Most-read posts in 2011. Hope this blesses you through agreement and disagreement.
Leaving Church
Race
Writing
Hope
Heaven
Islam and Christianity
Rob Bell
U of M’s Fab Five
Kingdom Living
Malcolm and Martin

Music that moved me in 2011(music that captured me in 2011, not necessarily music released in 2011):
All I Wants is You (U2)
Let it Be (Beatles)
Yesterday (Beatles)
We Shall Overcome (Bruce Springsteen version)
Up in Flames (Coldplay)
Reign of Love (Coldplay)
Forgive them Father (Lauryn Hill)
If I Die Young (The Band Perry)
Miss Sarajevo (U2)
Love Rescue Me (U2)
Paradise (Coldplay)
Made in America [...]

A list of some of the books I read in 2011 (not necessarily books that were written in 2011). If you are hungry for good books, do some research on the ones you’ve not read on this list. It will be worth your time!
These fiction books moved me:
The Art of Fielding
The Sense of an Ending
Water [...]

I remember reading an article by a music critic in which she noted that most of the great musicians of the last 40 years share one thing in common–they come from broken homes. Those who have lived/currently live in Metro Detroit, are painfully aware of the way in which a broken family shaped the worldview [...]

Many writers and theologians have written recently about the necessity for Christians, and people of all faiths, to develop double vision. That is, when it comes to friends, strangers, and enemies, we must learn not simply, to look, but we must also cultivate the art of seeing. Jesus implored his disciples to do look and see [...]