Reading Groups

Gathering around tables, over lunch, relevant books are discussed. Typically, two books are selected each fall and spring semester. Selections are organized around several themes: Mission, Teaching and Learning, Technology and Personal Development. Below is a sample of some of the books read in recent years. This list also makes an excellent resource for personal reading goals.

Teaching and Learning

- - Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning, James M. Lang
  - On Christian Teaching: Practicing Faith in the Classroom, David I. Smith
  - Make it Stick: The Science of Successful Learning, Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, et al.
  - The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain, Annie Murphy Paul
  - Teaching Change: How to Develop Independent Thinkers Using Relationships, Resilience, and Reflection, José Antonio Bowen
  - Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks

Mission

- - Diversity Matters:Race, Ethnicity, and the Future of Christian Higher Education, Karen A. Longman
  - After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America, Jessica Goudeau
  - Until we are Free: My Fight for Human Rights in Iran, Shirin Ebadi
  - The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth, Allison Barr
  - I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness, Austin Channing Brown
  - The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism, Jemar Tisby and Lecrae Moore

Personal Development

- - Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts., Brené Brown
  - Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know, Adam Grant
  - The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact, Chip Heath, Dan Heath, et al.

Technology

- - Ecologies of Faith in the Digital Age: Spiritual Growth Through Online Education, Stephen D. Lowe and Mary E. Lowe
  - Distracted: Why Students Can’t Focus and What You Can Do About It, James M. Lang
  - Remembering and Forgetting in the Age of Technology: Teaching, Learning, and the Science of Memory in a Wired World (Part of: Teaching and Learning in Higher Education), Michelle D. Miller