Arts / Essays Archive
“What books, poems, and films help you follow the resurrected Jesus?”
These are responses from parishioners at Advent Anglican. If there are additional books, poems, or films that you’d like to add to this list, please send them to Deacon Jeremiah.
Essays & Articles
Advancing the Kingdom: Shalom in Sport / Timothy G. Gombis
Transforming the Body: Salvation as Restoration to the Proper Use of the Body in Romans / Timothy G. Gombis
Why We Need to Start Talking About God / Tish Harrison Warren.
Review of "Art and Faith" with Interview of the Author, Makoto Fujimura / Chandra Crane
Books
Safely Home / Randy Alcorn
The Brothers Karamazov / Fyodor Dostoevsky
Road to Cana / Anne Rice
Peace Like a River / Leif Enger
Les Misérables / Victor Hugo
Anna Karenina / Tolstoy
Hope for Judas / Christopher Wrembek
Gilead and Lila / Marilynne Robinson
Illusions / Richard Bach
Liturgy of the Ordinary / Tish Harrison Warren
Prayer in the Night / Tish Harrison Warren
Ordinary Grace / William Kent Krueger
Jayber Crow / Wendell Berry
Island of the World / Michael O’Brian
East of Eden / John Steinbeck
Beauty for Truth’s Sake / Stratford Caldecott
Gentle and Lowly / Dane Ortlund
The Shack / William P. Young
The Gravity of Joy / Angela Williams Gorrell
The End of the Christian Life: How Embracing our Mortality Allows us to Truly Live / J. Todd Billings
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics By Its Most Brilliant Teacher / Richard P. Feynman
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics / Carlo Rovelli
The Order of Time / Carlo Rovelli
“What If?” Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions / Randall Munroe
Being Well When We're Ill / Marva Dawn
Darkness Is My Only Companion / Kathryn Greene-McCreight
Till We Have Faces / C.S. Lewis
I Need Thee Every Hour / Heather Headley
Reformation Anglicanism / Ashley Null
Poems
God’s Grandeur / Gerard Manley Hopkins
Four Quartets and Ash Wednesday / T.S. Eliot
Love (3) / George Herbert
Love Poems to God / Rainer Maria Rilke
Poems of the Incarnation / Luci Shaw
Films
The Tree of Life (2011) and A Hidden Life (2019) / Dir. Terrence Malick
The Mission (1986) / Dir. Roland Joffé
Faith like Potatoes (2006) / Dir. Regardt van den Bergh
The Chosen (2017 – Miniseries) / Dir. Dallas Jenkins
Man of La Mancha (1972) / Dir. Arthur Hiller
The Matrix (1999) / Dir. The Wachowskis
E.T. (1982) / Dir. Stephen Spielberg
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) / Dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
Gravity (2013) / Dir. Alfonso Cuaón
Chariots of Fire (1981) / Dir. Hugh Hudson
Amadeus (1984) / Dir. Miloš Forman
Babette’s Feast (1987) Dir. Gabriel Axel
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) / Dir. Frank Capra
The Shawshank Redemption (1994) / Dir. Frank Darabont
Star Wars (1977) / Dir. George Lucas
Jesus of Montreal (1989) / Dir. Denys Arcand
Brother Son / Father Moon
Music
On The Nature of Daylight / Max Richter
His Heart Beats (from Resurrection Letters Vol. 1) / Andrew Peterson
Read On / Mr. and Mrs. Something
Messiah / Handel
Faust / Gounod
Requiem / Verdi
Requiem / Mozart
Sigur Ros
