These are books (and articles) that will never leave my shelf, because I return to them over and over for perspective, nourishment, and centering.
Stephanie Paulsell / Honoring the Body: Meditations on a Christian Practice (2002, Jossey-Bass)
Christine D. Pohl / Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition (1999, W.B. Eerdmans)
Barbara Brown Taylor / An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith (2009, HarperOne)
Parker Palmer / Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation (1999, Jossey-Bass)
Parker Palmer / A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life (2004, Jossey-Bass)
Henri Nouwen / Reaching Out: The Three Movements of the Spiritual Life (1986, Penguin Random House)
Elizabeth Lewis Hall / “What are Bodies for? An Integrative Examination of Embodiment” (2010, Christian Scholars Review, 39, no. 2)
Roger Lundin / The Culture of Interpretation: Christian Faith and the Postmodern World (1993, W. B. Eerdmans)
Shane Claiborne / The Irresistible Revolution: Living As An Ordinary Radical (2006, Zondervan)
Phyllis Tickle / The Divine Hours (2001, Doubleday)