The Joy of Making - Conference Reads!

The Joy of Making is just around the corner! To get us all pondering what it means to pursue the joy of making (and more!), we've started collecting some recommended reads related to either particular sessions at the conference or the general theme of beauty, artistry, and creativity, in a digital age. Let's continue building this list together in the coming months, and we hope to see you in July!

Books by Speakers

• Making A Life: Working by Hand and Discovering the Life You Were Meant to Live by Melanie Falick
• Beauty Chasers by Timothy Willard
• The Inherent Generosity Within a Charlotte Mason Education by Elizabeth Millar
• A Place to Belong by Amber O’Neal Johnston
• A Feast of Living Ideas in a World of Bytes by Emily Bowyer and Brynn Bowyer
• Charlotte Mason's Great Recognition by Deani Van Pelt and Camille Malucci
• Narration and Retelling by Shannon Whiteside
• Relational Educational Leadership by Carroll Smith with John Thorley
• Students as Persons by Deani Van Pelt and Jen Spencer

Recommended Books

• Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work by Matthew B. Crawford
• Adorning the Dark: Thoughts on Community, Calling, and the Mystery of Making by Andrew Peterson
• Walking on Water: Reflections of Faith and Art by Madeleine L’Engle
• Culture Care: Reconnecting with Beauty for Our Common Life by Makoto Fujimora
• Art + Faith: A Theology of Making by Makoto Fujimora
• Rembrandt in the Wind: Learning to Love Art Through the Eyes of Faith by Russ Ramsey 
• Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri
• A Reverence for Wood by Eric Sloane
• The Little Way of Saint Thérèse Lisieux published by the Catholic Truth Society
• A Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of Saint Thérèse Lisieux translated by Thomas N. Taylor, edited by Scott L. Smith
• All Along You Were Blooming by Morgan Harper Nichols
• This is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets by Kwame Alexander
• Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat
• Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge
• The Enabled Life by Ron McCloughry 
• The Explosive Child by Ross Greene
• Different by Sally Clarkson
• Tech-wise Family by Andy Crouch
• Marguerite Makes a Book by Bruce Robertson