Webinar: Formational Fiction Round-Up

Here are some resources mentioned in the Formational Fiction Round-Up: Stories That Shape Our Souls webcast conversation between Karen Swallow Prior, Patricia Raybon, Terry Glaspey, Justine Olawsky, and Carolyn Arends.

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• Book Of Love by The Monotones 

Resources Recommended by Karen Swallow Prior

• Books by Karen Swallow Prior

  • On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life Through Great Books

  • Booked: Literature in the Soul of Me

  • Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More? Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist

• Recommended Fiction

  • Gustav Flaubert: Madame Bovary

  • Charlotte Brontë, Karen Swallow Prior: Jane Eyre: A Guide to Reading and Reflecting

  • Flannery O’Connor — The Complete Stories
    • Recommended stories

      • Revelation

      • A Good Man is Hard to Find

  • George Orwell: 1984

  • Charles Dickens: Great Expectations

  • Marilynne Robinson: Housekeeping

  • Jane Austen, Karen Swallow Prior: Sense and Sensibility: A Guide to Reading and Reflecting

• Karen’s Website

• Karen on Social Media: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook

Resources recommended by Patricia Raybon

• Books by Patricia Raybon

  • All That Is Secret

  • My First White Friend: Reflections on Race, Love, and Forgiveness

  • I Told the Mountain to Move: Learning to Pray So Things Change

  • The One Year God’s Great Blessings Devotional

  • Undivided: A Muslim Daughter, Her Christian Mother, Their Path to Peace

• Recommended Fiction

  • Alan Paton: Cry, the Beloved Country

  • Khaled Hosseini: Kite Runner

  • William Kent Krueger: Ordinary Grace

  • G.K. Chesterton: The Innocence of Father Brown

  • Alex Haley: Roots

• Resources and additional recommended fiction:

  • Robert McKee: Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting

    • Quote: ​“Master storytellers give us the double-edged encounter we crave. First, the discovery of a world we do not know…Second, once inside this alien world, we find ourselves. Deep within these characters and their conflicts, we discover our own humanity. We go to the movies to enter a new, fascinating world, to inhabit vicariously another human being who at first seems so unlike us and yet at heart is like us, to live in a fictional reality that illuminates our daily reality. We do not wish to escape life but to find life, to use our minds in fresh, experimental ways, to flex our emotions, to enjoy, to learn, to add depth to our days. Story was written to foster films of archetypal power and beauty that will give the world this dual pleasure.” – Robert McKee, ​“Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting”

  • Kenneth Burke: Equipment for Living: The Literary Reviews of Kenneth Burke

  • Flannery O’Connor: A Prayer Journal

  • Victor Hugo: Les Miserables

  • Upton Sinclair: The Jungle

  • Willa Cather: My Antonia

  • Sandra Cisneros: Caramelo

  • Books by Ernest J Gaines

  • Books by Alice Walker

• Patricia’s Website

• Patricia on Social Media: Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook

Resources recommended by Terry Glaspey

• Books by Terry Glaspey

  • Discovering God through the Arts: How We Can Grow Closer to God by Appreciating Beauty & Creativity

  • 75 Masterpieces Every Christian Should Know: The Fascinating Stories Behind Great Works of Art, Literature, Music, and Film

  • Not a Tame Lion: The Spiritual Legacy of C. S. Lewis and the Chronicles of Narnia

• Recommended Fiction

  • Walker Percy: The Second Coming: A Novel 

  • Frederick Buechner: Godric: A Novel

  • Angie Thomas: The Hate U Give

  • Marilynne Robinson: Gilead

  • Susan Howatch: Glittering Images

• Resources
  • Walker Percy Quote from Signposts in a Strange Land: Essays:

    • “The old words, God, grace, sin, redemption, which used to signify as within a viable semiotic system, now tend to be either exhausted, worn slick as poker chips and signifying as little, or else are heard as the almost random noise of radio and TV preachers. The very word ​“Christian” is not good news to most readers.”

• Terry’s Website

Resources mentioned by Justine Olawsky

Recommended Fiction:

• Andrew Klavan’s Another Kingdom Trilogy

  • Another Kingdom

  • The Nightmare Feast

  • The Emperor’s Sword
    
    

• C.S. Lewis’s Space (Ransom) Trilogy

  • Out of the Silent Planet

  • Perelandra

  • That Hideous Strength

• G.K. Chesterton: The Ball and the Cross

• Jane Austen: Mansfield Park

• L.M. Montgomery: The Emily Trilogy

Resources and additional recommended fiction:

• Andrew Klavan: The Great Good Thing: A Secular Jew Comes to Faith in Christ

• Dante Alighieri: The Divine Comedy

• David Downing Essays on Lewis’s Space (Ransom) Trilogy

  • Out of the Silent Planet

  • Perelandra

  • That Hideous Strength

• Michael Ward: Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis

• Sir David Lyndsay: The Building of the Tower of Babel, and Confusion of Tongues

  • “The shadow of that hideous strength, six miles and more it is of length”

  • The six-mile shadow refers to the shadow cast by the Tower of Babel recounted in Genesis 11:4 – 9. 

• Alisdair MacIntyre: After Virtue: A Study of Moral Theory

• R.J. Snell: Acedia and Its Discontents: Metaphysical Boredom in an Empire of Desire

• Robert Cardinal Sarah: The Day is Now Far Spent

• G.K. Chesterton:

  • The Complete Father Brown Stories

  • The Man Who Was Thursday

  • The Everlasting Man

• The Society of Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Justine Olawsky on Goodreads

Other Resources Mentioned in the Webinar and Chat:

The resources mentioned below have not been reviewed or endorsed by Renovaré. 

• Carolyn Arends Songs: All Flame, Go with God, and Seize The Day

• Elizabeth Goudge: The Dean’s Watch

• Ashley Blooms: Every Bone a Prayer

• Bryce Courtenay: The Power of One

• Sharon Garlough Brown: Sensible Shoes: A Story about the Spiritual Journey

• PBS Documentary about Flannery O’Connor

• William Kent Krueger: This Tender Land

• R. Thomas Ashbrook: Mansions of the Heart: Exploring the Seven Stages of Spiritual Growth

• Andrew Peterson Song: Lay me Down

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