I'm loving...

books i read and liked

"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me." -C.S. Lewis

Replace tea with coffee, and I'm sold. Here are some of my favorites in a variety of genres.

Faith:

1. Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller.

2. Searching for Sunday by Rachel Held Evans

3. Cold Tangerines by Shauna Niequist

4. Strangers At My Door by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

5. Everything Happens For a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved by Kate Bowler

6. Listening to Your Life by Frederick Buechner

Autobiography/Memoir:

1. Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed

2. If You Feel Too Much by Jamie Tworkowski

3. Bossypants by Tina Fey

4. When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

5. Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art by Madeleine L’Engle

Fiction:

1. Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult

2. Turtles All The Way Down by John Green

3. The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman

Non-fiction:

1. Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

2. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande

3. The Road Back to You: An Enneagram of Self- Discovery by Ian Morgan Cron and Suzanne Stabile

music to my ears

"Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common." -Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

I believe in the power of music to connect, heal, and inspire. Some of my favorite artists and groups:

• Mipso, Lucy Dacus, Dolly Parton, Dawes, The Avett Brothers, boygenius, Mike Mains & The Branches, John Mark McMillan, Taylor Swift (and so many more!)