The Books I Use Regularly

Here is a list of books I use as required reading regularly in my courses at Mount Vernon Nazarene University. Merry Christmas!

• Allen, Roland. Missionary Methods: St. Paul’s or Ours? Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdman’s, 2001 (reprint of 1962 edition). http://www.gospeltruth.net/miss_methods.htm (free online, 1927 edition) 

• Barley, Nigel. 1983/2000. The Innocent Anthropologist: Notes from a Mud Hut. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press. 
• Braun, Adam. 2014. The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change.  New York: Scribner. 
• Cleveland, Christena. 2013. Disunity in Christ: Uncovering the Hidden Forces That Keep Us Apart. IVP Books.
• Cone, James H. 2012. Martin and Malcolm in America: Dream or Nightmare? Orbis Books. 

• Donovan, Vincent. 1978/2003. Christianity Rediscovered. Maryknoll: Orbis Books.

• Elmer, Duane L. 2006. Cross Cultural Servanthood. IVP Press. 

• Escobar, Samuel. 2003. The New Global Mission: The Gospel from Everywhere to Everyone. Downers Grove: IVP Press. 
• Fujimura, Makoto. 2016. Silence and Beauty: Hidden Faith Born in Suffering. Downers Grove: Intervarsity Press.
• Frost, Michael and Hirsch, Alan. 2003. The Shaping of Things to Come: Innovation and Mission for the 21st Century Church. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson. 
• Greer, Peter and Haggard, Anna. 2014. The Spiritual Danger of Doing Good. Minneapolis: Bethany House Publishers. 
• Hawthorne, John W. 2014. A First Step into a Much Larger porld: The Christian University and Beyond. Wipf & Stock. 
• Hiebert, Paul, Shaw R. Daniel, Titenou, Tite. 2000. Understanding Folk Religions. Baker Academic.

• Howell, Brian M. and Paris, Jenell Williams. 2011. Introducing Cultural Anthropology: A Christian Perspective. Baker Academic. 
• Hunter, George. 2010. The Celtic Way of Evangelism, the Tenth Anniversity Edition: How Christianity Can Win the West . . . Again. Nashville: Abingdon Press. 
• Keller, Timothy. 2012. Center Church. Grand Rapids: Zondervan. 
• Lingenfelter, Sherwood. 2016. Ministering Cross Culturally. Third Edition. Baker Academic.
• Linthicum, Robert. 1991. City of God, City of Satan: A Biblical Theology of the Urban Church. Grand Rapids: Zondervan. 
• Lodahl, Michael. 2010. Claiming Abraham: Reading the Bible and the Qur’an Side by Side. Grand Rapids: Brazos Press.
• Lupton, Robert D. 2011. Theirs is the Kingdom: Celebrating the Gospel in Urban America. HarperOne. 
• Lupton, Robert D. 2012. Toxic Charity: How Churches and Charities Hurt Those They Help, and How to Reverse It. HarperOne. 
• Lupton, Robert D. 2016. Charity Detox: What Charity Would Look Like If We Cared About Results. HarperOne.
• Nathan,  Rebekah. 2006. My Freshman Year. Penguin Books. 
• Nouwen, Henri, McNeill, Donald P., Morrison, Douglas A. 2006. Compassion: A Reflection on the Christian Life. Image Books. 
• O’Donohue, John. 1997. Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom. New York: HarperCollins Publishers.
• Pierson, Paul E. 2009. The Dynamics of Christian Mission: History through a Missiological Perspective.  Pasadena, CA: Wm. Carey Library. 

• Stearns, Richard. 2010. The Hole in Our Gospel: What does God expect of us? The answer that changed my life and might just change the world. Nashville: Thomas Nelson. 

There are 27 books representing eleven courses. There are 32 authors.  Only four are women.  Five are non-white or persons of color.

I might be doing some curriculum revision so I wanted to see all at once what my required reading list looks like.