Curated Media Collection

Explore our curated collection of books carefully selected for your review. More media, including podcasts and additional resources, will be added soon to support your learning journey.

Adaptive Leadership

101 Leadership Insights: Practical Tools, Tips, and Techniques for New and Seasoned Leaders by Del Walinga and Bob Phillips

The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World by Ronald A. Heifetz, Marty Linsky, Alexander Grashow

Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work & Life, One Conversation at a Time by Susan Scott

Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek

Strengths Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Teams, and Why People Follow by Don Clifton

Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy by Mo Gawdat

Calling Bullsh*t: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven by Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin D. West

Inclusive Conversations: Fostering Equity, Empathy, and Belonging Across Differences  by Mary-Frances Winters

Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip Heath and Dan Heath

Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change by William Bridges and Susan Bridges

Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by Roger Fisher, William L. Ury and Bruce Patton

How to Pioneer: A Step-by-Step Guide to Getting Started by David Male

Emergent Strategy Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by Adrienne Maree Brown

A Door Set Open: Grounding Change in Mission and Hope by Peter L. Steinke

Transforming Congregational Culture Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change by Anthony B. Robinson

Adaptive Actions: Leveraging Uncertainty in Your Organization by Glenda H. Eoyang and Royce J. Holladay

Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory by Tod Bolsinger

Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization by Robert Kegan, Lisa Laskow Lahey

Memories, Hope, and Conversations: Appreciative Inquiry and Congregational Change by Mark Lau Branson

Leadership for Vital Congregations by Anthony B. Robinson

Church After: Finding Transformation in Unexpected Change by Anna Mitchell Hall

The Great Emergence: How Christianity Is Changing and Why by Phyllis Tickle

Systems

Multiple Intelligences: New Horizons and Theory in Practice by Howard Gardner

Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella Meadows

The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton

Understanding Your Congregation as a System: The Manual by George D. Parsons and Speed B. Leas

The Eight Concepts of Bowen Theory: A New Way of Thinking About the Individual and the Group by Roberta M. Gilbert

Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella Meadows

Spiritual Formation

Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World by By Vivek H. Murthy, M.D.

Salsa, Soul, and Spirit: Leadership for a Multicultural Age by Juana Bordas

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

The Power of Ritual: Turning Everyday Activities into Soulful Practices by Casper ter Kuile

The Great Search: Turning to Earth & Soul in the Quest for Healing & Home by John Philip Newell

Dancing in the Darkness: Spiritual Lessons for Thriving in Turbulent Times by Otis Moss, III

Soul Types: Matching Your Personality and Spiritual Path by Sandra Krebs Hirs, Jane Kise

The Wisdom Pattern: Order, Disorder, Reorder by Richard Rohr

My Grandmother’s Hands: Radicalized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem

From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life by Arthur C. Brooks

Four Hasidic Masters and Their Struggle Against Melancholy by Elie Wiesel

The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu’s Te Ching Adapted for a New Age by John Heider, Ph.D.

Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience by Brené Brown

The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer

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

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

When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times by Pema Chodron

Sabbath as Resistance: Saying No to the Culture of Now by Walter Brueggemann

Work: How to Find Joy and Meaning in Each Hour of the Day by Thich Nhat Hanh

Earth, Our Original Monastery by Christine Valters Paintner

Restoring Sanity: Practices to Awaken Generosity, Creativity, and Kindness in Ourselves and Our Organizations by Margaret Wheatley

Thrive: Spiritual Habits of Transforming Congregations by Ruth Fletcher

Becoming a Healthier Pastor: Family Systems Theory and the Pastor’s Own Family by Ronald W. Richardson

Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski, PhD and Amelia Nagoski, DMA

The Art of Theological Reflection by John De Beer, Patricia O’Connell Killen

The Soul of a Pilgrim: Eight Practices for the Journey Within by Christine Valters Paintner

Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal, and Delight in our Busy Lives by Wayne Muller

Creative Innovation

Ten Types of Innovation: The Discipline of Building Breakthroughs by Larry Keeley, Helen Walters, Ryan Pikkel, Brian Quinn

Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace

Thinkertoys Second Edition: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques by Michael Michalko

Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant
by W. Chan Kim and Renee A. Mauborgne

How to Fly a Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery by Kevin Ashton

Zig Zag: The Surprising Path to Greater Creativity by Keith Sawyer

The Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us About Innovation
by Frans Johansson

Ecumenical and Interreligious

Religion and Politics in America: Faith, Culture, and Strategic Choices by Allen D. Hertzke, Laura R. Olson, Kevin R. den Dulk, Robert Booth Fowler

Moving into the Ecumenical Future: Foundations of a Paradigm for Christian Ethics by John W. Crossin

Evangelical vs. Liberal: The Clash of Christian Cultures in the Pacific Northwest by James K. Wellman

Faith, Nationalism, and the Future of Liberal Democracy by David M. Elcott

Captain America and the Crusade Against Evil: The Dilemma of Zealous Nationalism by Robert Jewett and John Shelton Lawrence

Religion and Public Life in the Pacific Northwest: The None Zone Edited by O’Connell Killen, Mark Silk

Religion Pluralism in America: The Contentious History of a Founding Ideal by William R. Hutchison

Confronting Racism and White Supremacy in the US Edited by Michael R. Fisher Jr.

Pope Francis and Mercy: A Dynamic Theological Hermeneutic by Gill K. Goulding, CJ

How to Be a Perfect Stranger: The Essential Religious Etiquette Handbook Edited by Stuart M. Matlins and Arthur J. Magida

Monotheism, Intolerance, and the Path to Pluralistic Politics by Christopher A. Haw

Religious Right, Religious Wrong by Lloyd J. Averill

The Jesuits in the United States: A Concise History by David J. Collins

Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond

Leadership Formation

Gratitude, Injury, and Repair in a Pandemic Age: An Interreligious Dialogue Edited by Michael Reid Trice and Patricia O’Connell Killen

The Necessary Revolution: Working Together to Create a Sustainable World
Peter M. Senge, Bryan Smith, Nina Kruschwitz, Joe Laur, Sara Schley

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg

Hidden Blessings: Midlife Crisis as a Spiritual Awakening by Jett Psaris, PhD

Who Do We Choose to Be? Facing Reality, Claiming Leadership, Restoring Sanity by Margaret Wheatley

Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool’s Guide to Surviving with Grace by Gordon MacKenzie

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain

The Almanack of Naval Ravinkant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness by Eric Jorgenson

Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan and Al Switzler

Leaders Who Last: Sustaining Yourself and Your Ministry by Margaret J. Marcuson

Dare to Lead by Brené Brown, PhD, MSW

Transitions: Making Sense of Life’s Changes by William Bridges and Susan Bridges

The Way Of Transition: Embracing Life’s Most Difficult Moments by William Bridges

Leadership is a Relationship: How to Put People First in the Digital World by Michael S. Erwin, Willys DeVoll

Healthy Democracy

Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America by Heather Cox Richardson

Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class by Sarah Smarsh

Great Mystics and Social Justice: Walking on the Two Feet of Love by Susan Rakoczy

Divinity & Diversity: A Christian Affirmation of Religious Pluralism by Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki, PhD

Journey to the Common Good by Walter Brueggemann

Disunity in Christ: Uncovering the Hidden Forces that Keep Us Apart by Christena Cleveland

Financial Literacy

Financial Intelligence: A Manager’s Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean by Karen Berman, Joe Knight, John Case

Holy Currencies: Six Blessings for Sustainable Missional Ministries by Eric H.F. Law

Stewardship for Vital Congregations by Anthony B. Robinson

The Power of Asset Mapping: How Your Congregation Can Act on Its Gifts by Luther K. Snow

Ignatian Discernment

Pursuing God’s Will Together: A Discernment Practice for Leadership Groups by Ruth Haley Barton

Discerning God’s Will Together: A Spiritual Practice for the Church by Danny E. Morris, Charles M. Olsen