The opinions and perspectives expressed in Lynne’s blogs, articles and advocacy roles flow from her personal convictions. They may or may not represent the official positions held by Willow Creek Community Church or the Willow Creek Association. Lynne conducts her work with independent funding raised expressly for these purposes.
Centering Prayer in Daily Life and Ministry, Edited by Gustave Reininger
A Christianity Worth Believing, Doug Pagitt
The Divine Conspiracy, Dallas Willard
Dancing to the Heartbeat of Redemption, Joy Sawyer
New and Selected Poems, Mary Oliver
Half the Sky, Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
The House of Belonging, David Whyte
Enough: Why the World’s Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty, Roger Thurow & Scott Kilman
The Wisdom of the Enneagram, Don Riso and Russ Hudson
New books waiting to be read:
A Tale of Love and Darkness, Amos Oz
Mandate to Difference, Walter Brueggemann
The Wretched of the Earth, Franz Fanon
The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew—Three Women Search for Understanding, Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, Priscilla Warner
Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen
Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Sabbath, Abraham Joshua Heschel
Jesus’ Plan for a New World: The Sermon on the Mount, Richard Rohr
Finding Beauty in a Broken world, Terry Tempest Williams
Social Justice Handbook, Mae Cannon
Favorite Books on Writing
Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott
Writing Down the Bones, Natalie Goldberg
Creative Nonfiction, Philip Gerard
Favorite Gift Books I’ve Received:
The Other Side of War: Women’s Stories of Survival & Hope, Zainab Salbi
Women of Words: A Personal Introduction to Thirty-five Important Writers, Janet Bukovinsky Teacher
Women Empowered, Inspiring Change in the Emerging World, Phil Borges
What Matters: The World’s Preeminent Photojournalists and Thinkers Depict Essential
Issues of our Time, David Elliot Cohen
Women Who Light the Dark, Paola Gianturco
About Me
For the last fifteen years Lynne has been engaged with ministry partnerships in under-resourced communities in Latin America and Africa. More recently she has been involved in Willow Creek’s Spanish-speaking congregation, Casa de Luz, and actively supports Comprehensive Immigration Reform.
In 2010 Lynne established a personal fundraising initiative, Ten For Congo, to support the thousands of women and girls brutally raped during the last decade of civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In her personal ministry, she has also traveled extensively in the Middle East and actively advocates for peace with justice in the Holy Land.