Books

Reading List on Faith, Vocation, and Culture

Andi Ashworth
Real Love for Real Life: The Art and Work of Caring 

Hannah Arendt
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil 

Augustine
*Confessions
The Enchiridion on Faith, Hope, and Love 

Robert Bellah et. al,
Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life 

Wendell Berry
Sex, Economy, Freedom, Community
A Timbered Choir
That Distant Land 

Harry Blamires
The Christian Mind

Bono
Bono in Conversation with Michka Assayas

John Bunyan
Pilgrim’s Progress 

G. K. Chesterton
Orthodoxy 

Darrell Cosden
The Heavenly Good of Earthly Work 

Steven Garber
The Fabric of Faithfulness 

Brian Godawa
Hollywood Worldviews: Watching Films with Wisdom and Discernment

Os Guinness
The Call 

Colin Gunton
The One, the Three and the Many 

Victor Hugo
*Les Miserables 

David Lyle Jeffrey, ed.
English Spirituality in the Time of Wesley 

Abraham Kuyper
Lectures on Calvinism
*To Be Near Unto God

Brother Lawrence
The Practice of the Presence of God

C. S. Lewis
Mere Christianity
The Abolition of Man
That Hideous Strength 

Tom Nelson
Work Matters 

Lesslie Newbigin
The Gospel in a Pluralist Society
Signs Amid the Rubble

Henri Nouwen
Life of the Beloved 

John Owen
Sin and Temptation 

J. I. Packer
*Knowing God 

J. I. Packer and Loren Wilkinson, ed.
Alive to God: Studies in Spirituality 

William Placher
Callings: Twenty Centuries of Christian Wisdom on Vocation 

Cornelius Plantinga
Engaging God’s World 

Charlie Peacock
A New Way to Be Human

Walker Percy
*Signposts in a Strange Land
Love in the Ruins
The Thanatos Syndrome

John Pollock
Wilberforce

Dorothy Sayers
Creed or Chaos
Letters to a Diminished Church: Passionate Arguments for the Relevance of Christian Doctrine

Francis Schaeffer
The God Who is There
He is There and He is Not Silent
True Spirituality

Edith Schaeffer
Hidden Art 

Amy Sherman
Kingdom Calling (due out January 2012)

James Sire
Habits of the Mind

John Stott
Christian Mission in the Modern World
New Issues Facing Christians Today

Steve Turner
King of Twist
Up to Date
Imagine: A Christian Vision for the Arts

Thomas Watson
The Beatitudes

Simone Weil
Waiting for God

William Wilberforce
Real Christianity

Ben Witherington III
Work: A Spiritual Perspective on Labor

Tom Wolfe
Hooking Up
I Am Charlotte Simmons 

N.T. Wright
For All God’s Worth: True Worship and the Calling of the Church
The Lord and His Prayer

*Books with an asterisk represent our “life on a desert island” choices, but that is hard because it is too much like choosing which fingers you want to keep.