Begin with a question
Start with your present season, tension, need, or desire rather than trying to understand the entire catalog first.
The Living Library
A library that helps form a life.
More than a catalog, the Living Library connects books, teachings, questions, practices, and next reads into an intentional formation system.
The complete formation ecosystem
Not a shelf.
A living relationship
between ideas.
The Bourne Again Living Library is the connected body of books, teachings, questions, practices, interviews, and next steps created through Bourne Again Media. Each book can stand on its own, but it does not stand alone.
The system helps readers begin with the question they are actually carrying, understand where a book belongs, and continue into the most meaningful next conversation.
54completed books
12formation pathways
196mapped relationships
How to use the library
Enter through one book
Every title receives a permanent page connecting its description, series, interview, teachings, and publication information.
Follow the relationships
Continue with a next read, complementary title, broader pathway, or curriculum connection chosen for meaning rather than sales.
Move into practice
Use reflection, teaching, workbooks, leader resources, and community conversation to carry ideas into embodied life.
Every book becomes a media hub
Read the book.
Hear the conversation.
Will’s book interviews and related videos will be housed on their original catalog pages. A visitor reading about a title will be able to move directly into the author interview, selected teaching clips, podcast conversations, and the next book in the journey.
The videos may be hosted through YouTube, but the Living Library will preserve their context and relationship to the written work.
Explore book profilesCATALOG 43160
The God We Were Taught
BOOKCover, description, series position
INTERVIEWWill Bourne discusses the book
TEACHINGSRelated video and audio
CONTINUEMeaningful next reads
The core six-volume curriculum
The Living Library Curriculum
The curriculum is a defined formation journey within the larger Living Library. Its cumulative movement is Vision, Theology, Way of Christ, Apprenticeship, Practice, and Mission.
Each volume includes a reader book, Participant Workbook, and Leader Guide so the material can serve personal formation, small groups, churches, cohorts, and leadership teams.
Begin with Volume I →
One name, two connected meanings
The Living Library ecosystem
The entire connected body of Bourne Again books, teachings, interviews, practices, pathways, and relationships.
54 completed books · 12 pathwaysThe Living Library Curriculum
The specific six-volume formation sequence with reader books, Participant Workbooks, and Leader Guides.
6 volumes · 18 coordinated resourcesFrom the back of every book
Continue your journey.
The same architecture can appear in the back matter of future editions: a primary next read, a complementary book, the reader’s current pathway, and a direct link to the digital catalog page.
This makes the printed books and the evolving digital library parts of one system. ISBNs and retailer links can be added later without changing the permanent catalog identity of each title.
Find your starting point