Our Faves

We both love music and movies, and sharing them. Oh, and books. Ben likes them sligtly more than Jen likes them, but we both suggest investing some time in getting to know these authors — and characters. Here are some of our faves.

Music
Bob Dylan; Arcade Fire; Sujan Stevens; Bright Eyes; Johnny Cash; David Wilcox; J.S. Bach; Vivaldi; John Dunstable; Wilco; Radiohead; Led Zeppelin; Danny Byram; Jack Johnson, Miriam Jones… the prayerbook project

Ben likes the banjo and the violin a lot. Jen likes a’capella and cello a lot.

Movies
Fight Club; Momemto; Little Miss Sunshine; Wit; Other People’s Lives; About Schmidt; The Mission; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; The Third Miracle; Lord of the Rings; Amadeus; Ray; Finding Neverland; The Constant Gardener; The Village; I Heart Huckabees; Princess Bride; Ferris Bueller’s Day Off; Zoolander; Anchorman; Mystic River; Million Dollar Baby; Pirates of the Caribbean; What about Bob?; Big Fish; I, Robot; Rounders; The Notebook; Jude the Obscure; The Shawshank Redemption …

Jen likes movies about what it means to be human, and stories of journies into that.

Books
Anything by N.T. Wright, C.S. Lewis, Flannery O’Connor, Charles Williams, Fyodor Dostoevsky, or Alister McGrath; The Sparrow and Children of God by Mary Doria Russel; Six Thinking Hats and How to Have a Beautiful Mind by Edward De Bono; Augustine’s Confessions; Calvin’s Institutes; Luther’s Catechisms; Dante’s Divine Comedy; Teaching a Stone to Talk and The Writing Life by Annie Dillard; The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene; St. Anselm’s Proslogion; The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind by Mark Noll; Knowing God by J.I. Packer; Theology, Music and Time by Jeremy Begbie; Theodrama by Hans Urs Von Balthasar; The Christian Year by John Keble; The Second Coming by Walker Percy; The Curate’s Awakening by George MacDonald; Life Together by Detrich Bonhoeffer; People of the Lie by M. Scott Peck …

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