A self-explanatory list, mostly an antidote to my own forgetfulness. Most recent reads and views at the top.
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Books
- Leisure: The Basis of Culture, Josef Pieper (1952).
- The Making of a Leader, Robert Clinton (1988).
- The Sellout, Paul Beatty (2015).
- Money and Power, Jaques Ellul (1979).
- The Moral Vision of the New Testament, Richard Hays (1996).
- The Christian Imagination, Willie James Jennings (2002).
- Collected Essays, James Baldwin (1998).
- The Shipwrecked Mind, Mark Lilla (2016).
- White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, Carol Anderson (2016).
- A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America, Ronald Takaki (2008).
- The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought, Marilynne Robinson (2005).
- A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, David Foster Wallace (1998).
- The Abundance, Annie Dillard (2016).
- The Fire This Time, Jesmyn Ward (2016).
- Battle Cry of Freedom, James McPherson (1988).
- Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance (2016).
- Writing Down the Bones, Natalie Golberg (1986).
- Why not Me?, Mindy Kaling (2015).
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Frederick Douglass (1845).
- The Reason Why the Colored American is not in the World’s Columbian Exposition, Ida B. Wells and Frederick Douglass (1893).
- The End of White Christian America, Robert P. Jones (2016).
- Sisters and Saints, Ann Braude (2007).
- Canaan Land, Albert J. Raboteau (2001).
- The Old Religion in a New World, Mark A. Noll (2002).
- Sexuality and the Black Church: A Womanist Perspective, Kelly Brown Douglas (1999).
- Oriented to Faith, Tim Otto (2014).
- The Black Christ, Kelly Brown Douglas (1994).
- Arab and Jew, David K. Shipler (2015).
- The South Side, Natalie Moore (2016).
- Democracy in Black, Eddie S. Glaude (2016).
- On Christian Doctrine, Saint Augustine.
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Films
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015).
- Creed (2015).
- Winter on Fire (2015).
- Cartel Land (2015).