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For the Beauty of the Church: Casting a Vision for the Arts

10 best books like For the Beauty of the Church: Casting a Vision for the Arts (W. David O. Taylor): Winnie-the-Pooh, A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, My Name Is Asher Lev, Confessions, The House at Pooh Corner, Till We Have Faces, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art, Orthodoxy, The Code of the Woosters

Winnie-the-Pooh
AuthorA.A. Milne
ISBN0525467564
The Bear of Very Little Brain and his friends from the Hundred Acre Wood have delighted generations of readers since Winnie-the-Pooh was first published in 1926.

Back by popular demand, the four full-color gift editions of the original Pooh classics are available again. These elegant books,...
A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael
AuthorElisabeth Elliot
ISBN0800730895
A Chance to Die is a vibrant portrayal of Amy Carmichael, an Irish missionary and writer who spent fifty-three years in south India without furlough. There she became known as ''Amma,'' or ''mother,'' as she founded the Dohnavur Fellowship, a refuge for underprivileged children. Amy's life of obedience...
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
AuthorAnne Lamott
ISBN0385480016
"Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write. [It] was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and...
My Name Is Asher Lev
AuthorChaim Potok
ISBN1400031044
Asher Lev is a Ladover Hasid who keeps kosher, prays three times a day and believes in the Ribbono Shel Olom, the Master of the Universe. Asher Lev is an artist who is compulsively driven to render the world he sees and feels even when it leads him to blasphemy. In this stirring and often visionary novel,...
Confessions
AuthorAugustine of Hippo
ISBN0192833723
Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literature. Written in the author's early forties in the last years of the fourth century A.D. and during his first years as a bishop, they reflect on his life and on the activity of remembering and interpreting...
The House at Pooh Corner
AuthorA.A. Milne
ISBN0525444440
Winnie-the-Pooh, the Best Bear in All the World, has long been adored by readers young and old. In this beautiful full-color gift edition of "The House at Pooh Corner, " Ernest H. Shepard's classic illustrations have been painstakingly hand-colored. An exquisite volume and the perfect gift for any...
Till We Have Faces
AuthorC.S. Lewis
In this timeless tale of two mortal princesses- one beautiful and one unattractive- C.S. Lewis reworks the classical myth of Cupid and Psyche into an enduring piece of contemporary fiction. This is the story of Orual, Psyche's embittered and ugly older sister, who posessively and harmfully loves...
Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
AuthorMadeleine L'Engle
In this classic book, Madeleine L'Engle addresses the questions, What makes art Christian? What does it mean to be a Christian artist? What is the relationship between faith and art? Through L'Engle's beautiful and insightful essay, readers will find themselves called to what the author views as...
Orthodoxy
AuthorG.K. Chesterton
This book is meant to be a companion to "Heretics," and to put the positive side in addition to the negative. Many critics complained of the book because it merely criticised current philosophies without offering any alternative philosophy. This book is an attempt to answer the challenge. It is the...
The Code of the Woosters
AuthorP.G. Wodehouse
ISBN0393339815
No one weaves a plot like Wodehouse. Also, if you have a cow creamer, guard it with your life.

The 2012 re-read:
Aunt Dahlia dispatches Bertie to Totleigh Towers to purlorn a silver cow creamer coveted by his uncle Tom from Sir Watkyn Basset. Unfortunately, Bertie has his work cut out for...
Lila
AuthorMarilynne Robinson
ISBN0374187614
Marilynne Robinson, one of the greatest novelists of our time, returns to the town of Gilead in an unforgettable story of a girlhood lived on the fringes of society in fear, awe, and wonder.

Lila, homeless and alone after years of roaming the countryside, steps inside a small-town Iowa church...
The Noise of Time
AuthorJulian Barnes
ISBN1910702609
A compact masterpiece dedicated to the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich: Julian Barnes’s first novel since his best-selling, Man Booker Prize–winning The Sense of an Ending.

In 1936, Shostakovitch, just thirty, fears for his livelihood and his life. Stalin, hitherto a distant...
Art & the Bible
AuthorFrancis A. Schaeffer
ISBN0877844437
The lordship of Christ should include an interest in the arts," writes Francis Schaeffer. "A Christian should use these arts to the glory of God, not just as tracts, mind you, but as things of beauty to the praise of God." Many Christians, wary of creating graven images, have steered clear of artistic...
Leavings
AuthorWendell Berry
ISBN1582435340
No one writes like Wendell Berry. Whether essay, novel, story, or poem, his inimitable voice rings true, as natural as the land he has farmed in Kentucky for over 40 years.

Following the widely praised Given, this new collection offers a masterful blend of epigrams, elegies, lyrics, and letters,...
7 Myths about Singleness
AuthorSam Allberry
ISBN1433561522
If marriage shows us the shape of the gospel, singleness shows us its sufficiency.

Much of what we commonly assume about singleness--that it is primarily about the absence of good things like intimacy, family, or meaningful ministry--is either flat-out untrue or, at the very least, shouldn't...
All That's Good: Recovering the Lost Art of Discernment
AuthorHannah Anderson
ISBN0802418554
“And God saw that it was good…”

Look out over the world today, it seems a far cry from God’s original declaration. Pain, conflict, and uncertainty dominate the headlines. Our daily lives are noisy and chaotic—filled with too much information and too little wisdom. No wonder we often...
A Blossom in the Desert
AuthorMiriam Huffman Rockness
ISBN1572932562
In Lilias Trotter's biography, A Passion for the Impossible, you learned that she became a missionary in Algeria during the Victorian era, and, as a British woman, faced seemingly insurmountable challenges sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ. 

You also learned that she was one of England's...
Keep a Quiet Heart
AuthorElisabeth Elliot
ISBN0800759907
Peace and quiet--to many of us they're just words. Somehow we have allowed the frenetic pace of life to rob us of the quiet, restful moments with God we so desperately need. Keep a Quiet Heart features the rich devotional musings of one of America's favorite authors and points the way to a deep experience...
Where I End: A Story of Tragedy, Truth, and Rebellious Hope
AuthorKatherine Elizabeth Clark
ISBN0802416837
“Those who are hidden in Jesus, though they suffer, will discover a more beautiful ending—or should I say beginning—than they ever could imagine.”

Katherine Clark was just an average wife and mother with two young children when she was in a tragic playground accident in late May...
Parables of the Cross
AuthorI. Lilias Trotter
Isabella Lilias Trotter (1853-1928) was an artist and a missionary for over 38 years to the Muslims of Algeria. John Ruskin, the famous art critic, didn't believe that ladies could paint before he met Lilias, he changed his mind after he met her, and believed that if she would give her life to painting...
The Inner Voice of Love
AuthorHenri J.M. Nouwen
ISBN0385483481
This is Henri Nouwen's "secret journal." It was  written during the most difficult period of his life, when he suddenly lost his self-esteem,  his energy to live and work, his sense of being loved, even his hope in God. Although he experienced excruciating anguish and despair, he was still able...
The Great Divorce
AuthorC.S. Lewis
Alternative cover for ISBN: 978-0-00-746123-3

C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce is a classic Christian allegorical tale about a bus ride from hell to heaven. An extraordinary meditation upon good and evil, grace and judgment, Lewis’s revolutionary idea in the The Great Divorce is that...
1920s
AuthorNick Yapp
ISBN3833110791
They called it the Jazz Age but it was probably crazier than any of the razzmatazz that Jelly Roll Morton or Bix Beiderbecke produced. By 1929 and the spectacular Wall Street crash, the world had already changed so much during the preceding decade and much of that change is illustrated within these pages.

After...
Delighting in the Trinity: An Introduction to the Christian Faith
AuthorMichael Reeves
ISBN0830839836
In this brief and winsome book, Michael Reeves presents an introduction to the Christian faith that is rooted in the triune God. He takes cues from preachers and teachers down through the ages, setting key doctrines of creation, the person and work of Christ, and life in the Spirit into a simple framework...
The Enthusiast's Guide to Night and Low-Light Photography: 50 Photographic Principles You Need to Know
AuthorAlan Hess
ISBN1681982420
If you're a passionate photographer and you're ready to take your work to the next level, The Enthusiast's Guide book series was created just for you. Whether you're diving head first into a new topic or exploring a classic theme, Enthusiast's Guides are designed to help you quickly learn more about...
Unceasing Worship: Biblical Perspectives on Worship and the Arts
AuthorHarold M. Best
ISBN0830832297
Discerning Reader's Best Book of 2003We are not created to worship. Nor are we created for worship. We are created worshiping. Too often Christians have only thought of worship in terms of particular musical styles or liturgical formats. But a proper view of worship is far larger than what takes place...
Tim Cook: The Genius Who Took Apple to the Next Level
AuthorLeander Kahney
ISBN0525537600
Journalist Leander Kahney reveals how CEO Tim Cook has led Apple to astronomical success after the death of Steve Jobs in 2011.

The death of Steve Jobs left a gaping void at one of the most innovative companies of all time. Jobs wasn't merely Apple's iconic founder and CEO; he was the living...
Who Gets to Narrate the World?: Contending for the Christian Story in an Age of Rivals
AuthorRobert E. Webber
ISBN0830834818
Who gets to narrate the world?

The late Robert Webber believed this question to be the most pressing issue of our time. Christianity in America, he preached, will not survive if Christians are not rooted in and informed by the uniquely Christian story that is the gospel of Jesus Christ.

This...
The Music Architect: Blueprints for Engaging Worshipers in Song
AuthorConstance M. Cherry
ISBN0801099684
Guidance for Leaders Seeking a Richer Way to Employ Worship Music

Worship expert Constance Cherry offers comprehensive guidance to Christian leaders seeking a deeper, richer way to employ worship music in engaging ways for twenty-first-century worshipers. Following Cherry's successful...
The Biblical Psalms in Christian Worship: A Brief Introduction and Guide to Resources
AuthorJohn D. Witvliet
ISBN0802807674
In this concise yet comprehensive guide to using and praying the psalms in worship services, John Witvliet first offers summary of key biblical-theological themes related to the practice of worship, and he continues with reflections on every step in the process of preparing to use the psalms in worship,...
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