Beauty and Resistance
Spiritual Rhythms for Formation and Repair

I was really grateful for Jonathan’s perspective. He’s introspective and vulnerable about how his productivity mindset has hurt him, and come through with practical tools that help us live lives that can encapsulate the best of both worlds - Beauty and Resistance. Using planning days, traditions, rhy......more

Jonathan P. Walton’s Beauty and Resistance is a thoughtful and often compelling exploration of how beauty, spirituality, and moral imagination sustain people engaged in the work of resistance. I appreciated Walton’s pastoral tone and his deep concern for the spiritual and mental health of those stri......more

This is a book I didn’t want to end. Walton’s self-disclosure is courageous and always in service of illustrating his point. He wants readers to grasp these simple yet challenging truths about Christian life: first, God calls us to higher purposes than achievement and acquisition, and our choice to......more

Walton has written an honest, vulnerable, insightful book that deserves to be widely read. He bases his thesis on 4 essential rhythms that will allow us to flourish and continue to resist systemic oppression: rest, restore, resist, repeat. I appreciated many things about this book, but perhaps #1 is......more

It’s nice in here. It’s rough out there. This is the kind of life many of us have experienced, and it’s hard to keep it all in balance. In Beauty + Resistance: spiritual rhythms for formation and repair (galley received as part of early review program), Jonathan P. Walton suggests some ways in which......more