The Pastor's Bookshelf

Preaching Magazine   Book of the Year (2022) Hearts & Minds  Best Books List (2022) Christianity Today  Award of Merit in Church & Pastoral Leadership (2023) It's time to give pastors permission to read books besides the Bible.   Six months into his first senior pastorate, Austin Carty sat in his office reading—not the Bible, not a commentary, not a theological tract, but a novel   by Fyodor Dostoevsky. As the minutes turned to hours, while he sat engrossed in th