I owe a debt of gratitude to Philip Yancy for inspring me to dig in and read.  I’d highly recommend his books:  What’s So Amazing About Grace, Soul Survivour, Rumours, Reaching For the Invisible God, The Jesus I Never Knew, and Disappointment With God. 

Check out these also:

Erwin Mcmanus, An Unstopable Force, Seizing Your Divine Moment, The Barbarian Way and Uprising 

Rob Bell’s, Velvet Elvis

Donald Miller’s, Blue Like Jazz

Dave Bruechett’s, When Bad Christian’s Happen to Good People

Brian Mclaren’s, Generous Orthodoxy and the,

A New Kind of Christian Trilogy and The Secret Message of Jesus

Lauren Winner’s, Girl Meets God 

Anne Lamott’s, Traveling Mercies, and Plan B

Chaim Potok’s, My Name is Asher Lev

Frederick Buechner’s, Telling Secrets

N.T. Wright’s, Simply Christian