Resources

Pick up a book or check out a podast.

Top Recommendations:

- How to Know a Person by David Brooks

- How We Love by Milan & Kay Yerkovich

- Made to Belong by David Kim

- The Connected Life by Todd W. Hall

Additional Recommendations:

- Alone Together by Sherry Turkle

- The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt

- The Anxious Generation by Debbie Robert (A youth-friendly option)

- Bold Love by Dan Allender and Tremper Longman

- Closer: 52 Devotions to draw couples together by Jim and Cathy Burns

- The Emotional Intelligence of Jesus: Relational Smarts for Religious Leaders by Roy M. Oswald and Arland Jacobson

- Emotionally Healthy Spirituality by Peter Scazzero

- Follow Me by David Platt

- How to Solve the People Puzzle: Understanding Personality Patterns by Mels Carbonell, Ph.D.

- It's Not Too Late: The essential part you play in shaping your teen's faith by Dan Dupee

- The Noticer by Andy Andrews

- The Other Half of Church by Jim Wilder and Michael Hendricks

- The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry by John Mark Comer

- Safe House by Joshua Straub, PhD

- Shepherding a Child's Heart by Tedd Tripp

- The Soul of Desire by Curt Thompson

- The Space Between: A parent's guide to teenage development by Dr. Walt Mueller

- Try Softer by Aundi Kolber

- Why Don't We Listen Better? Communicating and Connecting in Relationships by James C. Petersen, D. Min. L.P.C.

Podcasts:

- Bridgetown Church podcast on community

- Connected, but alone? TED Talk by Sherry Turkle (above book: Alone Together)

- Curt Thompson podcast, Being Known

- Gravity Commons podcast

- James Emery White, On Self Care, Church & Culture

- The Pour Over podcast