Host Jen Pollock Michel is joined by three great guests for a live conversation (as well as an abundance of recorded contributions from other guests) for a wide-ranging and freewheeling conversation about our favorite books of 2020.
C. Christopher Smith is the Founding Editor of The Englewood Review of Books and the author of a number of books, including most recently How the Body of Christ Talks, published by Brazos in 2019.
John Wilson is the former editor of Books & Culture. He is now Contributing Editor for The Englewood Review of Books.
Sarah Arthur is the author of a dozen books on the intersection of faith and great literature, including the award-winning A Light So Lovely: The Spiritual Legacy of Madeleine L’Engle. She served as co-director of the first-ever Madeleine L’Engle Conference “Walking on Water” at the end of 2019 and will co-lead the L’Engle Writing Retreat in northwest CT, tentatively rescheduled for November 2021. You can learn more about her work at her website saraharthur.info. Sarah is currently writing fiction and a preliminary fiction judge of the CT Book awards
Books mentioned in this episode:
- A Light So Lovely: The Spiritual Legacy of Madeleine L’Engle by Sarah Arthur
- A Long Time Comin’ by Robin Pearson
- Keys to Bonhoeffer’s Haus: Exploring the World and Wisdom of Dietrich Bonhoeffer by Laura Fabrycky
- Deacon King Kong: A Novel by James McBride
- The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride
- The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
- Sex and the City of God: A Memoir of Love and Longing by Carolyn Weber
- Rhythms for Life: Spiritual Practices for Who God Made You to Be by Alastair Sterne
- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
- What It’s Like to be a Bird by David Allen Sibley
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- Sisters by Daisy Johnson
- Dorothy and Jack: The Transforming Friendship of Dorothy Sayers and C.S. Lewis by Gina Dalfonzo
- The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism and the Road to Sexual Revolution by Carl Trueman
- The Last Children of Mill Creek by Vivian Gibson
- Midwest Futures by Phil Christman
- Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers by Dane Ortlund
- A Prayer for Orion: A Son’s Addiction and a Mother’s Love by Katherine James
- Can You See Anything Now? by Katherine James
- Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
- Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller
- Everything Sad Is Untrue: A True Story by Daniel Nayeri
- Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir by Nikki Grimes
- Class Act by Jerry Craft
- When God Made the World by Matthew Paul Turner
- Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
- A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith by Timothy Egan
- The Uncontrollability of the World by Hartmut Rosa
- Charis in the World of Wonders: A Novel Set in Puritan New England by Marly Youmans
- Living Things: Collected Poems by Anne Porter
- One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder by Brian Doyle
- The Recovering: Intoxication and its Aftermath by Leslie Jamison
- Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance by Nikki Grimes
- Art & Faith: A Theology of Making by Makoto Fujimura
- How to Fight Racism by Jemar Tisby
- A Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep by Tish Harrison Warren
- Antiquities by Cynthia Ozick
- A Burning in My Bones: The Authorized Biography of Eugene Peterson by Winn Collier
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