Books

This page will include book recommendations and reviews. If you have book you would like to recommend to other women please e-mail Kelly Harris at kelly.harris@dwtx.org

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Vocation:

• Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation by Parker Palmer. A compassionate and compelling meditation on discovering your path in life. 
• Crossing the Jordan: Meditations on Vocation by Sam Portaro. Using Jesus' own vocation discernment. Portaro invites us into conversation with Jesus to explore who we are and how we live our lives in relationship to others and to the world in which we live 
• Forgetting Ourselves on Purpose: Vocation and the Ethics of Ambition by Brian J. Mahan. Mahan explores questions of how it is possible to create a meaningful spiritual life while living in a world that measures us by what we have rather than who we are. 
• The Other Six Days: Vocation, Work, and Ministry in Biblical Perspective by R. Paul Stevens. A thought provoking book. Using Scripture, Stevens shows that "calling" is first and most importantly to someone before it is to do something.   

Transformation & Discernment:

• The Cathedral Within: Transforming Your Life by Giving Something Back by Bill Shore. A wise and inspiring book about how to make the most of life and do something that counts. 
• Hearing with Heart: A Gentle Guide for Discerning God's Will for your Life by Debra Farrington  
• The Congruent Life: Following the Inward Path to Fulfilling Work and Inspired Leadership by Michael Thompson  

Careers & Work:

• What Color Is Your Parachute?: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career Changers by Richard Nelson Bolles  
• Work Yourself Happy: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Joy in Your Life and Work by Rerri Levine. Also available as an e-book.  
• Do What You Are: Discover the Perfect Career for You through the Secrets of Personality Type by Paul D. Tieger, Barbara Barron-Tieger, Deborah Baker (Editor). Also available as an e-book.

• Link to Oprah's Book club
• Link to The Anglican Book Club