Great Reads and Good Listens
Books
Memoir as Medicine: Recommended Recollections
Tolkien, Trees and a Naturalist’s Notebook
Flannery O’Connor Exposes Our Judgmental Hearts, Preparing Us for Grace
Five Standouts from a Reading Year
Three Reasons to Make Time for Undset’s Kristin Lavransdatter
The Book Thief Stole My Heart (and Reminded Me Why I Read)
Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead: A Merciful Mind for Our Contentious Time
The Lab Girl and the Contemplative: A Campsite Convergence
Poetry
Choose Something Like a Star: A Christmas Contemplation
The Silence: A Poem by Wendell Berry
Mary Oliver’s Thirst: A Humble Heart Revealed
George Herbert’s Secrets of Soul Revealed in a Package of Poetry
Innocence: A Light and Sparkling Treasure
Music
Grant Me the Grace to Hurt Like Rich Mullins
In the Night: A Song for Your Playlist of Hope
Ugly Politics Free Us to Remember Our True Home (Land of My Sojourn)
Listening to Handel while the Nations Rage
Choose Something Like a Star: A Christmas Contemplation
Brother: A Song for Holy Thursday’s New Commandment
Podcasts & Audio
Poetry’s Penetrating Power in Five Minutes with the Daily Poem Podcast
Recover Your Optimism with the Love Good Podcast
The Mars Hill Audio Journal: Where All Things Considered Meets God
The Bishop Who Refuses to Dumb Down the Faith: The Word on Fire Show
Film
Netflix’ Outlaw King: Battle, Betrayal and the Body’s True Beauty
Emily Blunt Offers a Stunning Portrait of Womanhood in Krasinki’s A Quiet Place
The Truth is in the Stars…or is Faith the Final Frontier?
Scorese’s Silence: A Four-Question Examination of Conscience
The Case for Christ Film an Improvement over God’s Not Dead
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