“What are some books that every pastor should read?”
PTS faculty were asked this question in spring 2023. Consider these 15 recommendations for spirituality:
- James A. Smith, On The Road with Saint Augustine: A Real- World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
- Henri Nouwen, Spiritual Formation: Following the Movements of the Spirit
- Roger Owens, Everyday Contemplative
- Barbara Brown Taylor, An Altar in the World
- Dale C. Allison Jr., Encountering Mystery: Religious Experience in a Secular Age
- Gustavo Gutierrez, We Drink from Our Own Wells
Mysticism
- Evelyn Underhill, The House of the Soul: Concerning the Inner Life
- Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love
- Thomas Kelly, A Testament of Devotion
Spiritual Memoirs
- Reinhold Neibuhr, Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic
- Sara Miles, Take This Bread
- Patrick Reyes, Nobody Cries When We Die: God, Community, and Surviving to Adulthood
- Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens
- Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories that Make Us
- John Perkins, Let Justice Roll Down