Reading

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Books to Buy

Trash
Getting What You Came For – Peters
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What They Didn’t Teach You in Graduate School by Gray and Drew

Readings for ESN

The Two Tasks of the Christian Scholar
Charles Malik’s Christian Critique of the University
Decline of the Secular University
Outrageous Idea of Academic Faithfulness
Your Mind Matters
Finding God Beyond Harvard
The Idea of the University – Newman
Pelikan’s Response to Newman
Gill, David. The Opening of the Christian Mind
Marsden, George M. The Soul of the American University: From Protestant Establishment to Established Non-Belief.
Plantinga, Alvin. The Twin Pillars of Christian Scholarship.
Marsden – The Soul of the American University
Feagin – the Agony of Education
Moore – Culture Matters: A Call for Consensus on Christian Cultural Engagement
Willard & Moreland: Love God with All Your Mind
Stott: Christian Mission on the Modern World
I am Charlotte Simmons tom Wolfe
InterVarsity 2012
Composing a Life – Mary Catherine Bateson

To Read for Living in Community

Surprised by Hope
Wright’s academic book on the resurrection
Trash
Pursuit of God in the Company of Friends
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Life Together

To Read for Work

Getting Sent – Pete Sommer
Fabric of Faithfulness (2nd ed.)
Democratization of American Christianity
Professors Who Believe
The Tipping Point
That book about sticky ideas
Tom Grosh’s FC02 Paper
Steiner – Real Presences
Expecting Adam by Martha Beck
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Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else
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The Call

Novels to Read

Remaining Stegner books
Remaining Berry books
Trash
Chabon’s new detective novel

Nonfiction to Read

Reimagining Comics
The Danger of Raising Nice Kids
Polanyi – Pesonal Knowledge
Barzun: From Dawn to Decadence
Trash
Friendship: An Exposé (Epstein)

Theology to Read

Christ, Baptism, and the Lord’s Supper
Reason for Hope
Kierkegaard
MacMurray – The Self as Agent, Persons in Relation
Calvin – Institutes
Cistercians
The Mission of God
Philip Jenkins trilogy – The Next Christendom, etc.

Books to Read for This Land

Ellul – The Presence of the Kingdom
There Before Us
Edwards – Religious Affections
Marsden – Fundamentalism and Culture