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Studies in Pride, Lessons in Humility
By LeRoy Lawson X Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen, and Roger Fischer New York: Penguin Books, 1999 You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have...
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Power, Forgiveness, and Suffering
By LeRoy Lawson My Beloved World Sonia Sotomayor New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013 Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela Nelson Mandela New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1994, 1995...
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Seeking Discipline and Considering the Captives
By LeRoy Lawson Flunking Sainthood: A Year of Breaking the Sabbath, Forgetting to Pray, and Still Loving My Neighbor Jana Riess Brewster: Paraclete Press, 2011 Zoo Story: Life in the Garden of...
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New Ways to Research, Serve, Lead, and Counsel
By LeRoy Lawson The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World’s Greatest Encyclopedia Andrew Lih New York: Hyperion, 2009 Unfinished: Believing Is Only the Beginning Richard...
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Good Friday, Sexual Identity, and the Fruit of the Spirit
By LeRoy Lawson City of Wrong: A Friday in Jerusalem M. Kamel Hussein (translated by Kenneth Cragg) Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 1995 (first published in 1954) The End of Sexual Identity: Why Sex...
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A Statesman, a Theologian, and a Preacher
By LeRoy Lawson A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America Stacy Schiff New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2005 Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual...
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Be More
LeRoy Lawson By LeRoy Lawson (From our series “The Best or Worst Advice I’ve Ever Received.”) The best advice I ever received? An almost impossible question! When you’ve lived as long as I have, and...
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Memoir of an Atheist, Biography of a Genius, Advice for Travelers
By LeRoy Lawson Joseph Anton: A Memoir Salman Rushdie New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2013 Jim Henson: The Biography Brian Jay Jones New York: Ballantine Books, 2013 Foreign to Familiar: A...
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Practical Advice for Productive Ministry
By LeRoy Lawson From Midterms to Ministry: Practical Theologians on Pastoral Beginnings Allan Hugh Cole Jr., editor Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2008 Leadership Handbook of Management and...
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Despots, Presidents, and a Readable Grammarian
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China Jung Chang New York: Anchor Books (Doubleday); originally published by Simon and Schuster, 1991 The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the...
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A Bad Year, a True Hero, and an Invitation to Wonder
By LeRoy Lawson Diary of a Bad Year J. M. Coetzee London: Harvill Secker, 2007 The Ruby Ring: Tyndale’s Battle for an English Bible Karen Rees Crosslink Publishing, 2013 Unwrapping Wonder: Finding Hope...
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How Much More Can I Read about War?
By LeRoy Lawson A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Ishmael Beah New York: Macmillan, 2007 The Things They Carried Tim O’Brien New York: Mariner Books, 1990 The Right Stuff Tom Wolfe New York:...
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Life, Love, Liberty, Language
By LeRoy Lawson Four Steps to Spiritual Freedom Thomas Ryan Mahwah: Paulist Press, 2003 Younger Next Year: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy—Until You’re 80 and Beyond Chris Crowley and Henry S. Lodge, M.D....
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For Anyone Concerned about Poverty
By LeRoy Lawson Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa Dambisa Moyo New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009 Toxic Charity: How Churches and Charities Hurt Those...
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Assessing a Pope, Learning about Armenia, Reconsidering Depression
By LeRoy Lawson Pope John XXIII Thomas Cahill New York: Penguin Books, 2008 Armenia: A Journey Through History Arra S. Avakian Fresno: The Electric Press, 2008 The Armenian Genocide: Forgotten and...
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We Speak: Previewing the 2015 NACC
By Mike Baker 2015 NACC President God is a talker. In the beginning, he thundered the creatively explosive words, “Let there be light” (Genesis 1:3), and everything we know and see came into being. And...
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A Literary Conversation about Racial Prejudice
By LeRoy Lawson Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power Jon Meacham New York: Random House, 2012 Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America Gilbert King New...
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God’s Heart, God’s Servants, a Growing Church
By LeRoy Lawson Life on Mission: God’s People Finding God’s Heart for the World Tim Harlow Pastors.com, 2014 Timeless: Devotions Based on the Sermons of Floyd Strater Kim Hamilton Self published, 2014...
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Tragic Hero, Seven Great Men, and How to Reach the ‘Nones’
By LeRoy Lawson Washington Journal: Reporting Watergate and Richard Nixon’s Downfall Elizabeth Drew New York: Overlook Hardcover, 2014 Seven Men: And the Secret of Their Greatness Eric Metaxas...
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Struggling for Balance
By LeRoy Lawson Slow Church: Cultivating Community in the Patient Way of Jesus C. Christopher Smith and John Pattison Downers Grove: IVP Books, 2014 iGods: How Technology Shapes Our Spiritual and...
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