Fodder for Thought
The fodder for a self-professing information glutton named debbie. Last updated December 2021.
Books
Non-Fiction
- Just Enough is Plenty, Samuel Alexander
- Sex, Economy, Freedom and Community, Wendell Berry
- The Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Letters in Prison, Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Life Together, Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Infinite in All Directions, Freeman Dyson
- Freedom, Love, and Power, Jacques Ellul
- The Meaning of the City, Jacques Ellul
- Money and Power, Jacques Ellul
- Perspectives of Our Time, Jacques Ellul
- The Art of Loving, Erich Fromm
- The Present Crisis of Psychoanalysis, Erich Fromm
- Psychoanalysis and Religion, Erich Fromm
- Creation and Recreation, Northrop Frye
- Plants have so much to give us, All we have to do is ask, Mary Siisip Geniusz
- The Prophet, Khalil Gibran
- Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, Robin Wall Kimmerer
- The Truth About Stories, Thomas King
- This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs The Climate, Naomi Klein
- A Grief Observed, C. S. Lewis
- The Hidden Forest, Jon R. Luoma
- Sacred Earth, Sacred Community: Jubilee, Ecology and Aboriginal Peoples, John Mihevc
- The Return of the Prodigal Son, Henri Nouwen
- Planting in a Post-Wild World, Thomas Rainer and Claudia West
- The Enneagram, Richard Rohr, Andreas Ebert
- Flight to Arras, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture, J. Russell Smith
- Theology and Culture, Paul Tillich
- The Mushroom and the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
- Permaculture in a Nutshell, Patrick Whitefield
- Stolen Continents: Conquest and Resistance in the Americas, Ronald Wright
Essays
- The Joy of Sales Resistance, Wendell Berry
- Friendship & Resistance - Essays on Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Eberhard Bethge
- Imagining the Future: Notes from the frontier, Samuel Alexander, Bronwyn Adcock
- Abolition of Man, C. S. Lewis
- Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem, Erich Fromm
Fiction
Novels
- The Book of Mirdad, Mikha'il Na'ima
- Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterson
- Green Grass Running Water, Thomas King
- The Great Divorce, C. S. Lewis
- The Pilgrim's Regress, C. S. Lewis
- Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis
- Til We Have Faces, C. S. Lewis
- If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, Jon McGregor
- Book Thief, Markus Zusak
Short Stories
- Labyrinths, Jorge Luis Borges
- Leaf By Niggle, J. R. R. Tolkien
Comics
- Goliath, Tom Gauld
- Everyone is an aliebn when you're an aliebn too, Jonathan Sun
- Beautiful Darkness, Fabien Vehlmann and Kerascoët
Podcasts
Subscribed
- 99% invisible
exploring the impact of design and architecture in daily life - The Anthropocene Reviewed
different facets of the human-centered planted, reviewed - The Atlantic
stories from the Atlantic read in podcast form - The Bible for Normal People
conversations about the Bible - The Bible Project
Bible interpretation according to original context made accessible - CANADALAND
Canadian media criticism - COMMONS
airing Canada's dirty laundry - The Current
Canadian news and issues - Dear Hank and John
an advice podcast that is always self-depreciating and sometimes has actually good advice - Historium
strange, obscure, or otherwise interesting stories from history - Ideas
deep dive into topics on culture, arts, science and technology - Invisibilia
on human psychology, assumptions, ideas, emotions - More Perfect
accessible approach to learning about the US Supreme Court - The Moth
wholesome story telling - The New York Times - The Daily
- The New Yorker Radio Hour
- On Being
interviews on spirituality, wisdom, art, and science - Paging Dr. Nerdlove
crash course on feminism masked as dating advice for nerds - Peter Rollins - The Archive
a philosopher overturning traditional notions of religion - Philosophize This!
philosophy for lay-people - Planet Money
explaining the economy through stories related to money - Radiolab
stories to introduce and address topics on science and philosophy - Reconstruct
overcoming disillusionment with traditional Christianity - Reply All
stories illustrating the effect of the internet on modern life - Reveal
investigative journalism on inequality, sustainability, accountability - Revisionist History
misunderstood or overlooked history - Rough Translation
stories about the cross-talk between cultures - S-Town
unconventional investigative journalism - Spark
technology and related issues - Tapestry
interviews on spirituality - Thinking Allowed
new research on how society works - The Uncertain Hour
a short, informative series on poverty in America - Under the Influence
topical compilations of stories about marketing, culture, and human psychology
Recommended Episodes
Money and Economics
- Story: God and Money, The Bible Project Podcast
- Christopher Hedges: Farewell America, Ideas
- The End of Capitalism?, Ideas
- The Illusion of Money, Ideas
- Platform Capitalism, digital technology and the future of work, Ideas
- Precarious Work, Ideas
- WWCD?, Love+Radio
- Anand Giridharadas: When the Market is Our Only Language, On Being
- Full Faith and Credit, On the Media
- The C Word, Peter Rollins - The Archive
- The Free Food Market, Planet Money
- The One-Page Plan To Fix Global Warming, Planet Money
- Planet Money Buys Oil, Planet Money
- Investing in Regeneration, Regenerative Skills
- Can economies thrive without growth?, RSA Radio
- The New Economy, Thinking Allowed
Sociopolitical
- Border Wall, 99% Invisible
- Right to Roam, 99% Invisible
- Canada's International Cash Cows, Canadaland
- Church Burnings & Culture War Bullshit, Canadaland
- Why we should eat more like fish, The Current
- Lytton Burns, The Documentary Podcast
- The Anatomy of Tyranny, Ideas
- Conservative with age: Why your political stripes change over time, Ideas
- How elite do-gooders 'fixing' the world are part of the problem, Ideas
- Woke Washing: the problem with 'branding' social movements, Ideas
- Utopian Dinner Table: How to feed the world in 100 years, Ideas
- Yuval Harari: Hacking Humanity, Ideas
- World on Fire with Naomi Klein, Jacobin Radio
- Black and White: Racism in America, The Liturgists
- LGBTQ, The Liturgists
- Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, The Liturgists
- Rice Bunny: The Me Too Movement Comes to China, Note to Self
- Who is the Bad Art Friend? Why Not Both?, On The Media
- You're Racist! No, I Am! The Sadomasochistic Relationship between Supremacism and Orientalism, Peter Rollins - The Archive
- The Frankfurt School, Philosophize This!
- John Rawls - A Theory of Justice, Philosophize This!
- New Jersey Bails Out, Planet Money
- Reparations in New Zealand, Planet Money
- Six Policies Economists Love (And Politicians Hate), Planet Money
- Yes In My Backyard, Planet Money
- Border Trilogy, Radiolab
- The Founder, Reply All
- On the Inside, Reply All
- Long Distance, Reply All
- All work. No pay. Life at rehab work camp., Reveal
- Flood They Neighbor: Who stays dry and who decides, Reveal
- The red line: Racial disparities in lending, Reveal
- Timber Wars, Reveal
- The Little Mermaid, Revisionist History
- The Apology Broker, Rough Translation
- Who pays for Facebook's free internet?, Spark
- Why so many of us are hustling past exhaustion, Tapestry
- Diversity in the Tiny House Movement, Tiny House Podcast
Family and Society
- The Help Yourself City, 99% Invisible
- Raccoon Resistance, 99% Invisible
- Raising Elaan, The Current
- Surrogate mother gives birth to twins, The Current
- The Great Grave Robbery, Historium
- The Problem with the Solution, Invisibilia
- Points of Egress, Love + Radio
- Adoption, a Plane Crash and a Busload of Lutherans, The Moth
- Millennial Writers Reflect on a Generation's Despair, The New Yorker
- Who really has the power in dating?, Paging Dr. Nerdlove
- Problem or Symptom, Peter Rollins - The Archive
- Birthstory, Radiolab
- The Cathedral, Radiolab
- The Queen of Dying, Radiolab
- American Surrogates, Rough Translation
- Home/Front, Rough Translation
- Dead Mom Talking, The Sunday Edition
- The Person I've Become, The Sunday Edition
- Why Some PhDs are quitting academia for unconventional jobs, The Sunday Edition
- Friends, Not Lovers, Tapestry
- Margaret Atwood and Leah Kostamo on Utopia and Dystopia, Tapestry
- Reimagining Work, Tapestry
- What to expect when you're expecting... Climate Change, Tapestry
- When the biological clock gets loud: three perspectives on the pressure to have kids, Tapestry
Science and Technology
- On Beeing, 99% Invisible
- Chindogu, 99% Invisible
- Missing the Bus, 99% Invisible
- Speech Bubbles: Understanding Comics with Scott McCloud, 99% Invisible
- Thermal Delight, 99% Invisible
- The Vault, 99% invisible
- How Will We Feed the New Global Middle Class?, The Atlantic
- Heat waves are damaging the beetle sperm, and that could be bad news for the entire planet, The Current
- What Elon Musk's past could tell us about his vision of the future, The Current
- The Chemistry of Mortality, Historium
- The Real World of Technology, Ursula Franklin, Ideas
- Raising Devendra, Invisibilia
- Pauline Boss -- Navigating Loss without Closure, On Being
- Fork the Government, Planet Money
- P is for Phosphorus, Planet Money
- Trees have their own fungal internet, Quirks and Quarks
- Cellmates, Radiolab
- Countercultures and Computing, Spark
- Smart cities, serendipitous discovery, whale songs, and more, Spark
- Canadian scientist builds bridges to reach climate change skeptics like Trump, The Sunday Edition
- Trees really do talk to each other, The Sunday Edition
Wisdom and Spirituality
- The Dying Experience -- Myth and Answers, The Art of Manliness
- Evangelicals and the Problem of the Old Testament, The Bible for Normal People
- Disability Theology is for Everyone, The Bible for Normal People
- Following Jesus as a Native Traditionalist, The Bible for Normal People
- How "How the Bible Actually Works" Works, The Bible for Normal People
- Jesus, Judaism, and Christianity, The Bible for Normal People
- Re-imagining Sacred Speech, The Bible for Normal People
- Resurrecting the Bible in the Mainline Church, The Bible for Normal People
- Social Justice and the Radical Gospel, The Bible for Normal People
- Ecclesiastes, The Bible Project Podcast
- God or gods, The Bible Project Podcast
- Job: Suffering Well, The Bible Project Podcast
- Death Becomes Us, Ideas
- The Scapegoat: The Ideas of Rene Girard, Ideas
- The Mindfulness Myth, Intelligence Squared
- "Majority World" Christians and How They Help Us, Depolarize
- Embodiment, The Liturgists
- Philosophy and Radical Theology, The Liturgists
- Of Grief and Reverence, A New and Ancient Story
- Holy Envy, On Being
- Krista Tippett -- The Mystery and Art of Living, On Being
- Naomi Shihab Nye -- Your Life is a Poem, On Being
- Walter Brueggemann -- The Prophetic Imagination, On Being
- Deconstruction vs. Denomination, Peter Rollins - The Archive
- Embracing the Lack, Peter Rollins - The Archive
- From Enemy to Neighbor, Peter Rollins - The Archive
- In the World, But Not of It, Peter Rollins - The Archive
- Erich Fromm on Love, Philosophize This!
- Michel Foucault, Philosophize This!
- The Meaningful Man, The Sunday Edition
- Finding Hope in the Climate Crisis, Tapestry
- Mystical Landscapes, Tapestry
Biography
- Borges' Buenos Aires, Ideas
- The Grand Dame of Green Design: Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, Ideas
- The Orwell Tapes, Ideas
Video
Alternative Living
Movies
- Cartoon Saloon
- Breadwinner
- Secret of the Kells
- Song of the Sea
- Wolfwalkers
- Ghibli
- The Grave of the Fireflies
- Howl's Moving Castle
- Nausicaa
- Princess Mononoke
- The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
- Whipser of the Heart
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
- The Little Prince
- Parasite
- Pixar
- How to Train Your Dragon
- Soul
- Up
- Wall-E
TV
- The Expanse
- Firefly
- Kingdom
- The Good Place
- The Office
- WandaVision
Anime/Animation
- Attack on Titan
- Avatar the Last Airbender
- Cowboy Bebop
- Fullmetal Alchemist
- Neon Genesis Evangelion
- Over the Garden Wall
- Steven Universe
Web
Resources
- World Community Grid
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