Here’s a brief look into what we have been and are currently reading. If you would like any reviews on past reads, or have recommendations for future reading, let us know!
Andrew’s Reading List
Currently Reading:
- Naked Economics by Charles Wheelan
- The Making of a Periphery: Economic Development and Cultural Encounters in Southern Tanzania Edited by Pekka Seppala
- The End of Poverty by Jeffery D. Sachs
- Simplified Swahili by Peter Wilson
Recent Reading:
- The Fate of Africa by Martin Meredith (Epic book on post-independence Africa)
- Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World by Mark Pendergrast
- The Devils Cup by Stewart Lee Allen (a history of coffee)
- That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis
- Teaming with Microbes by Jeff Lowenfels and Wayne Lewis
- Dead Aid by Dambisa Moyo
- Journeys of the Muslim Nation and the Christian Church by David W. Shenk
- Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- Shop Class as Soul Craft by Matthew Campbell
- Animal Vegetable Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
- Making Room: Recovering hospitality as a Christian Tradition by Christine D. Pohl (Read my reflections on Making Room)
Future Reading:
- Zeitoun by David Eggars
- How not to speak of God by Peter Rollins
- Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community by Wendell Berry
- Anthropology for Christian Witness by Charles Kraft
- Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen
Sarah’s Reading List:
Currently Reading:
- Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community by Wendell Berry
- Simplified Swahili by Peter Wilson
Past Reading:
- Shadow of the Hegemon by Orson Scott Card
- Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
- Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris (Audiobook)
- Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
We just finished a short study on Sunday mornings on hospitality… how it’s a command, not a request/gift. Its pretty interesting and convicting!
I hear the hospitality wave is flowing through Bay Area.
Sachs’ book is great.
Have you read any Ron Sider? I read his work and I heard him speak. He is excellent.
Also I have recently read Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Crandle. One of my favorite authors currently is Anne Lamott though.
Good book list, Andrew!!
I enjoyed every word of The Fate of Africa. Well, actually I should rephrase that. I cried through a good bit of it, and my heart was silently tearing through a good bit more of it. But it was one of those life-shaping reads that only come around every decade or so. How’s your progress on it. (It’s a tome, isn’t it!)