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Stuff Christian Hipsters Like

A sidebar to CT’s cover story on ‘Hipster Faith.’

This piece is a sidebar to Christianity Today‘s cover story on “Hipster Faith.”

Books by these Authors

C. S. Lewis, Walker Percy, Dorothy Sayers, Terry Eagleton, Donald Miller, Evelyn Underhill, Anne Lamott, George MacDonald, Shakespeare, Plato, Augustine, Annie Dillard, Martin Buber, Wendell Berry, Tim Keller, N. T. Wright, Fyodor Dostoevsky, A. W. Tozer, Flannery O’Connor, Jacques Ellul, Thomas Merton, Shusaku Endo, Lauren Winner, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Shane Claiborne, Henri Nouwen, Paul Tillich, Karl Barth, Dallas Willard, John Steinbeck, Jim Wallis, William Faulkner, Eugene Peterson, Thomas à Kempis, Emily Dickinson, Marilynne Robinson

Movies by these Directors

Wim Wenders, Sofia Coppola, Spike Jonze, The Coen Brothers, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Carl Dreyer, Robert Bresson, Yasujiro Ozu, Terrence Malick, Martin Scorsese, Krzysztof Kiesślowski, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Andrei Tarkovsky, Jane Campion, Wes Anderson, Paul Thomas, Anderson David Gordon Green, Gus Van Sant, Ingma Bergman,Jia Zhangke, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Alfonso Cuarón

Music by these Artists

Sufjan Stevens, Pedro the Lion, Radiohead, Coldplay, Damien Jurado, Bob Dylan, The National, My Brightest Diamond,Rosie Thomas, Denison Witmer, Bifrost Arts, U2, John Mark McMillan, Mutemath, Future of Forestry, Andrew Bird, Animal Collective, Over the Rhine, Hem, Vigilantes of Love, Larry Norman, Love Song, Jars of Clay, Low, Neko Case, Arcade Fire, Kanye West, Fleet Foxes, Band of Horses, Ron Sexsmith, She & Him, The Swell Season, Feist, Vampire Weekend, Joanna Newsom

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This piece is a sidebar to Christianity Today‘s cover story on “Hipster Faith.” CT also posted “The Tricky H-Word” and “Spotlight: Before We Were Hipsters” today.

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