Maggie Goodwin (she/her/hers) is a Minister of the Word and Sacrament (Teaching Elder) in the Presbyterian Church (USA) and currently serves as the Pastor of “Woven in Faith” a joint ministry of Whittier Presbyterian and Salem Lutheran Churches.

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Influential Books

As a pastor it would be remiss of me if I did not start with The Bible, though cliché. I particularly relish the time preparing to preach on a text and really digging into what the Holy Spirit is trying to say to the congregation I am preaching to.

That All Shall Be Saved by David Bentley Hart

Searching for Sunday by Rachel Held Evans

The Irresistible Revolution by Shane Claiborne

Jesus for President by Shane Claiborne and Chris Haw

The Christian Imagination by Willie Jennings

Pastrix by Nadia Bolz-Weber

The Insistence of God by John D Caputo

In the Shelter by Pádráig Ó Tuama

The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James Cone

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

Daddy, Daddy by Paul Durcan (Specifically the poem “The Death of the Ayatollah Khomeini”)

Mirrors of Destruction by Omer Bartov

The Magic Lantern by Timothy Garton Ash

Josephine Butler by Jane Jordan

The Orthodox Heretic by Peter Rollins