President’s Book Corner

Posted by admin on Apr 13, 2010 in Arts & Culture | 0 comments

Between the office and my study at home I have an abundance of books that I love, many to which I go back to again and again. Most recently read and/or revisited books are:
 
The Next Christendom:  The Coming of Global Christianity by Philip Jenkins
This is a landmark work that unpacks one of the most important sociological realities of the present age missed by many who study the future, the remarkable expansion of Christianity in the Global South and the projected growth of Christianity and Islam worldwide between today and 2050, a “Wake-up call for Northern Christians.”

Jesus in Beijing by David Aikman
This book gives the reader a sweeping look at the growth of Christianity in the People’s Republic of China and “how Christianity is transforming China and changing the global balance of power.”
 
Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition by Christine Pohl
Pohl give us a classic profound discussion of the Biblical, historical, and contemporary practice of opening hearts and lives to others, making room for others with compassion, especially to the “stranger, the poor, the weak, and those who are different” in Jesus’ name.
 
The Presence of God in the Christian Life:  John Wesley and the Means of Grace by Henry H. Knight
Knight presents a rewrite of his doctoral dissertation at Emory University to give us a deep, profound discussion of our participation in God’s means by which God pours his grace and therefore himself into our lives and occasions the ends he desires: a people whose hearts are transformed in
holy love.

The Power of Servant Leadership, edited by Larry C. Spears
A classic: compiled and edited writings of Robert K. Greenleaf, possibly the most revered and cited thinker on the topic of leadership. Spears gives us a collection of eleven powerful, compelling essays on servant-leadership providing us with refined thinking on servant leadership and the related importance of vision and wholeness.