Reprinted by permission of Faithworks Magazine.
If your reading habits need some rehab, you can take on two books a month and cover some of the best from Christian writers old and new. Try this eclectic but meaty 12-month reading plan:
January
C.S. Lewis, "Mere Christianity "
C.S. Lewis, "The Screwtape Letters "
February
Augustine, "Confessions "
John Dillenberger, editor, ""Martin Luther: Selections from his Writings "
March
Ron Sider, "Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger "
Dallas Willard, "The Divine Conspiracy "
April
Martin Luther King, Jr., "Strength to Love "
Marva Dawn, "Sexual Character "
May
Richard Foster, "Celebration of Discipline "
John Calvin, "Institutes of the Christian Religion "
June
Frank Whaling, ed. "John and Charles Wesley, Selected Writings "
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, "The Cost of Discipleship "
July
Christine Pohl, "Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition "
Stanley Hauerwas, "Resident Aliens "
August
Reinhold Niebuhr, "Moral Man and Immoral Society "
Frederica Mathewes-Green, "At the Corner of East and Now "
September
J.I. Packer, "Knowing God "
John Paul II, "The Gospel of Life"
October
Stanley Grenz, "The Moral Quest "
Philip Yancey, "The Jesus I Never Knew "
November
Howard Thurman, "Jesus and the Disinherited "
John Howard Yoder, "The Politics of Jesus "
December
Harry Blamires, "The Christian Mind "
Jon Sobrino, "Spirituality of Liberation "