Current Reads:
Linn Marie Tonstad -- Queer Theology
Patrick Cheng -- Radical Love
Miguel A. Del La Torre -- Embracing Hopelessness
Connections and Communities:
Kate Johnson -- Radical Friendship
Family:
Mia Birdsong -- How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community
Andy Crouch -- The Tech-Wise Family
Inspiration:
Michelle DeRusha -- 50 Women Every Christian Should Know
Personality:
Sally Hogshead -- How the World Sees You
Poetry:
Edwina Gately -- A Mystical Heart
Edwina Gately -- There was no path So I trod one.
Chad Michael Rimmer -- Yellow
Rest:
Tricia Hersey -- Rest is Resistance
Wayne Muller -- Sabbath
Trauma and Healing:
Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D. -- The Body Keeps the Score
Aubin Forest -- How to Heal from Childhood Trauma Workbook
Wellness and Clergy:
Matt Bloom -- Flourishing in Ministry: How to Cultivate Clergy Well Being
Rae Jean Proeschold-Bell, , Jason Byassee -- Faithful and Fractured: Responding to the Clergy Health Crisis
John R. Matthews, Kristina Gutierrez, Ross Peterson -- Health, Holiness, and Wholeness for Ministry Leaders
William E. Roozeboom -- Neuroplasticity, Peformativity, and Clergy Wellness
Peter Scazzero -- The Emotional Healthy Church
Dwight Zscheile, Michael Binder, Tessa Pinkstaff -- Leading Faithful Innovation
Yoga Therapy:
Peter Levine and Maggie Phillips, PhD -- Freedom from Pain
John Harris --Vagus Nerve and Overthinking
Picture Books:
Books for Kiddos -- https://sites.google.com/site/mrsbroam/home/books
Books About Love: Love by Matt Del La Pena (also Amor)
Susan Verde Picture Books:
I Am Yoga (2015)
I Am Peace: A Book of Mindfulness (2017)
I Am Love: A Book of Compassion (2019)
I Am Human: A Book of Empathy (2018)
I Am One: A Book of Action (2020)
I Am Courage: A Book of Resilience (2021)
I Am Me: A Book of Authenticity (2022)
Who I Am: Words I Tell Myself (September 2023)
Podcasts:
Biology of Trauma
https://www.allplacestogether.org/listen
Quotes:
“If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.” ― Gospel of Thomas
Resources:
The Lord’s prayer:
We pray our common prayer that Christ taught us. (or use the following adaptation)
Eternal Spirit, Earth-maker, Pain-bearer, Life-giver, Source of all that is and that shall be, Father and Mother of us all, Loving God, in whom is heaven: The hallowing of your name echoes through the universe! The way of your justice be followed by the peoples of the world! Your heavenly will be done by all created beings! Your beloved community of peace and freedom sustain our hope and come on earth. With the bread we need for today, feed us. In the hurts we absorb from one another, forgive us. In times of temptation and test, strengthen us. From trials too great to endure, spare us. From the grip of all that is evil, free us. For you reign in the glory of the power that is love, now and forever. Amen. (Adapted from The New Zealand Book of Prayer | He Karakia Mihinare o Aotearoa. This version of the Lord’s prayer was influenced by Maori theologians)