What We're Reading
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When we're not doing research or sacred listening, we're reading and learning! Check out some of our current reads that keeps us inspired and informed. 👇

Liturgies for Resisting Empire: Seeking Community, Belonging, and Peace in a Dehumanizing World invites readers to rethink how faith practices can resist systems of exploitation and oppression. Drawing on spiritual disciplines and community formation, Kat Armas offers hope and practical ways for Christians to live faithfully and cultivate belonging in a world shaped by “empire.”

What Gen Z Really Wants to Know About God: Seven Questions About Life and Faith by Tanita Tualla Maddox is a research-informed guide which helps ministry leaders understand Gen Z by centering the seven big questions teens and young adults are actually asking about God, faith, and life. The guide offers practical, compassionate ways to respond that build trust, deepen discipleship, and spark real conversation.

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin crafts sci-fi for thinkers and community builders, creating imagined worlds that reflect our best and worst selves and push us to ask what helps us flourish—or holds us back. In her most famous novel, an outsider ambassador seeks unity between divided societies on the planet Gethen, not to predict the future, but to explore a powerful “what if?”




