Influences

Artwork

The artwork of Martin French

The artwork of Makoto Fujimura

The artwork of Katsushika Hokusai

The artwork of Rembrandt

The artwork of Georges Rouault

The artwork of Vincent Van Gogh

 

Books (listed in alphabetical order by author’s last name)

The City of God by Augustine

The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine

Church Dogmatics by Karl Barth

Community, State, and Church by Karl Barth

Evangelical Theology: An Introduction by Karl Barth

The Humanity of God by Karl Barth

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart by Karl Barth

Christ the Center by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Letters and Papers from Prison by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Faith in Community by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin

Theopolitical Imagination: Christian Practices of Space and Time by William T. Cavanaugh

The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James Cone

Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Treatise on Grace and Other Posthumously Published Writings by Jonathan Edwards, edited by Paul Helm

The Works of Jonathan Edwards, vol. 2 Religious Affections edited by John E. Smith

The Journals of Jim Elliot edited by Elisabeth Elliot

Shadow of the Almighty: the Life and Testament of Jim Elliot by Elisabeth Elliot

The Navigator: Dawson Trotman by Robert D. Foster

Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire

Act and Being: Towards a Theology of the Divine Attributes by Colin E. Gunton

Becoming and Being: The Doctrine of God in Charles Hartshorne and Karl Barth by Colin E. Gunton

The One, the Three and the Many: God, Creation, and the Culture of Modernity by Colin E. Gunton

The Promise of Trinitarian Theology by Colin E. Gunton

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. edited by Clayborne Carson

The Evangelicals You Don’t Know: Introducing the Next Generation of Christians by Tom Krattenmaker

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis

Works of Martin Luther by Martin Luther

Fundamentalism and American Culture by George M. Marsden

Jonathan Edwards: A Life by George M. Marsden

The Beloved Community: How Faith Shapes Social Justice from the Civil Rights Movement to Today by Charles Marsh

Searching for God Knows What by Donald Miller

The Crucified God: The Cross of Christ as the Foundation and Criticism of Christian Theology by Jürgen Moltmann

The Basic Writings of Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche

The Gospel in a Pluralist Society by Lesslie Newbigin

A Quiet Revolution: The Christian Response to Human Need, a Strategy for Today by John M. Perkins

Beyond Charity: The Call to Christian Community Development by John M. Perkins

Let Justice Roll Down by John M. Perkins

With Justice for All: A Strategy for Community Development by John M. Perkins

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig

The Supreme Harmony of All: The Trinitarian Theology of Jonathan Edwards by Amy Plantinga Pauw

Orientalism by Edward W. Said

Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years by Carl Sandburg

Daws: The Story of Dawson Trotman, Founder of the Navigators by Betty Lee Skinner

Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America by Christian Smith and Michael O. Emerson

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck

The Message of the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7): Christian Counter-Culture by John R. W. Stott

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Mediation of Christ by Thomas Forsyth Torrance

Being as Communion: Studies in Personhood and the Church by John D. Zizioulas

 

Films & Television

The Apostle

As Good as It Gets

Breaking Bad

Crash

The Godfather

Inspector Morse

Inspector Poirot (Agatha Christie)

The Lord of the Rings (Trilogy)

Mad Men

The Mission

Patch Adams

To End All Wars

Romero

Seven Samurai

Samurai Trilogy

Sherlock Holmes

Walk the Line

 

Music

Johann Sebastian Bach

The Beatles

Ludwig van Beethoven

Johnny Cash

Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young

Bob Dylan

The Doors

Keith Green

Will Ferrell’s version of Robert Goulet

George Frideric Handel

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Larry Norman

The Rolling Stones

Neil Young

Led Zeppelin

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