“What are some books that every pastor should read?”
PTS faculty were asked this question in spring 2023. Consider these 15 recommendations for ethics:
- Reinhold Niebuhr, Moral Man and Immoral Society
- Ellen Ott Marshall, Introduction to Christian Ethics: Conflict, Faith, and Human Life
- Traci West, Disruptive Christian Ethics: When Racism and Women’s Lives Matter
- Emilie Townes, Womanist Ethics and the Cultural Production of Evil
- Jenell Williams Paris, The End of Sexual Identity: Why Sex is Too Important to Define Who We Are
- Jan Holton, Longing for Home: Forced Displacement and Postures of Hospitality
- Wendell Berry, Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community
- Charles Marsh, The Beloved Community
- Jonathan Kozol, Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
- Kelly Brown Douglas, Stand Your Ground
- Dorothy Day, Selected Writings
Economic Inequality
- Susan Crawford Sullivan, Living Faith: Everyday Religion and Mothers in Poverty
- Gustavo Gutierrez, We Drink from Our Own Wells
- Douglas Massey, Categorically Unequal
- Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed