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These are 10 books that came across our desks this year that we found added to the conversation in helpful, interesting, and beautiful ways.

Reclaiming your Community: You Don't Have to Move Out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One by Majora Carter

The Life We're Looking for: Reclaiming Relationship in a Technological World by Andy Crouch

The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy by Anand Giridharadas

I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times by Monica Guzman

Start with Hello (and Other Simple Ways to Live as Neighbors) by Shannan Martin

This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us by Cole Arthur Riley

The Connected Community: Discovering the Health, Wealth, and Power of Neighborhoods by Cormac Russell and John McKnight

Buried Seeds: Learning from the Vibrant Resilience of Marginalized Christian Communities by Alexia Salvatierra and Brandon Wrencher

How to Inhabit Time: Understanding the Past, Facing the Future, Living Faithfully Now by James Smith

Becoming Rooted: One Hundred Days of Reconnecting with Sacred Earth by Randy Woodley

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If you are interested in learning the fundamentals of a Parish-minded perspective, we recommend you start here.

Belonging: A Culture of Place by bell hooks

The Land: Place as Gift, Promise, and and Challenge in Biblical Faith by Walter Brueggemann

Acts: A Theological Commentary on the Bible by Willie James Jennings

Transforming Communities: How Other People Like You Are Healing Their Neighborhoods by Sandhya Rani Jha

The Patient Ferment of the Early Church: The Improbable Rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire by Alan Krieder

The Abundant Community: Awakening the Power of Families and Neighborhoods by John McKnight and Peter Block

The Gospel in a Pluralist Society by Leslie Newbigin

The Mission of the Church: Five Views in Conversation by Ruth Padilla DeBorst et al

Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life by Tish Harrison Warren

Shalom and the Community of Creation: An Indigenous Vision by Randy S. Woodley

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The Fellowship consists of 8 people who we believe are leading voices in the Parish Movement. Among this group are brilliant writers, speakers, artists, pastors, and entrepreneurs. Above all, our Fellowship members inspire us in their creative work for the flourishing of their neighborhoods.

Church Forsaken: Practicing Presence in Neglected Neighborhoods by Jonathan Brooks

Liberating Leadership: Reflections on the Struggle of Our Time by Jonathan Brooks et al

Reclaiming Your Community: You Don’t Have to Move Out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One by Majora Carter

Ecosystems of Jubilee: Economic Ethics for the Neighborhood by José Humphreys and Adam Gustine

Seeing Jesus in East Harlem: What Happens When Churches Show Up and Stay Put by José Humphreys

Falling Free: Rescued from the Life I Always Wanted by Shannan Martin

The Ministry of Ordinary Places: Waking up to God’s Goodness Around You by Shannan Martin

Start with Hello (and Other Simple Ways to Live as Neighbors) by Shannan Martin

To Alter Your World: Partnering with God to Rebirth Our Communities by Christiana Rice and Michael Frost

The New Parish: How Neighborhoods are Transforming Mission, Discipleship, and Community by Tim Soerens, Paul Sparks, and Dwight Friesen

Everywhere You Look: Discovering the Church Right Where you Are by Tim Soerens

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This page is an ever-evolving work in progress. Have a book you think we totally overlooked and should be on one of our lists? Have a topic for a list that you want to see us create? Email us to let us know!