“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