Books By Our Clergy
The Reverend Canon Chad Jarnagin:
The Congruent Life: Liberation, Healing, and the Future of Faith (Quoir, 2026)
Father Jarnagin argues for a faith that is whole, healing, and aligned with one’s lived experience rather than divided by harmful teachings or religious dissonance. It present contemplative practices, reflection, and spiritual rhythms as paths toward peace, freedom, and integrity. Overall, the book frames Christianity as a liberating, inclusive, and future-facing way of life that heals rather than confines.
Learning to Be: Reconstructing Peace & Spiritual Health (Morgan James Publishing, 2019)
Father Jarnagin encourages his readers to stop chasing productivity and instead slow down, embrace mystery, and attend to spiritual health. It frames peace as something rebuilt from the inside through being present, reflective, and receptive rather than constantly doing more. Overall, the book is a call to cultivate inner wholeness so that creativity, faith, and life flow from a healthier soul.
The Right Reverend Abbott Danny Bryant:
Unless a Seed Falls to the Ground: Welcoming the Death of the Whiteness Gospel (Quoir, 2026)
In a prophetic call to the church, Bishop Danny uses the image of John 12:24 to argue that real spiritual growth requires surrender, loss, and transformation rather than clinging to old forms of power. It calls readers to confront and let die the “whiteness gospel,” framing that as necessary for liberation, honesty, and deeper faith. The book’s core message is that what looks like death can become the beginning of abundant, life-giving change.
The Reverend Mother Flo Paris Oakes:
Little Prayers for Ordinary Days (InterVarsity Press, 2022).
In this children’s book, co-authored with Tish Harrison Warren and Katy Bowser Hutson, Rev. Oakes has created a children’s prayer book that turns everyday moments—waking, playing, eating, and bedtime—into small invitations to notice God’s presence. Its prayers are simple, warm, and reflective, making the book useful for both children and the adults reading with them. It encourages a habit of spiritual attentiveness in the middle of ordinary life.
En la escuela de los Salmos / At Psalms School (GIA Publications, Inc., 2019)
This bi-lingual, English-Spanish book for children ages 5-7, presents the Psalms as a place of spiritual formation, inviting readers to learn prayer, trust, lament, praise, and worship through Israel’s songbook. It emphasizes that the Psalms speak to the full range of human experience and help shape a faithful response to God in both joy and distress. The book treats the Psalms as a school for living with God rather than just a collection of ancient poems.
The Right Reverend Bishop Joshua Lickter:
This book features a compilation of essays, edited by Gregory Thornbury and Ned Bustard, including an essay on the topic of evil by contributing author Bishop Joshua Lickter. It explores how the long-running Sci-Fi series Doctor Who delves into Christian themes like God, baptism, time, transformation, evil, prayer, faith, suffering, and scripture. The essays use specific episodes and the Doctor’s character to reflect on how stories can illuminate Christian thought and moral imagination
The Reverend Doctor Matt Pandel:
Living in the In Between (Developing the Character that Unveils Destiny). (Kindle, 2023).
Dr. Pandel focuses on faith, trust, obedience, community, and healing while exploring what it means to live through seasons of transition. He argues that character formation in uncertain “in-between” spaces prepares people to step into purpose and destiny. He presents the in-between season not as wasted time but as a formative process where spiritual maturity and calling can be developed.
Dr. Pandel reflects on church hurt, abuse, and the need for honest healing inside Christian communities. He argues that the church must move beyond damage and division by embracing vulnerability, safe community, and a clearer understanding of trust, honor, and responsibility. Overall, the book calls for a redeemed and re-formed church that becomes a healthier witness to God’s love.
Fractured Witness: Study Guide. (The Writer’s Society, 2025).
A companion resource to Fractured Witness that helps readers reflect on church hurt, healing, and healthier Christian community through discussion and application.
The Reverend Doctor Nicole Foster:
The Hippie Theologian: Finding Religious Meaning on Social Media (Kindle, 2022)
In this engaging book, Reverend Foster explores how faith can be expressed, questioned, and shared in digital spaces without losing depth or integrity. It presents social media as a place where people can search for meaning, build community, and engage theology in everyday life. She encourages using online platforms thoughtfully so they can support spiritual growth rather than shallow performance.
The Reverend Canon Tim Clayton:
The Lord’s Prayer is Manifesto: The Three Dimensions of Jesus Sacred Revolution (Orbis, 2026)
This book presents the Lord’s Prayer as more than just a devotion, but as a revolutionary vision that ties prayer to justice, transformation, and communal life. The book argues that Jesus’ words challenge personal habits, relationships, and unjust social structures. In short, it treats the Lord’s Prayer as a manifesto for living under God’s reign in a way that reshapes both inner life and the world.
A reflective spiritual journey that uses Donne’s sacred writings to move from the empty tomb of Easter into the wider mystery of resurrection, daily life, and eternity. It draws on Donne’s sermons and poems to show how Easter shapes Christian hope, suffering, and embodied faith. It reads Donne as a guide for meditating on Christ’s resurrection as the beginning of an everlasting life with God.
Christmas With John Donne (Trinity Books, 2022)
This book reads Donne’s sermons and poetry as a season-long meditation that connects the Incarnation to the cross and to lived devotion. It highlights Donne’s vivid metaphors and theological depth, showing how the Nativity provokes wonder, penitence, and renewed resolve to live sacrificially. It presents Donne as a guide for worship and reflection at Christmas, inviting readers to move from awe at the manger toward faithful, embodied discipleship.
A pocket-sized Lenten guide that uses Donne’s poetry, prayers, meditations, and sermons to lead readers toward the cross. It frames Lent as a season of repentance, mortality, and dependence on God, with Donne helping readers face suffering honestly while clinging to grace and hope. In three sentences, it presents the Lenten journey as a disciplined path of self-examination that ends in mercy, renewal, and the promise of resurrection life.
Trust Their Struggle by Arielle Bazulka is an essential guide for those helping today’s youth facing mental health challenges. Combining scientific evidence and practical strategies, the author offers a program that encourages adolescents to connect with peers, mentors, and themselves. With biblical wisdom woven throughout, she provides the tools and language for youth to understand and express their feelings. Written with authority and compassion, this book is a vital resource for anyone supporting young people through their mental health journey.
Rev. Mother Teresa Monica Cross
The Truth About Druids (Llewellyn Publications 2002)
The Truth About the Druids is much more than just a history. It also shows how the Earth-honoring tradition of the Druids is being revived all over the world. Now you can travel back to an ancient time in old Ireland before Patrick came to spread the religion of the Latin language. Find out just how you can use the time-honored beliefs on your spiritual path.
Filled with legends and lore, factual history, and myth, The Truth About the Druids will help you find new ways to enhance your spirituality, improve your relationship with the Earth, and build your link to the Divine.
Drawing on comparative mythology and linguistics, archaeological evidence, and etymology, Teresa Cross offers readers a comprehensive course in the history and development of the Celtic spiritual tradition and its lore, reconstructing the Druidic faith from the remnants that have survived and dedicated study of scholarly sources. She also reveals parallels with other Indo-European traditions, such as the similarities between Celtic and Vedic Hindu beliefs and practices. She chronicles the ethics and spiritual teachings of Druidism and the Celtic faith and examines what happened to these beliefs during centuries of Christianization.