Recommended Reads

Books are listed in no particular order. See my Wish List.

Fiction/Literature:

Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold by C.S. Lewis

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Devotional Reading:

The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God by Dallas Willard

Renovation of the Heart: Putting on the Character of Christ by Dallas Willard

God in the Dark: The Assurance of Faith Beyond a Shadow of Doubt by Os Guinness

The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism by Timothy Keller

Breaking the Idols of Your Heart: How to Navigate the Temptations of Life by Dan B. Allender and Tremper Longman III

Repenting of Religion: Turning from Judgment to the Love of God by Gregory A. Boyd

Love is Stronger Than Death by Peter J. Kreeft

Lament for a Son by Nicholas Wolterstorff

Theological Studies:

The Nature of the Atonement: Four Views edited by James Beilby and Paul R. Eddy

Across the Spectrum: Understanding Issues in Evangelical Theology by Gregory A. Boyd and Paul R. Eddy

Original Sin: A Cultural History by Alan Jacobs

Evil and the Justice of God by N T Wright

The Story of Christian Theology: Twenty Centuries of Tradition & Reform by Roger Olson

The Mosaic of Christian Belief: Twenty Centuries of Unity & Diversity by Roger Olson

God’s Judgments: Interpreting History and the Christian Faith by Steven J. Keillor

Discovering Biblical Equality: Complementarity Without Hierarchy edited by Ronald W. Pierce, Rebecca Merrill Groothuis, and Gordon D. Fee

Women Caught in the Conflict: The Culture War Between Traditionalism and Feminism by Rebecca Merrill Groothuis

The Race Set Before Us: A Biblical Theology of Perseverance & Assurance by Thomas R. Schreiner and Ardel B. Caneday

Above All Earthly Pow’rs: Christ in a Postmodern World by David F Wells

History & Biography:

The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis by Alan Jacobs

Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Season by Jonathan Eig

Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler’s Olympics by Jeremy Schaap

Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography by David Michaelis

Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates that Defined America by Allen C. Guelzo

Comrades!: A History of World Communism by Robert Service

In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity by Daniel Kevles

From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in Germany by Richard Weikart

John Calvin: A Pilgrim’s Life by Herman J. Selderhuis

Philosophy:

On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt

On Truth by Harry G. Frankfurt

God?: A Debate between a Christian and an Atheist (Point/Counterpoint Series (Oxford, England) by William Lane Craig and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong

Provocations: Spiritual Writings by Soren Kierkegaard, Charles E Moore (Editor)

The Sickness Unto Death by Soren Kierkegaard

Politics, Social Issues, Economics, Ect:

The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality by Walter Benn Michaels

Weeping in the Playtime of Others: America’s Incarcerated Children by Kenneth Wooden

Political Visions & Illusions: A Survey and Christian Critique of Contemporary Ideologies by David T. Koyzis