Special Collections

The Wesley Library is home to several special book and media collections.

The Dr. Nelle Slater Collection

The God I Never Knew	Marcus J. Borg	Beyond Dogmatic Religion to a More Authentic Contemporary Faith (1997)
American Dreams	H. W. Brands	The United States Since 1945 (2010)
Faithful Conversations	James M. Childs, Jr.	Christian Perspectives on Homosexuality (2003)
Psalms	Clifton Carr	2009
Minding the Light	Anne Dalke	Essays in Friendly Pedagogy (2004)
The Woman Behind the New Deal	Kirstin Downey	The Life and Legacy of Frances Perkins – Social Security, Unemployment Insurance, and the Minimum Wage (2009)
Who Are We?	Jean Bethke Elshtain	Critical Reflections and Hopeful Possibilities (200)
Time, Conflict, and Human Value	J. T. Fraser
Strength for the Journey	Peter J. Gomes	Biblical Wisdom for Daily Living: A New Collection of Sermons (2003)
Faithful Guides	Thomas R. Hawkins	Coaching Strategies for Church Leaders (2006)
Resurrecting Excellence	Gregory Jones	Shaping Faithful Christian Ministry (2006)
Global Rebellion	Mark Juergensmeye	Religious Challenges to the Secular State from Christian Militias to al Qaeda (2008)
The Order of Things	Barbara Ann Kipfer	How Everything in the World is Organized in Hierarchies, Structures, and Pecking Orders (2001)
Remedial Christianity	Paul Alan Laughlin	What Every Believer Should Know About the Faith (2000)
God is Back	John Micklethwait	How the Global Revival of Faith is Changing the World (2009)
The Children Are Free	Rev. Jeff Miner	Re-examining the Biblical Evidence on Same-sex Relationships (2002)
Jesus Through the Centuries Mary Through the Centuries	Jaroslav Pelikan	(1985) (1996)
85 Years of Great Writing in Time Magazine 1923-2008	Christopher Porterfield	(2008)
The Mind of the Maker	Dorothy L. Sayers	(1941)
Five Practices of Fruitful Congregations	Robert Schnase	(2007)
Go and Do Likewise	William C. Spohn	Jesus and Ethics (1999)
Born of a Woman	John Shelby Spong	A Bishop Rethinks the Birth of Jesus (1992)
The Big Questions in Science and Religion	Keith Ward	(2008)

The Dr. Jay Southwick Environmental Collection

Living with the Planet: Making a Difference in a Time of Climate Change	Catherine Von Ruhland	2008
The Riverkeepers: Two Activists Fight to Reclaim our Environment as a Basic Human Right	John Cronin and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.	1997
The Atlas of Climate Change – Mapping the World's Greatest Challenge	Kirstin Dow and Thomas E. Downing	2006
The Greenfestival Reader (An Anthology)	Fresh Ideas from agents of Change	2008
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why we need a green revolution – and how it can renew America	Thomas L. Friedman	2008
How Green is Your City?	The SustainLane US City Rankings	2007

The Complete Works of John Wesley (Reference Only)

Chicken Soup for the Soul Collection

The Pastor's Reading List Collection

Wesley Library Featured Reader Collections

Currently featuring Tara Macy's Collection

Media Collection

ENVIRONMENTAL DVD COLLECTION:

Out of the Air – Into the Soil. Land Practices That Reduce Atmospheric Carbon Levels	2008
Kilowatt Ours: A Plan to Re-Energize America	2005
What the Bleep Do We Know? Science and spirituality come together in this mind-bending trip down the rabbit hole.	2004
Hummingbirds of the Backyard by Sheri Williamson, Southeastern Arizona Bird Observatory	2007
An Inconvenient Truth: A Global Warning	2007
Global Warming: The Signs and The Science	2005 – A PBS Home Video
Walt Disney's Sacred Planet. Narrated by Robert Redford
Troubled Waters – Critical Issues of Water Shortage Through the Lens of Faith	An ABC-TV Production with the United Church of Christ
The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil	2006
Generation Earth: Today's Students Empowering Tomorrow's Generation	Grades 9-12
IMAX – Cosmic Voyage, Narrated by Morgan Freeman. Smithsonian Institute, National Air & Space Museum, and the Motorola Foundation	1996
The Great Warming: A Call to Action. Narrated by Keanu Reeves & Alanis Morissette	2006
California: On the Front Lines of Global Warming.
The 11th Hour: Turn Mankind's Darkest Hour into Its Finest. Narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio
The Awakening Universe. A Liberating New Cosmology for Our Time. A Film by NEal Rogin
A New Story: The Damage We are Doing to Our Planet. By Thomas Berry
Moving Mountains – Voices of Appalachia. Music DVD from the West Virginia Hills.