Episode 19: 2020 Year-End Wrap-Up (with Sarah Arthur)

Jen is joined by three great guests for a live conversation (as well as an abundance of recorded contributions from other guests) for a wide-ranging and freewheeling conversation about our favorite books of 2020.C. Christopher Smith is the Founding Editor of The Englewood Review of Books and the author of a number of books, including most recently How the Body of Christ Talks, published by Brazos in 2019.John Wilson is the former editor of Books & Culture. He is now Contributing Editor for The Englewood Review of Books.Sarah Arthur is the author of a dozen books on the intersection of faith and great literature, including the award-winning A Light So Lovely: The Spiritual Legacy of Madeleine L’Engle. She served as co-director of the first-ever Madeleine L’Engle Conference “Walking on Water” at the end of 2019 and will co-lead the L’Engle Writing Retreat in northwest CT, tentatively rescheduled for November 2021. You can learn more about her work at her website saraharthur.info. Sarah is currently writing fiction and a preliminary fiction judge of the CT Book awardsBooks mentioned in this episode:A Light So Lovely: The Spiritual Legacy of Madeleine L'Engle by Sarah ArthurA Long Time Comin' by Robin PearsonKeys to Bonhoeffer's Haus: Exploring the World and Wisdom of Dietrich Bonhoeffer by Laura FabryckyDeacon King Kong by James McBrideThe Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBrideThe Good Lord Bird by James McBrideSex and the City of God: A Memoir of Love and Longing by Carolyn WeberRhythms for Life: Spiritual Practices for Who God Made You to Be by Alastair SterneCaste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel WilkersonWhat It's Like to be a Bird by David Allen SibleyEast of Eden by John SteinbeckSisters by Daisy JohnsonDorothy and Jack: The Transforming Friendship of Dorothy Sayers and C.S. Lewis by Gina DalfonzoThe Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism and the Road to Sexual Revolution by Carl TruemanThe Last Children of Mill Creek by Vivian GibsonMidwest Futures by Phil ChristmanGentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers by Dane OrtlundA Prayer for Orion: A Son's Addiction and a Mother's Love by Katherine JamesCan You See Anything Now? by Katherine JamesTranscendent Kingdom by Yaa GyasiKnow My Name: A Memoir by Chanel MillerEverything Sad Is Untrue: A True Story by Daniel NayeriOrdinary Hazards: A Memoir by Nikki GrimesClass Act by Jerry CraftWhen God Made the World by Matthew Paul TurnerJesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du MezA Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith by Timothy EganThe Uncontrollability of the World by Harmut RosaCharis in the World of Wonders: A Novel Set in Puritan New England by Marly YoumansLiving Things: Collected Poems by Anne PorterOne Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder by Brian DoyleThe Recovering: Intoxication and its Aftermath by Leslie JamisonLegacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance by Nikki GrimesArt & Faith: A Theology of Making by Makoto FujimuraHow to Fight Racism by Jemar TisbyA Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep by Tish Harrison WarrenAntiquities by Cynthia OzickA Burning in My Bones: The Authorized Biography of Eugene Peterson by Winn Collier