My goal for Monday posts about books and recommendations is simply to toss some titles out that have impacted me lately, and maybe let something hit your radar that you might not have considered before. {Affiliate links where appropriate.}

Every summer quite a lot of folks in our church read a biography together. Typically it's chosen by the pastoral staff and woven into a sermon or just discussed here and there as the opportunity arises. Because of mounting racial tensions in the United States and a desire to respond as Christ would, we read The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. this past summer.