Influences

Metanoia is the greek word for “to change one’s mind.”

Below are a number of my personal favorite books including and beyond the ones I share in the video above.  Each one has helped me “to change my mind” about many a topic in life.

Read them at your own caution.  They will disrupt your life in the best way possible.

Spirituality

• No Man is an Island and New Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton
• The Wounded Healer by Henri Nouwen
• Silence by Shusaku Endo
• The Enneagram and Falling Upward by Fr. Richard Rohr
• Wisdom Jesus by Cynthia Bourgeault
• The Showings by Julian of Norwich
• The Writings of St. Francis
• The Dark Night of the Soul by St. John of the Cross
• Interior Castle by St. Teresa of Avila
• The Spiritual Disciplines by St. Ignatius of Loyola
• Purity of Heart and Works of Love by Soren Kierkegaard
• The Confessions by St. Augustine

Theology/Philosophy

• Church Dogmatics by Karl Barth
• I and Thou by Martin Buber
• The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• The Soul’s Journey into God by St. Bonaventure
• The Divine Milieu and The Phenomenon of Man by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
• Orthodoxy by GK Chesterton
• The Unbearable Wholeness of Being by Ilia Delio
• Any book by Abraham Joshua Heschel
• Evangelical, Ecumenical and Reformed by George Hunsinger
• Incarnation and Atonement by TF Torrance

Psychology

• Why Did I Do That? by Joseph Burgo
• Spiral Dynamics by Beck and Cowen
• Spiral Dynamics in Action edited by Don Beck
• A Failure of Nerve by Edwin Friedmann
• Emotionally Healthy Spirituality by Pete Scazzero
• People of the Lie by Scott Peck
• Beyond Codependency by Melody Beattie