Reading:

• The Barmen Theses Then and Now by Eberhard Busch
• Christ, Justice and Peace: Towards a Theology of the State by Eberhard Jüngel (I read this every year. It’s wonderful, and I need to keep hearing the challenge.)
• The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (trans. by Clive James)
• The Trout Diaries: A Year of Fly-Fishing in New Zealand by Derek Grzelewski
• Karl Barth in Conversation edited by W. Travis McMaken and David W. Congdon (forthcoming with Wipf and Stock)
• The Meaning of Recognition: New Essays 2001–2005 by Clive James

Listening

• Christmas Oratorio by J.S. Bach 
• Pure Heroine by Lorde 
• Land of the Living by Matthew Perryman Jones 
• Swallow the Sea by Matthew Perryman Jones
• Heart Tattoo by Enda Kenny
• Ascenseur Pour L’Echafaud (Lift To The Scaffold): Original Soundtrack by Miles Davis 
• Live in Europe 1967: The Bootleg Series Vol. 1 by Miles Davis
• Standards & Ballads by Wynton Marsalis 
• Black Codes by Wynton Marsalis 
• Spirit Bird by Xavier Rudd 
• Food in the Belly by Xavier Rudd 
• Solace by Xavier Rudd
• White Moth by Xavier Rudd 
• Koonyum Sun by Xavier Rudd & Izintaba 
• To Let by Xavier Rudd
• 13 Songs You May or May Not Have Heard Before by Richard Shindell
• American Kid by Patty Griffin

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