Reading:

• Les Murray: A Life in Progress by Peter F. Alexander.
• Go the F**k to Sleep by Adam Mansbach.
• Remain in Your Calling: Paul and the Continuation of Social Identities in 1 Corinthians by J. Brian Tucker.
• Gospel, Church, and Ministry by Thomas F. Torrance.
• Intruding Upon the Timeless: Meditations on Art, Faith and Mystery by Gregory Wolfe.
• Cain by Jose Saramago.
• Icon: Studies in the History of An Idea by Moshe Barasch.
• A Wounded Innocence: Sketches for a Theology of Art by Alejandro R. Garcia-Rivera.
• Wolf Hall: A Novel by Hilary Mantel.
• Freedom & Limit: A Dialogue Between Literature and Christian Doctrine by Paul S. Fiddes.
• Tranquil Moments: The Poetry of Prayer by Brian Hardie.
• The Art of Healing: Painting for the Sick and the Sinner in a Medieval Town by Marcia A. Kupfer.
• The Re-enchantment of the World: Art versus Religion by Gordon Graham.
• The Promised End: Eschatology in Theology and Literature by Paul S. Fiddes.
• The Crucifixion of Ministry: Surrendering Our Ambitions to the Service of Christ by Andrew Purves.
• Crying for a Vision and Other Essays: The Collected Steve Scott Vol. One edited by Gord Wilson.
• Faithful Performances: Enacting Christian Tradition edited by Trevor A. Hart and Steven R. Guthrie.
• Rabbit Redux by John Updike.

Listening:

• Through the Smoke of Innocence by Roaring Jack.

Watching:

• Damages: The Complete Third Season
• This Must Be The Place
• In Time

Reading:

• The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart.
• Fighting the Noonday Devil – and Other Essays Personal and Theological by R. R. Reno.
• The Future of Christian Theology by David F. Ford.
• The Spirit of the Past edited by Geoffrey Troughton & Hugh Morrison.
• Between Worlds: Twenty Years on the Border by Burmese Border Consortium.
• Trinitarian Doctrine for Today’s Mission and The Open Secret: An Introduction to the Theology of Mission by Lesslie Newbigin.
• Lessons of the Masters (Charles Eliot Norton Lectures; 2001–2002) by George Steiner.
• The Witness of God: The Trinity, Missio Dei, Karl Barth, and the Nature of Christian Community by John G. Flett.
• When I Was a Child I Read Books: Essays by Marilynne Robinson.
• New Zealand Jesus by Geoffrey Troughton.
• A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean.

Listening:

• Symphony No. 3 ‘Silence’; The Confession of Isobel Gowdie, Veni, Veni Emmanuel and St John Passion by James Macmillan.
• Many Great Companions by Dar Williams.
• All Fall Down by Shawn Colvin.
• The Complete Travel Series by Future of Forestry.

Watching:

• Buried
• Moneyball
• Haywire
• Damages: Season One and Season Two

Reading:

• The Creative Suffering of God by Paul S. Fiddes.
• The Art of Fielding: A Novel by Chad Harbach.
• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion.
• The Cross in Our Context: Jesus and the Suffering World by Douglas John Hall.

Listening:

• The Dreamer by Eric Bogle.
• Storybook by Kasey Chambers.
• Many Great Companions and In the Time of Gods by Dar Williams.
• Dryland and How I Learned to See in the Dark by Chris Pureka.
• All Fall Down by Shawn Colvin.

Watching:

• Kate Rusby – Live from Leeds.
• Letters to Father Jacob. (An exquisite film, full of grace and truth)
• Robin Hood.

Reading:

• Lamentations (Two Horizons Old Testament Commentary) by Robin Parry. [Fantastic! By far the best commentary I’ve read on Lamentations.]
• The Culture of Protestantism in Early Modern Scotland by Margo Todd. [A wonderfully-helpful study. Quite unmatched in its scope.]
• Reforming the Scottish Parish: The Reformation in Fife, 1560–1640 by John McCallum. [Another great read, and one of the most interesting (revised) doctoral dissertations in history that I’ve read this year. BTW: Does anyone know what John McCallum is up to now? I’d like to get in touch with him to express my appreciation for his book.]
• Stylish Academic Writing by Helen Sword. [Helpful in parts, encouraging in others, but promises much more than it delivers.]
• The Scottish Reformation by Gordon Donaldson. [A re-read.]
• Inquiring about God: Volume 1, Selected Essays by Nicholas Wolterstorff.
• Against the Tide: Love in a Time of Petty Dreams and Persisting Enmities by Miroslav Volf.
• Stirling Presbytery Records, 1581–1587 edited by James Kirk. [A fascinating read, indicating, among other things, that some Presbyterian elders have always tended to be a bit fibre deficient.]
• Patterns of Reform by James Kirk. [A re-read of an outstanding collection of essays. First-rate reliable scholarship!]
• The Shape of Practical Theology: Empowering Ministry with Theological Praxis by Ray S. Anderson. [A re-read. Brilliant stuff.]
• Divine Humanity: Kenosis and the Construction of a Christian Theology by David Brown. [Helpful, stimulating and infuriating.]
• Pakeha and the Treaty by Pat Snedden.
• What Shall We Say?: Evil, Suffering, and the Crisis of Faith by Thomas G. Long.
• The Scottish Reformation: Church and Society in Sixteenth Century Scotland by Ian B. Cowan.

Listening:

• The Road by Nick Cave & Warren Ellis.
• Wrecking Ball (Special Edition) by Bruce Springsteen.
• Little Broken Hearts by Norah Jones.
• The Wanting by Glenn Jones.
• Make The Light by Kate Rusby.
• Break It Yourself by Andrew Bird.
• If On A Winter’s Night, Symphonicities and Live In Berlin by Sting.
• Valtari by Sigur Ros.
• Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death by John Fahey.

Watching:

• The Hunger Games (BTW: There’s a good analysis of the film by James Alison here)
• An Idiot Abroad – Series 2
• Footnote
• A Dangerous Method

Reading:

• How To Make Gravy: A to Z, A Mongrel Memoir by Paul Kelly.
• Sanctorum Communio: A Theological Study of the Sociology of the Church by Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
• Act and Being by Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
• Fiction from Tegel Prison by Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
• The Trouble with Golf by Garrick Tremain.
• Sermons from Job by John Calvin.

Listening:

• The Shelter by Talia Caradus.
• Bad As Me by Tom Waits.
• Little Broken Hearts by Norah Jones.
• Adventures in Your Own Backyard by Patrick Watson.

Watching:

• Elizabeth: The Golden Age
• King of Devil’s Island

Reading:

• The Hungry Heart: Journeys with William Colenso by Peter Wells.
• The Search for Salvation: Lay Faith in Scotland 1480–1560 by Audrey-Beth Fitch.
• The Holy Merriment by Arnold Kenseth.
• The Jesus Driven Life: Reconnecting Humanity With Jesus by Michael Hardin.
• The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food by Judith Jones.
• Four Stories by Alan Bennett.
• A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia by Thomas Keneally.
• Ethics in the Presence of Christ by Christopher R. J. Holmes. [Reviewed here]
• The Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection by Robert Farrar Capon.
• Parenting by David H. Jensen.

Listening:

• Wrecking Ball by Bruce Springsteen.
• Death Magnetic by Metallica.
• Modern Times and Together Through Life by Bob Dylan.
• While Mortals Sleep and Make The Light by Kate Rusby.
• Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5; Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps.
• Move by Third Day.
• One Voice and Ministry of the Exterior/Interior by Malcolm Gordon and the One Voice Project.
• Sirens by Khristian Mizzi and The Sirens.
• Mark: The Beginning of the Gospel by Michael Card.
• A Wasteland Companion by M. Ward.

Watching:

• Bill Cunningham New York 
• Bruce Springsteen: The Complete Video Anthology, 1978–2000
• MTV Unplugged: Bruce Springsteen in Concert
• The Iron Lady 
• The Day After 
• The Thomas Crown Affair 
• Hunger 
• Restless 
• Babette’s Feast 

Reading:

• Rabbit, Run by John Updike.
• Handbook of Pastoral Studies by Wesley Carr.
• The Trout Opera by Matthew Condon.
• The Theological Turn in Youth Ministry by Andrew Root and Kenda Creasy Dean.
• Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy.

Listening:

• Hello Cruel World by Gretchen Peters.
• Kisses on the Bottom by Paul McCartney. (b-o-r-i-n-g)
• 50 Words For Snow by Kate Bush.
• Debut by Chance McCoy & The Appalachian String Band.
• Up This High by Carly Thomas.
• How About I Be Me (And You Be You)? by Sinead O’Connor.
• One To The Heart, One To The Head by Gretchen Peters with Tom Russell.
• Old Ideas by Leonard Cohen.
• Perotin by The Hilliard Ensemble.
• Mozart, Clarinet Concerto; Clarinet Quintet.
• Roses by The Cranberries.

Watching:

• 1911
• Restless
• The Idiot

Reading:

• The Reformation by Diarmaid MacCulloch (a re-read, but fruitful every time).
• The Reformation Theologians: An Introduction to Theology in the Early Modern Period by Carter Lindberg.
• Calvin by Bruce Gordon (another re-read).
• Katharina Schütz Zell, Church Mother: The Writings of a Protestant Reformer in Sixteenth-Century Germany edited by Elsie McKee.
• Engaging With Calvin edited by Mark D. Thompson.
• Children of God: The Imago Dei in John Calvin and His Context by Jason Van Vliet.
• Cambridge Theology in the Nineteenth Century by David M. Thompson.
• Morning Knowledge by Kevin Hart.
• Sex, Marriage, and Family Life in John Calvin’s Geneva: Courtship, Engagement, and Marriage  by John Witte Jr. and Robert M. Kingdon.
• Calvin by George W. Stroup.
• Letters to Felice by Franz Kafka.
• Calvin Today: Reformed Theology and the Future of the Church edited by Welker Michael, Michael Weinrich and Ulrich Möller.
• Calvin and the Duchess by F. Whitfield Barton.
• ChurchMorph: How Megatrends Are Reshaping Christian Communities by Eddie Gibbs.

Listening:

• Litany and Alina by Arvo Pärt.
• Bon Iver by Bon Iver.
• All Eternals Deck by Mountain Goats.
• Hymns of the 49th Parallel by K.D. Lang.
• Far Country by Andrew Peterson.
• Perotin, Gesualdo: Tenebrae and Palestrina: Canticum canticorum: Spiritual Madrigals by The Hilliard Ensemble.
• Musik der Reformation: Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott.
• Luke: A World Turned Upside Down by Michael Card.
• El Corazon, Washington Square Serenade, Townes, The Revolution Starts Now, Jerusalem  and I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive by Steve Earle.
• Leave Your Sleep by Natalie Merchant.
• One To The Heart, One To The Head by Gretchen Peters with Tom Russell.
• Circus Girl, The Secret of Life, Gretchen Peters and Halcyon by Gretchen Peters.
• Old Ideas by Leonard Cohen.

Watching:

• Cloudstreet, Season 1
• Puncture
• The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
• The Help

Reading:

• Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism by John Updike.
• Accompanied by Angels: Poems of the Incarnation by Luci Shaw.
• Evangelical Preaching: An Anthology of Sermons by Charles Simeon by Charles Simeon.
• Mary Marston by George MacDonald.
• Starting with Ingredients, by Aliza Green.

Listening:

• Songs From The Rain by Hothouse Flowers.
• Jagged Little Pill Acoustic, Jagged Little Pill and Flavors Of Entanglement by Alanis Morissette.
• Shifting by JD Eicher & the Goodnights.
• Crucifixion and Fretbuzz by John Egenes.
• Catch & Release by Catie King.
• Love & War & The Sea in Between by Josh Garrels.
• Metal & Wood by Tyrone Wells.
• Rise Ye Sunken Ships by We Are Augustines.
• Twenty Three Places by Matt Wertz.
• The Revive Project by Dan & Lauren Smith.
• Now You’re Free by Matthew Mayfield.
• Pacific Coast Eyes by Graham Colton.
• Better Things by Jonah Werner.
• A Fire Burning by Chris Graham.
• Open Book by Andrew Greer.
• Bad As Me by Tom Waits.
• You Can’t Explain Logic by No More Waiting.
• Nothing Left to Burn by Bryan Edwards.
• Sounds of Daniel Bashta by Daniel Bashta.
• Christmas by Attwater.
• Better Days  by Derek Lee Bishop.
• Songs for Christmas by Sufjan Stevens.
• Let England Shake by PJ Harvey.
• You + Me Against The World by Eric Parker.
• Modern Art by Matthew Sweet.
• The Far Country by Andrew Peterson.
• The World Will Move Along by Evan McHugh.
• Unraveled by Brian Burke Band.
• Josh Ritter, Live @ KCD Theater, Louisville, KY 2011-03-19.
• Where The River Breaks Free by A Minor Bird.
• December by Chris Botti.
• Helplessness Blues by Fleet Foxes.
• James Taylor at Christmas by James Taylor.
• Light of the Stable by Emmylou Harris.
• Christmas Songs by Diana Krall.
• 15 Song Career Retrospective by Gretchen Peters.
• Of Lions and Liberty by Apollo and Lacuna.
• Christmas Oratorio by J.S. Bach.
• Western Ballad by Shannon McNally.
• Coal Train Railroad by Coal Train Railroad.

** As mentioned before, most of these albums can be downloaded free from Noisetrade.

Watching:

• Trollhunter 
• The Debt 
• Contagion
• The Last Station 

Reading:

• The Unicorn and Under the Net  by Iris Murdoch.
• Tears of Lady Meng: A Parable of People’s Political Theology, Theology from the Womb of Asia, The Compassionate God: An Exercise in the Theology of Transposition and Christian Mission in Reconstruction: An Asian Analysis by Choan-Seng Song.
• Mangoes or Bananas?: The Quest for an Authentic Asian Christian Theology by Hwa Yung.
• R.S. Thomas: Poetry and Theology by William V. Davis.
• Spirituality of the Psalms and Finally Comes the Poet by Walter Brueggemann. (re-reads)
• The New Atlantis by Francis Bacon.
• The Question of God : Protestant Theology in the Twentieth Century by Heinz Zahrnt.

Listening:

• Artificial Horizon and Achtung Baby (Super Deluxe Edition) by U2.
• Passive Me Aggressive You by The Naked & Famous.
• Our New Life Above the Ground by Avalanche City.
• Taking the Long Way by Dixie Chicks.
• Woven & Spun by Nichole Nordeman.
• Booker’s Guitar and Blues, Ballads & Work Songs by Eric Bibb.
• Christmastide/In the Spirit by Jessye Norman

Watching:

• Gloomy Sunday 
• Iris
• A River Runs Through It 

Reading:

• Beyond Christendom: Globalization, African Migration and the Transformation of the West by Jehu Hanciles.
• On Being the Church Across Frontiers: A Vision of Europe Today by Karel Blei.
• Christ, Justice and Peace: Towards a Theology of the State by Eberhard Jüngel.
• Wilderness Wanderings: Probing Twentieth-Century Theology And Philosophy by Stanley Hauerwas.
• Protestant Theology at the Crossroads: How to Face the Crucial Tasks for Theology in the Twenty-First Century by Gerhard Sauter.
• Performing the Faith: Bonhoeffer and the Practice of Nonviolence by Stanley Hauerwas.
• Reformed Theology: Identity and Ecumenicity II: Biblical Interpretation in the Reformed Tradition edited by Wallace M. Alston & Michael Welker.
• All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain and The Orchard Keeper by Cormac McCarthy.
• The Household of God: Lectures on the Nature of Church by Lesslie Newbigin.
• Collision Crossroads: The Intersection of Modern Western Culture with the Christian Gospel edited by John Flett.
• Snapshots on the Journey: Through Death & Remembrance, edited by Rod MacLeod.
• The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes.
• Why Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino.
• To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World by James Davison Hunter.
• Against the Tide: The Story of the Adomnan of Iona by Warren Bardsley.
• The Stranger’s Child by Alan Hollinghurst.
• Snowdrops by A.D. Miller.
• The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt.
• The Flight from the Enchanter: A Story of Love and Power by Iris Murdoch.
• Theology and the Arts: Encountering God Through Music, Art and Rhetoric by Richard Viladesau.

Some re-reads:

• Liberating Reformed Theology: A South African Contribution to an Ecumenical Debate by John W. De Gruchy.
• Against Christianity by Peter J. Leithart.
• The Word of God and the Word of Man by Karl Barth.

Listening:

• Brian Blade Fellowship, Season of Changes, Perceptual and Mama Rosa by Brian Blade Fellowship.
• Strauss: Concerto Horn 1-2/Concerto Oboe/Duet-Concertino by Andre Previn.
• Letters by Matt Cardle.
• Rrakala and Gurrumul by Gurrumul.
• Live at Saint Gallen and April Uprising by John Butler Trio.
• Come Up Full and The Crossing by Meg Hutchinson.
• Captain Paralytic & Brown Ale Cowboys by Mike Harding.

Watching:

• The Invention of Lying
• Luther: Season 2 
• Wer wenn nicht wir
• Habemus Papam
• Oranges and Sunshine
• State of Play
• Basilicata Coast to Coast

New Apps:

• I guess it was inevitable, but the AAR/SBL App for iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch has arrived.

Reading:

• The Lot: In Words by Michael Leunig.
• Heralds of God by James S. Stewart.
• When I Was in Hospital You Visited Me by Simon Wilson.
• Essays Philosophical and Theological by Rudolf Bultmann.
• The Fiddles of God by Rutherford Waddell.
• Pastoral Care in Hospitals by Neville A. Kirkwood
• Ministry to Outpatients: A New Challenge in Pastoral Care by Herbert Anderson et al.
• Pastoral care in the Modern Hospital by Heije Faber.
• Death and Life by Helmut Thielicke.
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro.
• On the Theology of Death by Karl Rahner.
• Theological Investigations, Vol. XIII: Theology, Anthropology, Christology by Karl Rahner.
• The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy.
• Being and Time by Martin Heidegger.
• The Power to Comprehend with All the Saints: The Formation and Practice of a Pastor-Theologian edited by Wallace M. Alston Jr. and Cynthia A. Jarvis.
• Theology, Death, & Dying by Ray S. Anderson.
• Mighty Stories, Dangerous Rituals: Weaving Together the Human and the Divine by Herbert Anderson and Edward Foley.
• Introverts in the Church: Finding Our Place in an Extroverted Culture by Adam S. McHugh.
• The End of the World and the Ends of God: Science and Theology on Eschatology edited by John Polkinghorne and Michael Welker.
• Death, the Riddle and the Mystery by Eberhard Jüngel.
• Being in Ministry: Honestly, Openly, and Deeply by Douglas Purnell.
• Theology without Words: Theology in the Deaf Community by Wayne Morris.
• Selected Letters by Seneca.
• Eternal Life?: Life After Death as a Medical, Philosophical, and Theological Problem by Hans Küng.

Some re-reads (because some books provoke many visits)

• Life Together and Prayerbook of the Bible (Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Vol. 5) by Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
• Accompany Them with Singing: The Christian Funeral by Thomas Long.
• The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society by Henri Nouwen. [Another re-read, but some books provoke many visits, and this is one of them.]
• On Thinking the Human by Robert Jenson.
• Instead of Death: New and Expanded Edition by William Stringfellow.

Listening:

• Gurrumul and Rrakala by Gurrumul.
• New Map of the World and One by Paul Colman Trio.
• Live In London by Leonard Cohen.
• Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7 – Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
• Alison Krauss & Union Station – Live by Alison Krauss & Union Station.

Watching:

• Animal Kingdom
• The Pipe
• Another Year (I loved this film)

Reading:

• Redemption Songs: A Life of the Nineteenth-century Maori Leader Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki by Judith Binney.
• Trust God, Keep the Faith: The Story of Guido de Bres by Bartha Hill – de Bres.
• The Foods of the Greek Islands: Cooking and Culture at the Crossroads of the Mediterranean by Aglaia Kremezi.
• Klimt and his Cat by Berenice Capatti.
• Introduction to Phenomenology by Dermot Moran.
• Heidegger: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Inwood.
• The Essence of Reasons by Martin Heidegger.
• John Calvin by Simonetta Carr.
• Apology: On the Death of Socrates by Plato.
• The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis.
• Being-in-the-World: A Commentary on Heidegger’s Being and Time, Division I by Hubert L. Dreyfus.
• Positive Preaching and Modern Mind: The Lyman Beecher Lecture on Preaching, Yale University, 1907 by P.T. Forsyth.

Listening:

• Introduction to Elliott Smith by Elliott Smith.
• Nikki by Nikki Yanofsky.
• Seasons of My Soul by Rumer.
• Ô Houria by Souad Massi.

Watching:

• The Tree of Life
• The Thin Red Line
• The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
• The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader 

Reading:

• A Keeper of the Word: Selected Writings of William Stringfellow edited by Bill Wylie Kellermann.
• Assorted Prose by John Updike.
• Flannery O’Connor’s Sacramental Art by Susan Srigley.
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Resistance by Sabine Dramm.
• Lesslie Newbigin, Missionary Theologian: A Reader compiled by Paul Weston.
• Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis.

Listening:

• Instead the Forest Rose to Sing, Little Grey Sheep, Parables & Primes, Live at the Prism Coffeehouse, Make Right the Time, Enjoying the Fall, Man of Many Moons by Danny Schmidt.
• Green by REM.
• Officium Novum by Jan Garbarek & The Hilliard Ensemble.

Watching:

• Henry’s Crime
• The Lord of the Rings
• The Lincoln Lawyer
• The Insatiable Moon

Reading:

• I Asked For Wonder: A Spiritual Anthology by Abraham Joshua Heschel.
• No Other Gospel!: Christianity Among the World’s Religions by Carl E. Braaten.
• Barth by Eberhard Busch. [reviewed here]
• Councils of Churches and the Ecumenical Vision by Diane Kessler & Michael Kinnamon.
• The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis.
• Adrenaline and Stress by Archibald D. Hart.
• Shape of Living, The: Spiritual Directions for Everyday Life by David F. Ford.
• Reading Ray S. Anderson: Theology as Ministry – Ministry as Theology by Christian D. Kettler.
• Unexpected Guests at God’s Banquet: Welcoming People with Disabilities Into the Church by Brett Webb-Mitchell.
• Caring for God’s People: Counseling and Christian Wholeness by Philip L. Culbertson.
• The Truth About Burnout: How Organizations Cause Personal Stress and What to Do About It by Christina Maslach and Michael Leiter.
• Stress: From Burnout to Balance by Vinay Joshi.
• Teachers Managing Stress & Preventing Burnout by Yvonne Gold and Robert A. Roth.
• Reading Seneca: Stoic Philosophy at Rome by Brad Inwood.
• Raising Abel: The Recovery of Eschatological Imagination by James Alison.
• Spirituality in Aotearoa, New Zealand = He kupu whakawairua: Catholic voices edited by Helen Bergin and Susan Smith.

Listening:

• Move by Third Day.
• Kiss Each Other Clean by Iron & Wine.
• Paradiso by Hayley Westenra.
• Bread and Buddha, In Good We Trust (with Kevin Breit) and Isle of Manx by Harry Manx.
• Song of the Traveling Daughter and City of Refuge by Abigail Washburn.
• Abigail Washburn & The Sparrow Quartet by Abigail Washburn & The Sparrow Quartet.
• Man of Many Moons by Danny Schmidt.
• Geography of Light by Carrie Newcomer.
• Vaughan Williams: Orchestral Works.
• This Town and In the Falling Dark by Dave Mallett.
• Banjoman: a tribute to Derroll Adams.
• Central Reservation by Beth Orton.

Watching:

• Unknown
• 13
• Hannah
• Sherlock: Season One
• Oyster Farmer
• The Adjustment Bureau

Reading:

• Entering the New Theological Space: Blurred Encounters of Faith, Politics and Community edited by John Reader and Christopher R. Baker. [Reviewed here]
• Friending: Real Relationships in a Virtual World by Lynne M. Baab. [Reviewed here]
• The Go-Between God by John V. Taylor. [Posted about here]
• Saint Luke by C.F. Evans.
• Memoirs of the Blind: The Self-Portrait and Other Ruins by Jacques Derrida.
• Mentoring: The Promise of Relational Leadership by Walter C. Wright.
• The Blackwell Handbook of Mentoring: A Multiple Perspectives Approach edited by Tammy D. Allen & Lillian T. Eby.
• Spiritual Landscape: Images of the Spiritual Life in the Gospel of Luke by James L. Resseguie.
• Meditations on the Incarnation, Passion, and Death of Jesus Christ by Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg.
• God, Death, and Time by Emmanuel Levinas.
• A History of the Churches in Australasia (Oxford History of the Christian Church) by Ian Breward.
• The Gospel of Luke (NICNT) by Joel B. Green.
• The Writings of Jean-Paul Sartre, Volume 2: Selected Prose by Jean-Paul Sartre.
• Hinterland Theology: A Stimulus to Theological Construction by Alan Sell. [Review to come]
• Minor Dialogues; Together with the Dialogue on Clemency by Lucius Annaeus Seneca.
• Introducing Radical Orthodoxy: Mapping a Post-secular Theology by James K.A. Smith.
• Old South by Matthew Wright.
• Radical Orthodoxy and the Reformed Tradition: Creation, Covenant, and Participation edited by James K.A. Smith and James H. Olthuis.
• The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura. [I really enjoyed this.]

Listening:

• Road Shows: Vol. 1 by Sonny Rollins.
• Helplessness Blues by Fleet Foxes.
• Take Care, Take Care, Take Care by Explosions in the Sky.
• Hard Bargain by Emmylou Harris.
• Song Up in Her Head and Follow Me Down by Sarah Jarosz.
• The Promise by Bruce Springsteen.
• The King Of Limbs by Radiohead.
• Air Museum by Mountains.
• Holding Onto Strings Better Left To Fray by Seether.
• Doctor Zhivago: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by Maurice Jarre.
• Hourglass by Kate Rusby.
• Codes and Keys by Death Cab for Cutie (just out!).

Watching:

• The Rite
• Agora
• Conviction
• Of Gods and Men
• The Next Three Days
• The Tunnel
• The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
• The New World: The Extended Cut

Reading:

• School(s) for Conversion: 12 Marks of a New Monasticism edited by Rutba House. [Reviewed here]
• Mourning Diary by Roland Barthes.
• Migraine by Oliver Sacks.
• A Wretched Man: A Novel of Paul the Apostle by RW Holmen. [Reviewed here]
• The Life of Cicero, Volume I by Anthony Trollope.
• Community of the Transfiguration: The Journey of a New Monastic Community by Paul Dekar. [Reviewed here]
• Grasshopper on the Road by Arnold Lobel.
• Voices Against War: A Century of Protest by Lyn Smith.
• Working with Words: On Learning to Speak Christian by Stanley Hauerwas.
• Paul Celan and Martin Heidegger: An Unresolved Conversation, 1951–1970 by James K. Lyon.
• Resurrection: Interpreting the Easter Gospel by Rowan Williams.
• Road to Routeburn: The Story of Kinloch, Lake Wakatipu by Doreen McKenzie.
• My Name Was Judas by C.K. Stead.
• Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks.
• The Technological Society by Jacques Ellul.
• Luke for Everyone by Tom Wright.

Listening:

• Paper Airplane by Alison Krauss & Union Station.
• Small Source of Comfort by Bruce Cockburn.
• So Beautiful or So What by Paul Simon.
• Being There and An Aching and a Longing by Martyn Joseph.

Watching:

• Missing
• JFK (Director’s Cut)
• Salvador
• The Hurt Locker
• Taking Lives (Director’s Cut)
• Eastern Promises