2023 Summer Reading List
This summer our counselors are taking part in discussion groups around the books listed below. Which of these might you like to add to your summer reading list?
Letters to a Young Therapist
by Mary Pipher
Pipher relays some of the wisdom she has gathered over her years as a clinical psychologist. She gives a helpful look into her model of therapy while inspiring compassion and optimism in her readers.
Man’s Search for Meaning
by Viktor Frankl
This well-known classic by Frankl—a psychoanalyst and Holocaust survivor—takes on the topics of suffering, meaning, and purpose. If you haven’t gotten to it yet, maybe it’s time to add it to your reading list.
The Practice of the Presence of God
by Brother Lawrence
Originally published in 1692, this collection of teachings by a Catholic friar reflects on truths and practices that tune readers into the presence of God among normal, everyday rhythms.
What’s So Amazing About Grace?
by Philip Yancey
Well-known writer Phillip Yancey looks at the life-changing power of grace and considers its practical implications—even for those people to whom it seems hardest to show.
The Question of God
by Armand Nicholi
This book positions two of the most prominent twentieth-century thinkers in a debate about God, love, sex, and life. Take on the problem of pain, belief, doubt, life, and faith with two revolutionary minds.