Mike Lowenberg, Aaron Holmes, Joe Kumor and Brian Roberts acted as the umbrella crew on Sunday, running out umbrellas to people as they pulled into the parking lot. It's been raining for about 5 straight days and Kansas City is flooding.
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2020 Reading List
- Rage Against the Minivan: Learning to Parent Without Perfection
- A Different Mirror for Young People: A History of Multicultural America
- The Wind Through the Keyhole
- Song of Susannah
- The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
- The Pioneers [the Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West]
- The New Confessions of An Economic Hit Man
- Divorce Care: Hope, Help, and Healing During and After Your Divorce
- Gulag: A History
- Escape from Paris: A True Story of Love and Resistance in Wartime France
- Confessions of an Economic Hitman
- Paris on Air
- A Short History of Reconstruction
- American Dialogue: The Founders and Us
- Atomised
- Season of Saturdays: A History of College Football in 14 Games
- How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
- No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
- The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind
- Paris: The Secret History
- Contemporary France: A Democratic Education
- The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
- Quiet Days in Clichy
- Paris at the End of the World: The City of Light During the Great War, 1914-1918
- When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944
- The History of Rome
- The Simple Path to Wealth: Your Road Map to Financial Independence and a Rich, Free Life
- Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
- There's a God in my Closet
- Hubris: The Tragedy of War in the Twentieth Century
- Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
- Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
- To Lose a Battle: France 1940
- The Other Paris: The People's City, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
- Nietzsche: A Very Short Introduction
- Paris, Paris: Journey into the City of Light
- 13 Things Mentally Strong Parents Don't Do
- Tough Stuff Parenting
Reading Lists
Books Completed in 2019
- The Hate You Give
- La France contemporaine
- Phèdre
- 100 poems classiques et contemporains
- La Parure et autres nouvelles
- L'Alouette
- Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed
- Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America
- Paris in Stride
- A la recherche d'un emploi: Business French in a Communicative Context
- Exceptional Lives: Special Education in Today's Schools
- Psychology Applied to Teaching
- White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
- Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
- A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962
- Five Nights in Paris: After Dark in the City of Light
- Montmartre: Paris's Village of Art and Sin
- The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris
- Saint-Germain-des-Pres: Paris's Rebel Quarter
- The Understanding by Design Guide to Creating High-Quality Units
- Psychology Applied to Teaching
- The Streets of Paris: A Guide to the City of Light Following in the Footsteps of Famous Parisians Throughout History
- The Bonjour Effect: The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed
- How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City
- La Belle France: A Short History
- The Terrible Year: The Paris Commune, 1871
- Between Noon and Three: Romance, Law, and the Outrage of Grace
- The Price of Glory: Verdun, 1916
- The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla
- Seven Ages of Paris
- The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
- The Big History of Civilizations
- How the West Won
- The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass
- The History of White People
Books Completed in 2018
- The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands
- Rick Steve's Paris 2019
- One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying our Democracy
- Teacher's Handbook: Contextualized Language Instruction
- Successful Classroom Management
- Paris: A Love Story
- A Year in Provence
- Just After Sunset
- The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
- All This Life
- Affirming Diversity
- The Zimzum of Love: A New Way of Understanding Marriage
- White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of our Racial Divide
- Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich
- The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings
- Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought England Back from the Brink
- Good Christian Sex: Why Chastity Isn't the Only Option-And Other Things the Bible Says About Sex
- How Democracy Dies
- Getting to I Do: The Secret of Doing Relationships Right
- In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
- You are a Badass
- Party of One: Truth, Longing, and the Subtle Art of Singleness
- The Things They Carried
- The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of the Lord of the Rings
- Single but Dating: A Field Guide to Dating in the Digital Age
- Iron John
- The Wounded Healer
- Next to the Last Vein
Books Completed in 2017
- Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
- Paris: The Secret History
- Four Things Women Want from a Man
- The Crucifixion of the Warrior God: Volume I
- The 25 Habits of Highly Successful Salespeople
- Mating in Captivity
- The Miracle Morning
- The Road
- War Dogs
- The Norman Conquest
- A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britian
- Eisenhower: A Life
- 1924: The Year that made Hitler
- The Quran in Context
- The Skeletons in God's Closet
- A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict
- One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Created Christian America
Books Completed in 2016
- Figthing Back the Right: Reclaiming American from the Attack on Reason
- L'Amant
- La Jalousie
- L'Etranger
- Common Nonsense: Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance
- 21 Things I Wish My Broker Had Told Me
- The 7 Levels of Communication
- Un Coeur Simple
- American Presidents
- Rene et Atala
- Paris to the Moon
- Generous Justice
- We Too Sing America
- Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
- The Pity of War: Explaining WWI
- Seven Ages of Paris
- That Summer in Paris: Memories of Tangled Friendships with Hemmingway, Fitzgerland and Some Others
- The King of Kings County
- Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945
- The Book of Aron
- How to Travel the World on $50 a Day
- Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't be Wrong: Why we Love France but Hate the French
- The Guns of August
- Fates and Furies
- Sacred Cows: The Truth about Divorce and Marriage
- Home School Sex Machine
- Dark Places
- Abroad
- The New Demons
- The Political Illusion
- Gone Girl
- A Long Walk to Water
- All the Light We Cannot See
- The Girl on the Train
- The Paris Wife
- Stationary Bike
- Full Dark No Stars
- The Sun Also Rises
- Lisey's Story
- The Silent Wife
Books Completed in 2015
- No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the war through Afghan Eyes
- Hold Me Tight
- Afghanistan Declassified
- Sold
- Anna Karenina
- The King of Sports: Why Football Must be Reformed
- Night
- Water Buffalo Theology
- Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World
- A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914-1918
- Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
- A Moveable Feast
- The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives
- The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
- Don't Know Much about the Bible
- Rings, Swords and Monsters
- To End All Wars
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- A Separate Peace
- Renovating Holiness
- The Way We Work: How Faith Makes a Difference on the Job
- Scripture and the Authority of God: How to Read the Bible Today
- A Farewell to Mars: An Evangelical Pastor's Journey Toward the Biblical Gospel of Peace
- Simple Obsession
- UnLeader: Reimagining Leadership and Why We Must
- Humans of New York
- Touching Home: The Story of the Kansas City Royal's Dream Season and Run to the World Series
- A People's History of the French Revolution
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
- What Would you Do?
- Christian Attitudes Toward War and Peace
- The Hobbit
- Blueprint for Armageddon
- The Rise of Christianity
- American Peril
- Charitable Discourse: Talking about the Things That Divide Us
Books Completed in 2014
- Christian Anarchism: A Political Commentary on the Gospel
- Third Way Allegiance: Christian Witness in the Shadow of Religious Empire
- Fighting for Peace: Your Role in a Culture too Comfortable with Violence
- A History of Europe
- Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud
- More Coffee Shop Theology
- Coffee Shop Theology
- Mere Christianity
- Rick Steves Switzerland
- Rick Steves Italy
- Rick Steves Germany
- Rick Steves France
- Radical Compassion: Finding Christ in the Heart of the Poor
- Across the Spectrum: Understanding Issues in Evangelical Theology
- For Men Only
- Repenting of Religion: Turning from Judgment to the Love of God
- Christ and Violence
- The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
- The Arabs: A Short History
- When War is Unjust: Being Honest in Just War Thinking
- Allah: A Christian Response
- Le Petit Prince
- A Passion for the Heart of God
- On the Way
- ReJesus: A Wild Messiah for a Missional Church
- Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
- Colossians Remixed
- Elmer Gantry
- Metronome: A History of Paris from the Underground Up
Books Completed in 2013
- A Year of Living Biblically
- Performing the Faith: Bonhoeffer and the Practice of Nonviolence
- Cross Cultural Servanthood
- The Return of the Prodigal Son
- French or Foe
- The Hidden Gardens of Paris
- American Creation
- Contemporary France
- The Old Regime and the French Revolution
- Adams vs. Jefferson
- Don't Know Much about American History
- Oscar et la Dame Rose
- Battle Cry of Freedom
- Manna: The Call to Daily Dependence on God
- Transforming Violence
- Thin Places
- Battle Cry of Freedom
- The Old Regime and the French Revolution
- Contemporary France
- Performing the Faith: Bonhoeffer and the Practice of Nonviolence
Books Completed in 2012
- The Story of God, The Story of Us: Getting Lost and Found in the Bible
- Everyday Justice
- Paris, I love you but You're Bringing Me Down
- Missional Moves
- The Hunger Games
- Reborn on the Fourth of July: The Challenge of Faith, Patriotism and Conscience
- Building a Discipleship Culture
- 1491: New Revelations on the Americas Before Columbus
- The War of the Lamb
- Getting Together
- Backwards: Created to Live Sent
- Prayers that Prevail for your Children
- Covenant and Kingdom
- Stuff Parisians Like
- The Hunger Games
- Farenheit 451
- The King Jesus Gospel
- The Tangible Kingdom
- Les Miserables
- The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe
- The Tangible Kingdom Primer
- When Presidents Lie
- Introducing the Missional Church
- The Myth of a Christian Nation
- 33 Questions About American History You're Not Supposed to Ask
- How God Became King
- Guns, Germs and Steel
- Enigma: The Battle for the Code
- Present Perfect: Finding God in the Now
- While America Sleeps
- Simply Jesus
- Ruthless Trust
- The Cross Shattered Christ
- Missional Small Groups
- The Blue Parakeet
- American Fascists
- What Every Person Should Know about WAr
- A Renegade History of the United States
- Blink
- Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of America
- Seven Deadly Sins: The Uncomfortable Truth
- The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
- 1776
- Questions to your Answers
- Missional Small Groups
- The Circle Maker: Praying Circles around Your Biggest Dreams and Greatest Fears
- Tears of a Clown: Glenn Beck and the Tea Bagging of America
- Violence
- The Old Testament Roots of Nonviolence
- Bringing Up Boys
Books Completed in 2011
- Radical Peace: People Refusing War
- Loving Our Kids on Purpose
- War and Peace
- There is No Time
- War Crimes and the American Conscience
- A Social History of the French Revolution
- Winston's War
- A Stranger to Myself
- The Old Man and the Sea
- Retribution: The Battle for Japan 1944-1945
- 1848: Year of Revolutions
- World Atlas of the Past: Volumes I-IV
- Teaching as Leadership: The Highly Effective Teacher's Guide to Closing the Achievement Gap
- Classroom Management and Culture
- Instructional Planning and Delivery
- Diversity, Community and Achievement
- The Power of Nonviolence
- Is God to Blame?
- Race, Real Estate and Uneven Development in Kansas City
- Grammaire Francaise
- Facile a Dire
- D'Accord
- Love Wins
- Travelling Mercies
- A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
- The Politics of Jesus
- Follow Me to Freedom
- Radical
- Generous Justice
Books Completed in 2010
- A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies
- Three Cups of Tea
- Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
- Rethinking the Good War
- The Gutter
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- A Votre Tour
- Crazy Love
- Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child
- The Powers that Be
- Engaging the Powers
- Jesus and Nonviolence: A Third Way
- Savage Inequalities
- So You Don't Want to go to Church Anymore?
- Practicing Greatness
- Missional Renaissance
- Jesus Wants to Save Christians
- English Grammar for Students of French
- Horizons
- The Irrestible Revolution
- A Resilient Life
- Surprised by Hope
- The Divine Hours: Prayers for Springtime
- When You Run Out Of Fantastic, Persevere
- Scars and Stilettos
- The Prodigal God
- A Holy Passion
- A Holy Calling
- Emotionally Healthy Spirituality
- Wild at Heart
- The 5,000 Year Leap
- A People's History of the United States; 1492-Present
Books Completed in 2009
- When the Game is Over, it all Goes Back in the Box
- Emotionally Healthy Spirituality
- UnChristian
- Pagan Christianity
- The Kingdom Experiment
- The Dip
- Choosing Against War
- The Reason for God
- The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
- Jesus for President
- The Emotionally Healthy Church
- The Myth of a Christian Religion
- In the Name of Jesus
- Practicing His Presence
- Communicating for a Change
- Babywise
- Intuitive Leadership
- Choosing to Cheat
- No Perfect People Allowed
- Cross Cultural Servanthood
- Making Vision Stick
- Open Adoption: My Story of Love and Laughter
- Don't Waste Your Life
Books Completed in 2008
- Celebrating Adoption
- Emperors of Rome
- The Three Signs of a Miserable Job
- So You Don't Want to go to Church Anymore?
- Lies Teacher Told Me
- Confessions of a Pastor
- In the Name of Jesus
- A Resilient Life
- Contemplative Prayer
- God's Politics: Why the Left gets it wrong and the Right doesn't get it
- An Illustrated History of the First World War
- The Brothers Karamazov
- Simple Church
- Simply Christian
- The Shack
- Velvet Elvis
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