Friday, August 27, 2010

Summer Reading: Pastor Gabriel's Summer Diet

Some of you have asked what I've read or I'm in the process reading this summer so here's the motley crue of readings I've engaged in.

Biographies and Autobiographies:

Long Walk To Freedom: The Autobiagraphy of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela

Team of Rivals: The Political Genuis of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin


Political/Social/ Historical Commentary:

The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama by Gwen Ifill

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington

Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity by Samuel P. Huntington

* I'm re-reading the two Huntington works in preparation for a lecture at Mercer University and McAFee School of Theology that seeks to give a critical response to many of these assumptions in his work*

Democracy and Tradition by Jeffrey Stout

Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurmann


Devotional


The Books of Acts
The Book of Galatians

The Praying Church Idea Book edited by Douglas A. Kamstra

Leading on Empty: Refilling Your Tank and Renewing Your Passion by Wayne Cordeiro





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