Bookshelf

CURRENTLY READING

What It Means to Be Human
by O. Carter Snead
Stolen Air
by Christian Wiman
Letters and Papers from Prison
by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

CURRENTLY STREWN AROUND THE HOUSE

Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
by Ursula K. Le Guin
Joy in Service on Rue Tagore
by Paul Muldoon
I Am the Beggar of the World
by Eliza Griswold
Collected Poems 1943-2004
by Richard Wilbur
Unto this Last
by T. J. Barringer
Collected Poems, 1948-1984
by Derek Walcott
You and Yours
by Naomi Shihab Nye
Learning Human
by Les Murray
Bird By Bird: Some Instructions On Writing And Life
by Anne Lamott

IN THE QUEUE

The Uses of Idolatry
by William T. Cavanaugh
Living Spirit of Revolt
by Žiga Vodovnik
Cosmic Connections
by Charles Taylor
Secondhand Time
by Svetlana Alexievich

FINISHED READING

On the Natural History of Destruction
by W.G. Sebald
Including the Stranger
by David G. Firth
Time's Echo
by Jeremy Eichler
The Lives of the Spirit / Glasstown: Where Something Got Broken
by Fanny Howe
Saint Augustine
by Garry Wills
Shield the Joyous
by Chad Holley
Mental Fight
by Ben Okri
Metaphysical Horror
by Leszek Kolakowski
Ingrained
by Callum Robinson

2024

Aimless Love
by Billy Collins
At Work in the Ruins
by Dougald Hine
Love's Braided Dance
by Norman Wirzba
The Rigor of Angels
by William Egginton
Love Taking Shape
by Gilbert Meilaender
Being Consumed
by William T. Cavanaugh
The Best of It
by Kay Ryan
Silence
by Shusaku Endo
The Prophetic Imagination
by Walter Brueggemann
Walter Brueggemann's Prophetic Imagination
by Conrad L. Kanagy
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
by Anne Fadiman
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
by Shoshana Zuboff
The Present Age
by Soren Kierkegaard
Democracy and Solidarity
by James Davison Hunter
The Bridge on the Drina
by Ivo Andríc
Upstream
by Mary Oliver
Reading Genesis
by Marilynne Robinson
Iron John
by Robert Bly
The Spell of the Sensuous
by David Abram
Zero at the Bone
by Christian Wiman
The Life You Save May Be Your Own
by Paul Elie
The Character of Virtue
by Stanley Hauerwas

2023

On Not Being Someone Else
by Andrew H. Miller
Atomic Habits
by James Clear
Awakenings
by Oliver Sacks
Culture Care
by Makoto Fujimura
And There Was Light
by Jon Meacham
No Picnic on Mount Kenya
by Felice Benuzzi
Synthesizing Gravity
by Kay Ryan
Natality: Toward a Philosophy of Birth
by Jennifer Banks
Neither Beast Nor God: The Dignity of the Human Person
by Gilbert Meilaender
Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times
by Jonathan Sacks
The Colossus
by Sylvia Plath
Balkan Contextual Theology
by Stipe Odak
On Lying and Politics
by Hannah Arendt
Why We Drive
by Matthew Crawford
American Journal
by Tracy K. Smith
On Quality
by Robert M. Pirsig
The Scarlet Pimpernel
by Baroness Orczy
The Redress of Poetry
by Seamus Heaney
Repair
by C. K. Williams
On Getting Out of Bed
by Alan Noble
Life Worth Living
by Miroslav Volf
The Home of God
by Miroslav Volf
Bad Land
by Jonathan Raban
Thin Places: A Natural History of Healing and Home
by Kerri ní Dochartaigh
The Ethics of Authenticity
by Charles Taylor
Hope Abandoned
by Nadezhda Mandelstam
The Need to Be Whole: Patriotism and the History of Prejudice
by Wendell Berry
Quiet Power & Quiet The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking By Susan Cain 2 Books Collection Set
by Susan Cain
Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson
The Poetry of Impermanence, Mindfulness, and Joy
by
Road-side Dog
by Czesław Miłosz

2022

The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
by Lewis Hyde
The Winter Sun: Notes on a Vocation
by Fanny Howe
Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine
by Alan Lightman
Godric
by Frederick Buechner
The Dangers of Christian Practice
by Lauren F. Winner
The Uncontrollability of the World
by Hartmut Rosa
The Other Walk
by Sven Birkerts
A New Orthography: Poems
by Serhiy Zhadan
Small Wonder: Essays
by Barbara Kingsolver
Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
by Mary Oliver
All Things Beautiful: An Aesthetic Christology
by Chris E. W. Green
Markings
by Dag Hammarskjold
Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation
by Jonathan Lear
Evangelical Anxiety: A Memoir
by Charles Marsh
Atonement: A Novel
by Ian McEwan
Life Work
by Donald Hall
The Emigrants
by W. G. Sebald
The Children of Men
by P. D. James
Bonhoeffer’s Religionless Christianity in Its Christological Context
by Peter Hooton
The Buried Giant
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Candles in the Dark: Faith, Hope and Love in a Time of Pandemic
by Rowan Williams
Syllable of Water: Twenty Writers of Faith Reflect On Their Art
by
Light Perpetual: A Novel
by Francis Spufford
A Pelican in the Wilderness: Hermits and Solitaries
by Isabel Colegate
Erratic Facts
by Kay Ryan
The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
by Oliver Burkeman
One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder
by Brian Doyle
Blue Nights
by Joan Didion
Home: 100 Poems
by
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
by David Graeber
A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS
by Robert F. Worth
Crossroads: A Novel
by Jonathan Franzen
On the Road With Saint Augustine: A Real World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
by James K A Smith
Hope Against Hope: A Memoir
by Nadezhda Mandelstam
Touching This Leviathan
by Peter Wayne Moe
The Rings of Saturn
by W. G. Sebald
Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
by Carlo Rovelli
Thunder in the Soul: To Be Known By God (Plough Spiritual Guides: Backpack Classics)
by Abraham Joshua Heschel
Night Came with Many Stars
by Simon Van Booy
Arctic Dreams
by Barry Lopez