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Best of 2011 Books
Our High Calling community enjoys reading and sharing the experience with others. This year we have featured books across diverse categories including business, poetry, and spiritual formation.
This list represents some of the most popular books we have touched on this year. You can see the others we have chosen on our book reviews and book club pages. You can also subscribe to our Daily Reflections and Weekly Calling messages to learn of new book reviews and stay encouraged about the high calling of your daily work.
Which book that you read this year spoke to you the most? Do you have suggestions for book reviews or book club selections for 2012? If so, leave us a message in the comments below.
Best of 2011 Books
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Video Interview with Guy Kawasaki, Author of Enchantment
by Cheryl Smith Cheryl talked with Guy Kawasaki about his latest book, Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds and Actions. Guy is a former Chief Evangelist for Apple, the founder of Alltop and a co-founder of Garage Technology Ventures. |
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Don’t Stress about Christmas: An interview with Mark D. Roberts
by Marcus Goodyear Mark Roberts is the author of our Daily Reflections here at The High Calling and the new ebook Discovering Advent from Patheos. We spoke with Mark about his ebook and staying focused during the mania of the Christmas season. |
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What the Earth Gives: Essays from The Spirit of Food
by Laura J. Boggess In the midst of plenty, we have forgotten how to eat, says Leslie Leyland Fields, the editor of The Spirit of Food: 34 Writers on Feasting and Fasting toward God. This reading leads me into a greater awareness of what I turn to for nourishment. |
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Investing My Talents, An Excerpt from The Unlikely Missionary
by Dan King “I’m not qualified for this.” That was the prevailing thought running through my mind as I settled into my room for the night in Thika, Kenya. I couldn’t be more excited to teach the next day, but somehow I couldn’t shake the feeling of being unworthy of teaching these beautiful people anything. |
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Mindful Aging, Or I Want to Be Helen When I Grow Up
by Laura J. Boggess “It’s kind of hard at age ninety,” she begins. “It’s kind of hard at ninety to ask God which way to go after losing your mate of sixty-five years.” She shuffles the papers she is holding and begins to read the essay she has prepared for us. “I could easily entitle these words ‘God’s Surprises’…” |
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Good Things Come to Those Who Sit
by Denise Frame Harlan “There’s a part of me that feels pinched in this life,” L.L.Barkat says in God in the Yard: Spiritual Practice for the Rest of Us. L.L. has been featured in Christianity Today’s “Who’s Next”. She is also the Managing Editor here at The High Calling. |
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Breath for the Bones
by Laura J. Boggess “God’s relationship with us surrounds us like a house,” says Luci Shaw.“It is essential, the frame and backdrop for all thinking, doing, being.” This book club selection seeks to answer two questions posed in the introduction: “How does faith inform art?” and “How can art animate faith?” |
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