I usually publish a blog about my favorite books I read during the year. This is that post, but it is also more than that. I decided to embrace my inner-Oprah and make a list of my general favorite things. Mine won’t be selling on Amazon as a promotional item or anything like that, but it was fun for me to come up with the list and think of it in those terms. So here is my list of favorite things from 2022. These are the ideas and sounds that have shaped me this past year. I’m looking forward to see what’s to come in this next year. Until then, enjoy my favorites of 2022.
My Favorite Books in 2022
Nonfiction
Allen, Lenard – In the Great Stream: Imagining Churches of Christ in the Christian Tradition
Alter, Robert – The Art of Biblical Narrative
Beck, Richard – Hunting Magic Eels: Recovering an Enchanted Faith in a Skeptical Age
Brown, Brene – Dare to Lead: Brave Work, Tough Conversations, Whole Hearts
Byas, Jared – Love Matters More: How Fighting to Be Right Keeps us from Loving Like Jesus
Carty, Austin – The Pastor’s Bookshelf: Why Reading Matters for Ministry
Davis, Ellen F. – Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture: An Agrarian Reading of the Bible
Hart, David Bentley – That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation
Kleon, Austin – Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
Kugel, James L. – The Bible As It Was
Manning, Brennan – The Ragamuffin Gospel
Merritt, Jonathan – Learning to Speak God From Scratch: Why Sacred Words Are Vanishing – And How We Can Revive Them
Newport, Cal – Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
Rhoads, David M. – Mark as Story: An Introduction to the Narrative of a Gospel
Scarlata, Mark W. – A Journey Through the World of Leviticus: Holiness, Sacrifice, and the Rock Badger
Schlimm, Matthew Richard – 70 Hebrew Words Every Christian Should Know
Shroyer, Danielle – Original Blessing: Putting Sin In Its Rightful Place
Wright, N. T. – The Day the Revolution Began: Reconsidering the Meaning of Jesus’s Crucifixion
Wyckoff, Mallory – God Is
Devotionals
The 1662 Book of Common Prayer: International Edition
Every Moment Holy: Volume 1
The Message Devotional Bible
A Rhythm of Prayer
Fiction
Lewis, C. S. – Out of the Silent Planet & Peralandra
Vandermeer, Jeff – The Southern Reach Trilogy
Poetry
Gorman, Amanda – Call Us What We Carry
Loder, Ted – Guerrillas of Grace: Prayers for the Battle
Children’s Books
Evans, Rachel Held and Matthew Paul Turner – What Is God Like?
Kennedy, Natasha and Ben Myers – The Apostles’ Creed For All God’s Children
Pecinovsky, Teresa Kim and Khoi Le – Mother God
My Favorite Music in 2022
General
One by Sleeping At Last
Out Beyond Ideas by David Wilcox and Nance Pettit
Sticks & Stones by Kings Kaleidoscope
Victoria’s Secret by Jax
We Don’t Eat by James Vincent McMorrow
Worship
Another in the Fire by Hillsong United (and also the lofi version by ssxnt)
Be Thou My Vision by Celtic Worship
The Blessing by Elevation Worship
In Christ Alone by Celtic Worship
Come Thou Fount by Celtic Worship
Graves Into Gardens by Elevation Worship
Here Are My Hands by A New Liturgy
In Jesus Name (God of Possible) by Katy Nichole
The Lord’s Prayer by Greg LaFollette
Most Merciful God by Greg LaFollette and Taylor Leonhardt
Romans 11 (Doxology) by Andrew Peterson
Softly and Tenderly by Greg LaFollette and Alisa Turner
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