Reading 2016

A self-explanatory list, mostly an antidote to my own forgetfulness.  Most recent reads and views at the top. 
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Books

  1. Leisure: The Basis of Culture, Josef Pieper (1952).
  2. The Making of a Leader, Robert Clinton (1988).
  3. The Sellout, Paul Beatty (2015).
  4. Money and Power, Jaques Ellul (1979).
  5. The Moral Vision of the New Testament, Richard Hays (1996).
  6. The Christian Imagination, Willie James Jennings (2002).
  7. Collected Essays, James Baldwin (1998).
  8. The Shipwrecked Mind, Mark Lilla (2016).
  9. White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, Carol Anderson (2016).
  10. A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America, Ronald Takaki (2008).
  11. The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought, Marilynne Robinson (2005).
  12. A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, David Foster Wallace (1998).
  13. The Abundance, Annie Dillard (2016).
  14. The Fire This Time, Jesmyn Ward (2016).
  15. Battle Cry of Freedom, James McPherson (1988).
  16. Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance (2016).
  17. Writing Down the Bones, Natalie Golberg (1986).
  18. Why not Me?, Mindy Kaling (2015).
  19. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Frederick Douglass (1845).
  20. The Reason Why the Colored American is not in the World’s Columbian Exposition, Ida B. Wells and Frederick Douglass (1893).
  21. The End of White Christian America, Robert P. Jones (2016).
  22. Sisters and Saints, Ann Braude (2007).
  23. Canaan Land, Albert J. Raboteau (2001).
  24. The Old Religion in a New World, Mark A. Noll (2002).
  25. Sexuality and the Black Church: A Womanist Perspective, Kelly Brown Douglas (1999).
  26. Oriented to Faith, Tim Otto (2014).
  27. The Black Christ, Kelly Brown Douglas (1994).
  28. Arab and Jew, David K. Shipler (2015).
  29. The South Side, Natalie Moore (2016).
  30. Democracy in Black, Eddie S. Glaude (2016).
  31. On Christian Doctrine, Saint Augustine.

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Films

  1. Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015).
  2. Creed (2015).
  3. Winter on Fire (2015).
  4. Cartel Land (2015).