On Sept. 11-12, 110 people came to First Broad Street UMC in Kingsport to discuss Abolishing Poverty in Appalachia. We pulled seven of them aside to ask, "What book is lying on your nightstand?" (Story will appear soon in The Call2.)

Rev. Sally Allocca
East Lake UMC
Birmingham, Ala.
Alabama Conference
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, by Michael Pollan

Adam Dickson
Second Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Tennessee
Gray, Tenn.
American Sphinx:The Character of Thomas Jefferson,
by Joseph J. Ellis

Rev. Reese Fauscett
Trenton UMC
Trenton, Ga.
Holston Conference
Bass Pro Shops catalog

Rev. Randy Harlow
Marsh Memorial UMC
Lynchburg, Va.
Virginia Conference
Lynchburg News & Advance

Rev. Clark Jenkins
First Broad Street UMC
Kingsport, Tenn.
Holston Conference
The Gospel According to Starbucks:
Living With a Grand Passion, by Leonard Sweet

Rev. Don Jones
Valley Forge UMC
Elizabethton, Tenn.
Holston Conference
Simple Living New Testament with Psalms

Bishop Hope Morgan Ward
Mississippi Annual Conference
Jackson, Miss.
An Elegy for Easterly, by Petina Gappah