Book Review – Mental Health and the Church
Len's Star Rating: 6 out of 10. A book that focuses on reducing mental health stigma in the church and improving church worship environments, primarily for families of children with special needs.
Book Review – I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die
Len's Star Rating: 4 out of 10. A first-person account of experiencing and overcoming depression and suicidality as a Christian.
Book Review – The Gift of Empathy
Len's Star Rating: 7 out of 10. A helpful book on developing empathy skills and considering opportunities to express empathy to others.
Book Review – Gunfight
Len's Star Rating: 8 out of 10. A book that is both a memoir and an exposé on the gun industry in America.
Book Review – Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream
Len's Star Rating: 9 out of 10. A challenging and convicting book on Christian faith and living a life of servanthood and sacrifice, which is counter to mainstream American church culture.
Book Review – The Best 5 Books for Christians with Depression
The best 5 books on depression for Christians.
Book Review – A New Kind of Christian
Len's Star Rating: 6 out of 10. A work of fiction about two friends who are growing their faith in Jesus beyond mainstream beliefs and practices.
Book Review – There Is No Box
Len's Star Rating: 7 out of 10. A book that explains how to develop a flexible, relatable approach to leading others and shaping your identity as a leader.
Book Review – Searching for Sunday
Len's Star Rating: 8 out of 10. An engaging and challenging book that is both memoir and catharsis of the author’s struggle to find connection and meaning with other Christians and the Church.
Book Review – Precision Psychiatry
Len's Star Rating: 10 out of 10. A visionary book on the future of understanding and treating mental disorders through the lens of measurement-based, personalized psychiatric care.
Book Review – Boundaries for Your Soul
Len's Star Rating: 9 out of 10. A helpful book on accepting and managing difficult emotions, thoughts, and memories by using a Christian-oriented application of Internal Family Systems (IFS) approaches and interpersonal boundary setting.
Book Review – Games People Play
Len's Star Rating: 3 out of 10. A book on transactional analysis that is most useful as a historical reference.
Book Review – The Self-Healing Mind
Len's Star Rating: 7 out of 10. An encouraging book that primarily addresses complementary, natural strategies for improving mental health and depressive symptoms.
Book Review – Science over Stigma
Len's Star Rating: 9 out of 10. An excellent resource based on facts, logic, and scientific findings for mental health clinicians and advocates in combating misinformation and educating the public to reduce harmful mental health stigma.
Book Review – Educated
Len's Star Rating: 10 out of 10. A collection of life stories and memories of a young woman in her experiences of the transformational power of education, friendships, and choosing self to escape the entrapments of poverty, isolation, and a dysfunctional, abusive family system.
Book Review – Poor Charlie’s Almanack
Len's Star Rating: 7 out of 10. A collection of quotes and speeches by Charles Munger with some additional, limited background on his life and investment style.
Book Review – Antifragile
Len's Star Rating: 5 out of 10. A book that expands upon concepts found in Dr. Nassim Taleb’s previous books Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan.
Book Review – The Bed of Procrustes
Len's Star Rating: 8 out of 10. A collection of pearls of wisdom and philosophical musings by Dr. Nassim Taleb.
Book Review – The Black Swan
Len's Star Rating: 10 out of 10. A superb book that looks at rare, unexpected risks and rewards in the economy and life from an accurate, countercultural perspective.
Book Review – Out of the Cave
Len's Star Rating: 8 out of 10. A book on depression from a Christian perspective that effectively addresses mental health stigma and covers a wide range of ideas and natural strategies for addressing depression.