Resources
Paul Louis Metzger
Setting the Spiritual Clock: Sacred Time Breaking Through the Secular Eclipse (Cascade, 2020)
Beatitudes, Not Platitudes: Jesus’ Invitation to the Good Life (Cascade, 2018)
Evangelical Zen: A Christian’s Spiritual Travels With a Buddhist Friend (Patheos, 2015)
Connecting Christ: How to Discuss Jesus in a World of Diverse Paths (Thomas Nelson, May 2012)
New Wine Tastings: Theological Essays of Cultural Engagement (Cascade, 2011)
The Gospel of John: When Love Comes to Town (InterVarsity Press, 2010)
Consuming Jesus: Beyond Race and Class Divisions in a Consumer Church (Eerdmans, 2007)
The Word of Christ and the World of Culture: Sacred and Secular through the Theology of Karl Barth (Eerdmans, 2003).
A World for All?: Global Civil Society in Political Theory and Trinitarian Theology (co-edited with William F. Storrar and Peter J. Casarella; Eerdmans, 2011)
Trinitarian Soundings in Systematic Theology (T&T Clark International, 2005).
Brad Harper
Space at the Table: Conversations between an Evangelical Theologian and His Gay Son
Brad Harper and Paul Louis Metzger
Exploring Ecclesiology: An Evangelical and Ecumenical Introduction (co-authored with Brad Harper; Brazos, 2009);
Matthew Farlow
The Dramatizing of Theology: Humanity’s Participation in God’s Drama (Wipf & Stock, 2017)
Ross Halbach
John M. Perkins, Let Justice Roll Down
Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Martin Luther, On the Freedom of a Christian
Karl Barth, The Humanity of God
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison
James Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree
TF Torrance, The Mediation of Christ
Colin E. Gunton, The One, the Three, and the Many
Athanasius of Alexandria, On the Incarnation
Kazoh Kitamori, Theology of the Pain of God
Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Wounded Healer
Jonathan Edwards, The Nature of True Virtue
Rufus Burrow, Jr., God and Human Dignity: The Personalism, Theology, and Ethics of Martin Luther King, Jr.
R.N. Frost, High Pressure Zone Spirituality, Cultural Encounters, Volume 3, Number 2, Summer 2007, pp. 65-80
Cultural Encounters: A Journal for the Theology of Culture
Published by The Institute for Cultural Engagement: New Wine, New Wineskins at Multnomah University and Seminary
Paul Louis Metzger, New Wine Tastings: Theological Essays of Cultural Engagement, (Cascade, 2011).
Paul Louis Metzger, Consuming Jesus: Beyond Race and Class Divisions in a Consumer Church, (Eerdmans, 2007).
Colin E. Gunton, The Promise of Trinitarian Theology.
Brad Harper and Paul Louis Metzger, Exploring Ecclesiology: An Evangelical and Ecumenical Introduction (Brazos, 2009)
Trinitarian Soundings in Systematic Theology (T&T Clark International, 2005)
S. Joshua Swamidass, The Genealogical Adam and Eve: The Surprising Science of Universal Ancestry (IVP Academic, 2016)
Ian G. Barbour, When Science Meets Religion: Enemies, Strangers, or Partners?
Peter Harrison, The Territories of Science and Religion.
Ronald L. Numbers, Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion.
Paul Louis Metzger, Connecting Christ: How to Discuss Jesus in a World of Diverse Paths (Thomas Nelson, 2012)
Paul Louis Metzger with Kyogen Carlson, Evangelical Zen: A Christian’s Spiritual Travels with a Buddhist Friend (Patheos, 2015)
John W. Morehead, A Charitable Orthopathy: Christian Perspectives on Emotions in Multifaith Engagement Pickwick Publications (2020)
General Mental Health Resources
Northwest Mental Health Technology Transfer Center Network
National Alliance on Mental Illness
Also look for your local chapter NAMI.
From NAMI.
Helping provide teens and young adults with the skills and support to grow into healthy, thriving adults.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
SAMHSA
SAMSHA Faith Based Initiatives and Resources
HHS Center for Faith and Opportunity Initiatives
“The Partnership Center”
From HHS
Mental Health and Faith Community Partnership
From the American Psychiatric Association
Includes free downloads:
Mental Health: A Guide for Faith Leaders
Quick Reference Guide on Mental Health for Faith Leaders
Trauma-Informed Care
by Chris Haughee
Becoming a Trauma-Informed Faith Community
from Calvin Institute of Christian Worship
Suicide Prevention and Postvention
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
Suicide Prevention Resource Center
After a Suicide: Recommendations for Services and Other Public Memorial Observances
from SPRC
American Foundation for Suicidology
National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention (Action Alliance)
The nation’s public-private partnership for suicide prevention
Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society.
socialjusticebooks.org/booklists/disabilities/
Faith based non-profit serving adults with intellectual and physical disabilities
Non-profit serving adults with intellectual and physical disabilities
Guidelight (formally The Elisha Foundation)
Nonprofit networking organization and service to families and churches dealing with disabilities
The National Fragile X Foundation
Science resource for people affected with Fragile X Syndrome
Brad Harper and Drew Harper, Space at the Table: Conversations between an Evangelical Theologian and His Gay Son (Zeal Books, 2016)
Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith, Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America
Willie James Jennings, The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race.
J. Kameron Carter, Race: A Theological Account.
Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness.
John M. Perkins, Let Justice Roll Down
Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Rodney Clapp, Naming Neoliberalism: Exposing the Spirit of Our Age (Fortress Press, 2021)
Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society, with an introduction by Robert K. Merton (Vintage Books, 1964).
David T. Koyzis, Political Visions & Illusions: A Survey & Christian Critique of Contemporary Ideologies, 2nd ed., with a foreword by Richard J. Mouw (IVP Academic, 2019).
David C. Kresta, Jesus on Main Street: Good News through Community Economic Development, with a foreword by Paul Louis Metzger (Cascade Books, 2021).
Paul Louis Metzger, “Downward Mobility and Trickle-Up Economics: A Trinitarian Reflection on Money and Power,” Presentation for the Carl F. H. Henry Center at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, February 2013; (Free download)
John M. Perkins, Beyond Charity: The Call to Christian Community Development (Baker Books, 1993).
Michael J. Sandel, What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012).
William F. Storrar, Peter J. Casarella, and Paul Louis Metzger, eds., A World for All?: Global Civil Society in Political Theory and Trinitarian Theology (Eerdmans, 2011).
John R.W. Stott, Mission: Rethinking Vocation, with a foreword by Steve Garber (Regent College Publishing, 2019).