)
• Sharing Food: Christian Practices for Enjoyment (Jung)
• Social Justice: A Jewish Perspective (Kliksberg & Friedlander)
• Social Justice and the Christian Church (Nash)
• Social Movements, 1768-2004 (Tilly)
• Social Movements for Global Democracy (Smith)
• Soul Survivor (Yancey)
• Speak Truth to Power: Human Rights Defenders Who are Changing Our World (Kennedy Adams)
• Starving Jesus: Off the Pew, into the World (Gross & Mahon)
• Steps to Christ (White)
• Strategic Nonviolent Conflict: The Dynamics of People Power in the Twentieth Century (Ackerman & Kruegler)
• Submerge: Living Deep in a Shallow World: Service, Justice and Contemplation Among the World's Poor (Hayes)
• Swimming Against the Current (Blake)
• The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict (The Arbinger Institute)
• The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. (King)
• The Better World Handbook : From Good Intentions to Everyday Actions (Jones)
• The Call to Conversion (Wallis)
• The Care of Creation: Focusing Concern and Action (Berry)
• The Case for Christ (Strobel)
• The Church of Irresistible Influence (Lewis & Wilkins)
• The Church That Never Sleeps: The Amazing Story That Will Change Your View of Church Forever (Barnett)
• The Desire of Ages (White)
• The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God (Dallas Willard)
• The Drama of Scripture (Bartholomew & Goheen)
• The Eleventh Commandment (Nelson)
• The End of Poverty (Sachs)
• The End of Religion: Encountering the Subversive Spirituality of Jesus (Cavey)
• The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas (Gandhi)
• The Externally Focused Church (Rusaw & Swanson)
• The Fear of Beggars: Stewardship and Poverty in Christian Ethics (Johnson)
• The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating the Missional Church (Hirsch & Sweet)
• The God of Intimacy and Action: Reconnecting Ancient Spiritual Practices, Evangelism, and Justice (Campolo & Darling)
• The Gospel according to Moses: What My Jewish Friends Taught Me about Jesus (Dickson)
• The Great Giveaway: Reclaiming the Mission of the Church from Big Business, Parachurch Organizations, Psychotherapy, Consumer Capitalism, and Other Modern Maladies (Fitch)
• The Hebrew Yeshua vs. the Greek Jesus (Gordon)
• The History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era (Ishay)
• The Hope Factor: Engaging the Church in the HIV/AIDS Crisis (Yamamori)
• The Intimate Merton: His Life from His Journals (Merton)
• The Irresistible Revolution (Claiborne)
• The Jesus of Suburbia: Have We Tamed the Son of God to Fit Our Lifestyle? (Erre)
• The Justice God Is Seeking (The Worship Series) (Ruis)
• The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People (Ortberg)
• The Lifelong Activist: How to Change the World Without Losing Your Way (Rettig)
• The Love of Enemy and Nonretaliation in the New Testament (Swartley)
• The Market Economy and Christian Ethics (New Studies in Christian Ethics) (Sedgwick)
• The Moral Ecology of Markets: Assessing Claims about Markets and Justice (Finn)
• The Myth of a Christian Nation: How the Quest for Political Power Is Destroying the Church (Boyd)
• The New Friars: The Emerging Movement Serving the World's Poor (Bessenecker)
• The Parables: Jewish Tradition and Christian Interpretation (Young)
• The Peacemaking Remnant (Morgan)
• The Politics of Jesus (Yoder)
• The Poverty and Justice Bible
• The Power of Nonviolence: Writings by Advocates of Peace (Zinn)
• The Pursuit of Holiness (Bridges)
• The Radical Reader: A Documentary History of the American Radical Tradition (McCarthy & McMillian)
• The Relevant Nation: 50 Activist, Artists And Innovators Who Are Changing Their World through Faith (Zydek)
• The Revolution (Zydek)
• The Son of God Is Dancing: A Message of Hope (Plass)
• The Soul of Politics: Beyond "Religious Right" and "Secular Left" (Wallis)
• The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People (Schell)
• The Upside-Down Kingdom (Kraybill)
• The World's Most Powerful Leadership Principle: How to Become a Servant Leader (Hunter)
• The Wretched of the Earth (Fanon)
• Theirs Is the Kingdom: Celebrating the Gospel in Urban America (Lupton)
• This Beautiful Mess (McKinley)
• Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time (Mortenson & Relin)
• To Baghdad and Beyond: How I Got Born Again in Babylon (Wilson-Hartgrove)
• Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most (Stafford)
• Torah of the Earth: Exploring 4,000 Years of Ecology in Jewish Thought (Waskow)
• Toward an Evangelical Public Policy (Sider)
• Traveling Mercies (Lamott)
• Trees, Earth and Torah (Elon)
• Troublesome People: The Warriors of Pacifism (Conscientious Objectors) (Moorehead)
• Under the Overpass: A Journey of Faith on the Streets of America (Yankoski)
• Understanding Conflict Resolution: War, Peace and the Global System (Wallensteen)
• Understanding Your Community (Sahlin)
• Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights (Hartmann)
• Urban Churches: Vital Signs: Beyond Charity Toward Justice (Harper)
• Urban Ministry in a New Millenium (Claerbaut)
• Velvet Elvis (Bell)
• Violence and Its Alternatives: An Interdisciplinary Reader (Steger & Lind)
• Violence: Reflections on a National Epidemic (Gilligan)
• Voices of A People's History of the United States (Zinn & Arnove)
• Waging Nonviolent Struggle: 20th Century Practice And 21st Century Potential (Sharp)
• Walking with the Poor (Myers)
• War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning (Hedges)
• What Can One Person Do? Faith to Heal a Broken World (Alkire)
• What’s So Amazing about Grace? (Yancey)
• Where the Nations Meet: The Church in a Multicultural World (Rhodes)
• Who Comes in the Name of the Lord?: Jesus at the Margins (Recinos)
• Why Social Justice Matters (Brian Barry)
• Women Who Changed Things (Smith & Peavy)
• Yeshua: A Guide to the Real Jesus and the Original Church (Moseley)