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Here are some of my recommendations for summer reading. While none of it is "light" reading, the "lighter" selections are very accessible and enjoyable-- not exactly typical beach reading, but not out of place on vacation or at the beach. The "heavier" stuff is a bit rougher sledding, but I've chosen works that won't kill you. There are roughly a million books that I left off, but this should get you thinking.
Devotional
- Os Guiness, The Call
- John Piper, The Godward Life
Cultural Critique and Evangelism
- Curtis Chang, Engaging Unbelief: A Captivating Strategy from Augustine and Aquinas
- Middleton and Walsh, Truth is Stranger than it Used to Be
- Mark Noll, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind
- Richard John Neuhaus, The Naked Public Square
- Phillip Johnson, Darwin on Trial
- Harold O.J. Brown, The Sensate Culture: Western Culture Between Chaos and Transformation
- G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
- C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
- Richard John Neuhaus, ed., The Second One Thousand Years: Ten People Who Defined a Millennium
Law and Politics (listed from "Lighter" to "Heavier")
- Russell Kirk, The Roots of American Order
- J. Budziszewski, The Revenge of Conscience: Politics and the Fall of Man
- J. Budziszewski, Written on the Heart: The Case for Natural Law
- H. Wayne House, ed., The Christian and American Law: Christianity's Impact on America's Founding Documents and Future Direction
- Robert Cochran, et al, eds., Christian Perspectives on Legal Thought
- Harold J. Berman, Law and Revolution: The Formation of the Western Legal Tradition
- Pope John Paul II, Encyclical Veritatis Splendor, The Splendor of Truth
- Thomas Aquinas, Treatise on Law (1956 Regnery Gateway, with an introduction by Ralph McInerny)