Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
10 best books like Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art (Madeleine L'Engle): Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith, Bread and Wine: Readings for Lent and Easter, Mudhouse Sabbath, An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith, Watch for the Light: Readings for Advent and Christmas, The Artist's Rule: Nurturing Your Creative Soul with Monastic Wisdom, The Christian Imagination: The Practice of Faith in Literature and Writing, It Was Good: Making Art to the Glory of God, The Mind of the Maker, Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale
| Author | Kathleen Norris |
| ISBN | 1573227218 |
Struggling with her return to the Christian church after many years away, Kathleen Norris found it was the language of Christianity that most distanced her from faith. Words like "judgment," "faith," "dogma," "salvation," "sinner"—even "Christ"—formed what she called her "scary vocabulary,"...
| Author | C.S. Lewis |
| ISBN | 0874869269 |
Though Easter is often trivialized by the culture at large, it is still the high point of the religious calendar for millions of people around the world. And for most of them, there can be no Easter without Lent, the season that leads up to it.
A time for self-denial, soul-searching, and spiritual...
| Author | Lauren F. Winner |
| ISBN | 1557253447 |
In her groundbreaking book, Girl Meets God, Lauren Winner described her path from Orthodox Judaism to Christianity. Now, with characteristic wit, intellectual sharpness, and passion for authenticity, Winner illuminates eleven spiritual lessons that Judaism taught her. By reflecting deeply...
| Author | Barbara Brown Taylor |
| ISBN | 0061370460 |
In her critically acclaimed Leaving Church ("a beautiful, absorbing memoir."—Dallas Morning News), Barbara Brown Taylor wrote about leaving full-time ministry to become a professor, a decision that stretched the boundaries of her faith. Now, in her stunning follow-up, An Altar in the World,...
Though Christians the world over make yearly preparations for Lent, there s a conspicuous lack of good books for that other great spiritual season: Advent. All the same, this four-week period leading up to Christmas is making a comeback as growing numbers reject shopping-mall frenzy and examine the...
| Author | Christine Valters Paintner |
| ISBN | 1933495294 |
Summarized in the phrase "pray and work," "The Rule of St. Benedict" provides the inspiration for Christine Valters Paintner's newest exploration of the mutually nourishing relationship between contemplative practices and creative expression. Artists of all stripes and stations in lifepoets...
| Author | Leland Ryken |
| ISBN | 0877881235 |
This is an extraordinary treasure of thought-provoking reflections, by many of my favorite authors (including Lewis, Tolkien, and Chesterton). The sections on “Imagination, Beauty and Creativity” and “Myth and Fantasy” were particularly rich, at times enchanting. “In Praise of Stories”...
It Was Good: Making Art to the Glory of God
| Author | Ned Bustard |
| ISBN | 0978509714 |
This book is a collection of over twenty essays on issues relating to making art from a Christian perspective. The volume is filled with color artwork from Michelangelo to Makoto Fujimura and from Rembrandt to Tim Hawkinson.
From the back cover:
What does it mean to be a creative individual...
| Author | Dorothy L. Sayers |
| ISBN | 0060670770 |
This classic, with a new introduction by Madeleine L'Engle, is by turns an entrancing mediation on language; a piercing commentary on the nature of art and why so much of what we read, hear, and see falls short; and a brilliant examination of the fundamental tenets of Christianity. The Mind of the Maker...
| Author | Frederick Buechner |
| ISBN | 0060611561 |
Buechner examines the arc of the gospel using the well known genres of tragedy, comedy, and fairy tale--that is, bad news, good news, and transformation or fantasy. He begins with the tragedy of sin and the fallen world, pictured in Christ's shed tears over the death of Lazarus. From there, he movies...
| Author | Makoto Fujimura |
| ISBN | 1600063012 |
A quote from Makoto Fujimura:
"Beauty often resides in the peripheries of our lives."
This was a meditative book written by an artist whose studio was just blocks away from the twin towers that were toppled during the 9/11 attack. The trauma of that event could have discouraged any sensitive...
Breath for the Bones: Art, Imagination, and Spirit: Reflections on Creativity and Faith
| Author | Luci Shaw |
| ISBN | 0849903343 |
"The double question we must always ask is, 'How does faith inform art?' and 'How can art animate faith?'"
Imagination, appreciation of beauty, creativity: all of these qualities have been given to us by God. For the Christian artist, the drive to create something wonderful is also a means...
| Author | Andi Ashworth |
| ISBN | 0877880484 |
Because we are made in the image of a creatively caring God, we reflect his love and concern when we respond to the distinct calling to care for families, neighbors, friends, and communities. As society grows increasingly technological, isolated, and lonely, those who take their caregiving gifts...
| Author | Francis A. Schaeffer |
| ISBN | 0877844437 |
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...
| Author | Addie Zierman |
| ISBN | 1601425457 |
In the strange, us-versus-them Christian subculture of the 1990s, a person’s faith was measured by how many WWJD bracelets she wore and whether he had kissed dating goodbye.
Evangelical poster child Addie Zierman wore three bracelets asking what Jesus would do. She also led two Bible...
| Author | Annie Dillard |
| ISBN | 0060915439 |
In 1975 Annie Dillard took up residence on an island in Puget Sound in a wooded room furnished with "one enormous window, one cat, one spider and one person." For the next two years she asked herself questions about time, reality, sacrifice death, and the will of God. In Holy the Firm she writes about a moth...
| Author | W. David O. Taylor |
| ISBN | 0801071917 |
Think of your local church. Without art--music, song, dance, etc.--it would be a much poorer place. But if protestants have any vision for the arts, it tends to be a thin one. This unique book is an attempt to contribute to a robust, expansive vision for the church and the arts. Its specific aim is to show...
