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Books for Pastors: Spirituality

Posted on March 11, 2024November 6, 2023 by ptsblog
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“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

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