Best of ’16

16 books I recommend:

1. Between Midnight and Dawn: A Literary Guide to Prayer for Lent, Holy Week, and Eastertide – Sarah Arthur
2. A Woman’s Place: A Christian Vision for Your Calling in the Office, the Home, and the World – Katelyn Beatty
3. Garden In the East: The Spiritual Life of the Body – Angela Doll Carlson
4. The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery – Ian Morgan Cron and Susan Stabile
5. Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk, and True Flourishing – Andy Crouch
6. Spiritual Sobriety: Stumbling Back to Faith When Good Religion Goes Bad – Elizabeth Esther
7. Parables and Paradox: Sonnets on the Sayings of Jesus and Other Poems – Malcolm Guite
8. Assimilate Or Go Home: Notes From a Failed Missionary on Rediscovering Faith – D.L. Mayfield
9. Called to Community: The Life Jesus Wants for His People – edited by Charles E. Moore
10. Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living – Shauna Niequist
11. Soul Bare: Stories of Redemption by Emily P. Freeman, Sarah Bessey, Trillia Newbell and More – edited by Cara Sexton
12. Original Blessing: Putting Sin In Its Rightful Place – Danielle Shroyer
13. You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit – James K.A. Smith
14. The Broken Way: A Daring Path Into the Abundant Life – Ann Voskamp
15. Out of the House of Bread: Satisfying Your Hunger for God with the Spiritual Disciplines – Preston Yancey
16. Night Driving: A Story of Faith in the Dark – Addie Zierman

8 blogs posts I enjoyed reading:

1. Beauty will save the world – Andrew Petiprin (The Living Church, January)
2. When Beauty Strikes – David Brooks (New York Times, January)
3. I want a religion – Mac Stewart (The Living Church, April)
4. Dear church: An open letter from one of those millennials you can’t figure out – Jonathan Aigner (Patheos, May)
5. God Needs Women – Rachel Held Evans (July)
6. Only the dumb ones go into parish ministry – Sarah Condon (The Living Church, July)
7. And on the seventh day, many don’t rest at all – Lisa Wangsness (Boston Globe, November)
8. Her Loss – Lindy West (New York Times, November)

8 blog posts I enjoyed writing:

1. Happy (Still) Easter (April)
2. Where Are All the Women? (May)
3. Hey. Thanks For Caring. (May)
4. From the Other Side (June)
5. First Things First (June)
6. Carry Each Other (July)
7. Why Seminary? (August)
8. Sacrament at the Soul of Me (September)