We asked these associate pastors, "What book is lying on your nightstand?"

Kristen Burkhart
Asbury (Greeneville) UMC
Morristown District
The North Face of God: Hope for the Times When God Seems Indifferent, by Ken Gire

David Hall
Christ UMC
Chattanooga District
Working the Angles: The Shape of Pastoral Integrity,
by Eugene H. Peterson

Scott Layer
First Morristown UMC
Morristown District
unChristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks about Christianity ... and Why It Matters,
by David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons

Sarah Moody
Church Street UMC
Knoxville District
God's Companions: Reimagining Christian Ethics,
by Samuel Wells