16 books I recommend:
- Between Midnight and Dawn: A Literary Guide to Prayer for Lent, Holy Week, and Eastertide – Sarah Arthur
- A Woman’s Place: A Christian Vision for Your Calling in the Office, the Home, and the World – Katelyn Beatty
- Garden In the East: The Spiritual Life of the Body – Angela Doll Carlson
- The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery – Ian Morgan Cron and Susan Stabile
- Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk, and True Flourishing – Andy Crouch
- Spiritual Sobriety: Stumbling Back to Faith When Good Religion Goes Bad – Elizabeth Esther
- Parables and Paradox: Sonnets on the Sayings of Jesus and Other Poems – Malcolm Guite
- Assimilate Or Go Home: Notes From a Failed Missionary on Rediscovering Faith – D.L. Mayfield
- Called to Community: The Life Jesus Wants for His People – edited by Charles E. Moore
- Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living – Shauna Niequist
- Soul Bare: Stories of Redemption by Emily P. Freeman, Sarah Bessey, Trillia Newbell and More – edited by Cara Sexton
- Original Blessing: Putting Sin In Its Rightful Place – Danielle Shroyer
- You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit – James K.A. Smith
- The Broken Way: A Daring Path Into the Abundant Life – Ann Voskamp
- Out of the House of Bread: Satisfying Your Hunger for God with the Spiritual Disciplines – Preston Yancey
- Night Driving: A Story of Faith in the Dark – Addie Zierman
8 blogs posts I enjoyed reading:
- Beauty will save the world – Andrew Petiprin (The Living Church, January)
- When Beauty Strikes – David Brooks (New York Times, January)
- I want a religion – Mac Stewart (The Living Church, April)
- Dear church: An open letter from one of those millennials you can’t figure out – Jonathan Aigner (Patheos, May)
- God Needs Women – Rachel Held Evans (July)
- Only the dumb ones go into parish ministry – Sarah Condon (The Living Church, July)
- And on the seventh day, many don’t rest at all – Lisa Wangsness (Boston Globe, November)
- Her Loss – Lindy West (New York Times, November)
8 blog posts I enjoyed writing:
- Happy (Still) Easter (April)
- Where Are All the Women? (May)
- Hey. Thanks For Caring. (May)
- From the Other Side (June)
- First Things First (June)
- Carry Each Other (July)
- Why Seminary? (August)
- Sacrament at the Soul of Me (September)
