These are the best of my go-to resources…
- The best of my favorite books and authors
· Frederick Buechner, The Magnificent Defeat and Wishful Thinking
· Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
· C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, Screwtape Letters, Till We Have Faces, and The Chronicles of Narnia
· Kathleen Norris, Amazing Grace
· Eugene Peterson, The Message, The Jesus Way, Tell It Slant, Reversed Thunder, Practice Resurrection, and
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- Movies & Shows
The Concert - A beautiful 2009 French film I saw on Netflix which says of it, "This uplifting comedy follows a fallen maestro who seizes a chance to reunite his orchestra 30 years after politics cuts short his music career."
- Website recommendations
· Taizè - Music centered Christian Community in France
· Iona Community/Wild Goose - A dispersed Christian ecumenical community in Scotland
· BioLogos - A website seeking harmony between science and Biblical faith
· Fixed Point - A website bridging the sacred and the secular
· Canter Bridge - A website of Dr. David Baer
· Conversations - A forum for authentic transformation in Christ
· Bible Gateway - A Bible study resource
- Podcast/radio choices
· Krista Tippet - "On Being" - Spiritual and Life-themed interviews and blogs
· Pray-as-You-Go - A Jesuit lectionary devotional
· TED Radio Hour - Technology, Entertainment, Design - thematic TED talks with Guy Raz
· Planet Money - NPR's take on economics for the layperson