From Pastor Lloyd…

Doctoral Program Reading–Year 1 (Pastoral Readiness)

BOLD and blue (or black) indicates books read, BOLD and red indicates currently being read, BOLD and purple indicates “fantastic read” in my opinion

• Bauman, Zygmunt. Consuming Life. Maiden, MA: Polity, 2007.
• Branson, Mark Lau. Memories, Hopes, and Conversations: Appreciative Inquiry and
  Congregational Change. Herdon, VA: Alban, 2004.
• Brown, Juanita. The World Café. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler: 2006.
• Brueggemann, Walter. Cadences of Home: Preaching Among the Exiles. Louisville: John Knox
  Press, 1997.
• Cormode, Scott. Making Spiritual Sense: Christian Leaders as Spiritual Interpreters. Nashville:
  Abingdon, 2006.
• Franke, John. The Character of Theology. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2005.
• Giddens, Anthony. The Consequences of Modernity. Stanford, CA: Stanford University, 1990.
• Guder, Darrell (ed). Missional Church: A Vision for the Sending of the Church in North
  America. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1998.
• Heifetz, Ronald & Linsky, Marty. Leadership on the Line. Boston: Harvard School of Business,
  2002.
• Kreider, Alan. The Change of Conversion and the Origin of Christendom. Harrisburg, PA:
  Trinity Press International, 1999.
• Laszlo, Ervin. A Systems View of the World. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 1996.
• Palmer, Parker. To Know As We Are Known. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1993.
• Pascale, Richard et al. Surfing the Edge of Chaos. New York: Crown/Random House, 2000.
• Roxburgh, Alan & Fred Romanuk. The Missional Leader: Equipping Your Church to Reach a
  Changing World. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2006.
• Roxburgh, Alan. Missional Map-Making. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2010.
• Roxburgh, Alan. The Sky is Falling: Leaders Lost in Transition. Boise: ACI Publishing, 2005.
• Smith, James. Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2006.
• Stringfellow, William. An Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land. Eugene:
  Wipf and Stock, 2004.
• Taylor, Charles. Modern Social Imaginaries. Durham, NC : Duke University, 2004.
• Toulmin, Stephen. Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity. Chicago: University of
  Chicago Press, 1992.
• Van Gelder, Craig (ed.). The Missional Church in Context. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans,
  2007.
• Williams, Dean. Real Leadership. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler: 2005.

• Barber, Benjamin. Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow
  Citizens Whole. New York: Norton, 2007.
• Bauman, Zygmunt. Liquid Modernity. Polity Press, 2000.
• Castells, Manuel. The Rise of the Network Society. Blackwell Publishers, 2000. (Volume 1, 2nd
  edition)
• Ellis, Joseph J. The Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation. Vintage Books, 2002.
• Giddens, Anthony. Runaway World: How Globalization is Reshaping Our Lives. Routledge,
  2002.
• Heifetz, Ronald. Leadership Without Easy Answers. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1999.
• Johnson, Steven. Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software.
  Scribner 2002.
• Meyer, Christopher & Stan Davis. It’s Alive: The Coming Convergence of Information,
  Biology, and Business. Crown Publishing Group, 2003.
• Rogers, Everett M. The Diffusion of Innovations. 5th Edition. New York: The Free Press, 2003.
• Roxburgh, Alan. Missionary Congregation, Leadership & Liminality. Trinity Press, 1997.
• Senge, Peter et al. The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook. New York: Doubleday, 1994.