Christmas/Holiday Reading

Christmas Reading: Increasing Your Cultural Capacity

Fleming Rutledge, Advent: The Once and Future Coming of Jesus Christ.

Alan Jacobs, The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis.

Christian Scholarship in the Twenty-first Century (eds. Thomas M. Crisp, Steve L. Porter and Gregg A. Ten Elshof)

Makoto Fujimura, Culture Care: Reconnecting with Beauty for our Common Life.

Craig Gay, Modern Technology and the Human Future: a Christian Appraisal.

Hans Boersma, Scripture as Real Presence: Sacramental Exegesis in the Early Church.

Andy Crouch, The Tech-Wise Family.

Daniel Taylor, Do We Not Bleed? A Jon Mote Mystery.

Mark R. McMinn, The Science of Virtue: Why Positive Psychology Matters to the Church.

Jon Huckins and Jer Swigart, Mending the Divides: Creative Love in a Conflicted World.

Dennis Danielson, The Tao of Right and Wrong.

Cynthia Long Westfall, Paul and Gender: Reclaiming the Apostle’s Vision for Men and Women in Christ.

Tish Harrison Warren, Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life.

Kelly M. Kapic, Embodied Hope: A Theological Meditation on Pain and Suffering. 

Chantal Delsol, Icarus Fallen: The Search for Meaning in an Uncertain World.

Malcolm Guite, Love, Remember: 40 Poems of Loss, Lament and Hope.

M. Louise Holert, Praying with the Arts: Illuminating the Church Year with Sacred Art.

Andrzej Franaszek, Milosz: a Biography.

The Language Animal: the full shape of human linguistic capacity by Charles Taylor (2016)

Faith and Wisdom in Science by Tom McLeish (OUP, 2014)

The Age of Jihad: Islamic State and the Great War for the Middle East by Patrick Cockburn (Verso, 2016)

Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet  by Lyndal Roper (2016)

Identity and Idolatry: The Image of God and its Inversion by Richard Lints (IVP)

Last Testament: in his own words by Pope Benedict XVI (Bloomsbury Continuum, 2016)