I hate naming stuff. When I was a youth pastor, it was torture for me to come up with a good name for our ministry. If I ever have a child, they’ll probably remain nameless until they’re 3 or 4 because I’ll be unwilling to commit to any one name.
It took me forever to finally decide on a title for my book. I bugged a lot of my friends with text after text of TERRIBLE title ideas. I knew I had to get all the bad ones out of my system if I was ever going to find one I was happy with.
I probably came up with at least 100 words or phrases I thought I could name my book. Here’s a list of 45.
Let me remind you that the book is about vulnerability. Why it’s important in the life of the church, why we’re afraid of it, and why we don’t have to be.
The title I came up with is IN THE ALTOGETHER. If you want to learn more about that, you can download a free preview.
Here are a ton of awful names…
Breaking Open
Sharing Your Life
Show Yourself
Too Human (as in “we are all too human to try to live without vulnerability”)
Where Hope Finds Us
Honestly
Wrong, Weak, and Worried
Vulnerable Christianity
The Only Way Forward
Can I be Honest
The Lost Art of Weakness
All My Best Secrets
All Our Best Secrets
All Your Best Secrets
Off Limits
Crying is Cool
The Lost Art of Being Human
How to be Human
Give it all You’ve Got
All the Hidden Monsters
How to be Human
Give it all You’ve Got
All the Hidden Monsters
Can I be Honest?
Full of It
Running From Yourself
Wrapped in Words
Putting it all out there
Putting it out there
No Holding Back
Hello to all our secrets
What’s Left Unsaid
So much to say
Close Enough
Wasted Grace
In Defense of Staying Weak
In Defense of Staying Human
Don’t Go Alone
You’re Not Brave, You’re Stupid
Open
Weak
Bare
Known
Share
Bumbling