being in community, deep talks, musical exploration, Christian theology and liturgy, the humanities and social sciences, the interweb, public radio, ethnomusicology, making music, being a nerd about texas, listening, the global church, social and environmental justice, progressive politics, the gospel of reconciliation, living simply holistically and creatively, subverting the empire
people who will encourage me, challenge me, inspire me, and show me how to live.
ani difranco, aradhna, j. s. bach, devendra banhart, samuel barber, the beatles, belle and sebastian, andrew bird, björk, vashti bunyan, michael card, the carpenters, johnny cash, the chieftains, cowboy junkies, the danielson famile, claude debussy, the decemberists, donovan, nick drake, bob dylan, ester drang, george gershwin, hem, ida, the innocence mission, iron and wine, jethro tull, madison greene, loreena mckennitt, olivier messiaen, rich mullins, willie nelson, joanna newsom, over the rhine, arvo pärt, pedro the lion, the polyphonic spree, the psalters, radiohead, damien rice, martin sexton, sigur rós, simon and garfunkel, the smashing pumpkins, starflyer 59, miranda stone, sufjan stevens, john michael talbot, rosie thomas, ticklepenny corner, rufus wainwright, abigail washburn, waterdeep, denison witmer
10 things i hate about you, amélie, baraka, before sunrise, blood diamond, calendar girls, the constant gardener, crash, donnie darko, edward scissorhands, erin brockovich, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, hairspray, hotel rwanda, mary poppins, monty python and the holy grail, napoleon dynamite, nowhere in africa, o brother where art thou?, once, the princess bride, real women have curves, return to me, the royal tenenbaums, run lola run, saving grace, smoke signals, the sound of music, spirited away, sweet home alabama, water, zoolander
the bible, the book of common prayer, wendell berry, frederick buechner, roald dahl, annie dillard, madeleine l'engle, c. s. lewis, brian mclaren, henri nouwen, n. t. wright, after the locusts (denise ackermann), how the irish saved civilization (thomas cahill), the man who was thursday (g. k. chesterton), christianity rediscovered (vincent donovan), the curious incident of the dog in the night-time (mark haddon), hinds' feet on high places (hannah hurnard), the ragamuffin gospel (brennan manning), blue like jazz (donald miller), gilead (marilynne robinson), ishmael (daniel quinn)
Jesus Christ, St. Francis of Assisi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Oscar Romero, Dorothy Day, Nelson Mandela, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Mother Teresa, ordinary people all over the world who live out shalom