My Reading List During Discernment

IF THERE'S ONE BOOK YOU SHOULD READ for discernment to a vocation for ordained ministry:

Suddenly He Thinks He's a Sunbeam by Adey Grummet

Elsewise, there are a million reading lists for discernment and ordination training. This is by no means definitive, it is simply a record of the books I have read.

I like to keep things varied in my reading, especially if I'm reading non-fiction on the same topic, so I've dipped into the recommended reading lists from various places and taken the most highly recommended that caught my fancy, or some of the books on the list I just saw on the shelf in Church House Publishing Bookshop/Greenbelt's bookshop tent!


READ PRE-DISCERNMENT
  • Cranky, Beautiful Faith – Nadia Bolz-Weber
  • Love Unknown – Ruth Burrows
  • A Guide to the Church of England – Martin Davie
  • An Almighty Passion – Alan Hargrave
  • The Testament of Mary – Colm TolbĂ­n
  • Jesus Freak – Sara Miles
  • Being A Chaplain – Miranda Threlfall-Holmes and Mark Newitt
  • Religion for Atheists - Alain de Botton
  • In God's Hands - Desmond Tutu
  • Women in Waiting: Prejudice at the Heart of the Church - Julia Ogilvy
  • Looking Through the Cross - Graham Tomlin
  • A Lot Like Eve – Joanna Jepson
READ DURING DISCERNMENT
  • Being A Priest Today – Christopher Cocksworth and Rosalind Brown
  • The Christian Priest Today – Michael Ramsey
  • Called or Collared? – Francis Dewar
  • I Think It’s God Calling – Katy Magdalene Price
  • Jesus and Peter: Growing in friendship with God - Michael Perham
  • What Anglicans Believe: An Introduction - Sam Wells
  • Hearing the Call: Stories of Young Vocation - Gordon Mursell
  • Lord and Saviour: Jesus of Nazareth – Alister McGrath
  • Military Chaplaincy in Contention – Andrew Todd
  • The Hidden Life of Prayer – David Macintyre
  • The Life and Work of a Priest – John Pritchard
  • Imperfect Mirrors – Kevin Scully
  • The Shack - Wm Paul Young
  • The Shipping News - Annie Proulx
  • This is Our Calling - Charles Richardson, Rowan Williams
  • The Screwtape Letters - C. S. Lewis
  • Abraham: A journey through Lent - Meg Warner
  • Faith and the Creeds - Alistair McGrath
  • Steel Angels: The Personal Qualities of a Priest - Magdalen Smith
  • The 100-Minute Bible - Michael Hinton, Bishop John Pritchard
  • Being Disciples: Essentials of the Christian Life - Rowan Williams
  • Dazzling Darkness - Rachel Mann
  • Shameless - Nadia Bolz-Weber
  • For God and Country: Considering the Call to Military Chaplaincy - Brian Bohlman
  • Clergy: The Origin of Species - Martyn Percy
  • God, Sexuality, and the Self - Sarah Coakley
  • Love Wins - Rob Bell
  • One Coin Found - Emmy Kegler

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