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In response to my colleague Mike's Emerging Scholars Network Blog Post What Will You Be Reading This Summer?, I compiled the below list and placed it in the comments section. But out of curiosity, What Will You Be Reading This Summer?

Hard to pull together a full list of summer reads, so here's a few. Please remind me if I've mentioned one earlier and didn't include it here :) After I organize my office library in order to host friends over the course of the next several weeks, maybe I'll have to do a second post anyway. Note to Mike: let's be sure to do a follow-up "What did you read over the summer?"

New releases
Philip W. Eaton's "Engaging the Culture, Changing the World: The Christian University in a Post-Christian World" (InterVarsity Press. 2011). ESN blog post coming. Anyone interested in an on-line book discussion on this title? Check out Eaton's book lists at http://blog.spu.edu/eaton/bookshelf/ :)

John Dickson's "Humilitas: A Lost Key to Life, Love and Leadership" (Zondervan. June 2011). ESN blog post coming. Anyone interested in an on-line book discussion on "Humilitas"? It will be humbling ;)

Debby Read's "Prescription for the Doctor's Wife: Hope and Help for Your Unique Marriage" (Dawson Media. 2011) -- For my work with PSU-Hershey Medical Center Christian Medical Society/CMDA. I'm sure I'll loan it out as soon as I'm finished (if not before).

Books I've "dwelled in"
Craig Atwood's "Community of the Cross: Moravian Piety in Colonial Bethlehem." Pennsylvania State University Press. 2004.

Keri Wyatt Kent's "Rest: Living in Sabbath Simplicity" (Zondervan. 2009) -- My wife Theresa and I are leading a Sunday school class on this book over the summer. Notes posted at http://groshlink.net/category/reflections_on_drawing_closer_to_christ.

Daily readings
"Ancient Christian Devotional: A Year of Weekly Readings." Edited by Cindy Crosby, General Editor Thomas C. Oden. InterVarsity Press. 2007.

"The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C.S. Lewis." Harcourt. 1984.

Eugene Peterson's "My First Message: A Devotional Bible for Kids" (NavPress,2007) -- Morning devotions with my younger children.

J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit: or There and Back Again." -- a reading with one of my 11 year old twin daughters. We just finished Calvin Miller's "The Singer Trilogy" (InterVarsity Press. 1992). Provoked the curious mind :)

Other
J. Mark Bertrand’s "Back on Murder" -- Hannah's recommendation

"Vision for God: The Story of Dr. Margaret Brand" (Dr. Margaret E. Brand with Dr. James L. Jost. Discovery House Books. 2006) in preparation for a fall Sunday School class based upon some combination of material the series by Paul Brand and Philip Yancey, http://www.zondervan.com/Cultures/en-US/Authors/Author.htm?ContributorID=BrandP. Powerful stories about medical ministry among those with leprosy in India.

Chip Heath and Dan Heath's "Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard" (Crown Business. 2010) -- Dwight's recommendation. Maybe I'll even read their "Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die" (Random House. 2007).

Stuart Murray's "Planting Churches in the 21st Century: A Guide for Those Who Want Fresh Perspectives and New Ideas for Creating Congregations" (Herald Press. 2010) to write a "Brethren in Christ History and Life" book review. If you have thoughts on church planting please forward them my direction. Note: recently heard Murray speak at Elizabethtown College.

Children's books and devotional materials: lots of them with our four girls :)