What I'm Reading This Term

Don't you wish you were in seminary too? A lot of these books just kick butt and I'm excited.

I'll start with those for class, and then get into my 'extra-curricular' readings:

Institutes of the Christian Religion (vols. 1 and 2), Jean Calvin
Handbook of Christian Theology
A People's History of the United States-Howard Zinn
Welcome to the Desert of the Real (essays following 9/11) Slavoj Zizek
Democracy Matters--Cornell West
The Chomsky Reader--Noam Chomsky
Preaching--Craddock
Encountering God--Diana L. Eck
God for a Secular Society--Jurgen Moltmann
Reading Derrida/Thinking Paul--Ted Jennings
The Scandalous Book of James--Elsa Tamez
Culture and Imperialism--Edward Said
The Preaching Life--Barbara Brown Taylor
The Threat of Life--Walter Brueggemann
St. Paul: The Foundation of Universalism--Alain Badiou
Paul Among Jews and Gentiles--Krister Stendahl
Women's Bible Commentary--Newsome and Ringe
Queer Bible Commentary--Guest, et al
Heirs of Paul--J. Christian Beker
The Archetype of Initiation--Robert Moore
Facing the Dragon--Moore
Boundaries of the Soul--June Singer
The Courage to Be--Paul Tillich
Engaging the Powers--Walter Wink
Liberating Visions--Robert Michael Franklin
Pedagogy of the Oppressed--Paulo Freire
Teaching to Transgress--bell hooks
The Sacred and the Profane--Mircea Eliade
Christianity Through Non-Christian Eyes--Paul Griffiths, ed.

And the extras:

Church in the Round--Letty Russell (gift from the author)
Dictionary of Feminist Theologies--Clarkson and Russell (gift of the author)
Cunt: A Declaration of Independence--Inge Muscio
Cinderella and Her Sisters: The Envied and the Envying--Ulanov
Casting Stones in the Household of God--Thistlethwaite/Nakashima Brock
Rules for Radicals--Saul Alinsky
Dark Night of the Soul--St. John of the Cross
Boundary Leaders--Gary Gunderson
Always Being Reformed: Faith for a Fragmented World--Shirley Guthrie
Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition--Christine D. Pohl
Deeply Woven Roots: Improving the Quality of Life in Your Community--Gary Gunderson

If you would like to read along with me on any of these, let's do so. It could be kind of fun. And it's too cold outside anyway.

peace,

Le Anne