On the heels of yesterday’s CS Lewis poem, and in light of my utter reverence for Lewis, I feel it in order to make today’s top 5 list a compilation of my favorite “Christian/spiritual” writers. This is a tough list to compile, as there are so many writers who have influenced my faith and my thinking (many of them in ways I’m likely not aware of).
After considerable thought, though, I have put together this list:
- CS Lewis
- Don Miller (More than any book I’ve ever read, Blue Like Jazz reshaped my life and my thinking)
- Anne Lamott (To me, Lamott is the pioneer of the grittier, edgier, more authentic shape today’s Christian writing has taken).
- Tim Keller (I have re-read portions of The Reason For God so many times the ink of my copy has begun smudging and fading)
- Thomas Merton (Seven Storey Mountain is the most exquisitively written spiritual memoir in existence)
Again, this was an incredibly difficult list for me to compile. If asked on a different day, I would quite possible have an entirely different list (although Lewis and Miller would remain in the 1 and 2 slots). Folks like Watchman Nee, Rob Bell, Tony Campolo, Jim Wallis, Rick Warren, Brian McLaren, Shane Claiborne, Cathleen Falsani, Susan Isaacs, Pete Rollins, Kathleen Norris, and Susan Isaacs (and likely, a handful of others who aren’t immediately jumping to mind) would all be under consideration on any given day.
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