Books Read 2018

January

1.The New Shape of Religion, Martin Marty
2. Life Together, Dietrich Bonhoeffer
3. Father As Protector, Adam Lancaster
4. Essential Evangelicalism, Matt Hall, Owen Strachan, eds.
5. Barth For Armchair Theologians, John Franke
6. Recovering Classic Evangelicalism, Greg Thornbury
7. The Unequal Yoke, Richard Pierard
8. Fundamentalism and American Culture, George Marsden
9. The Plant Paradox, Steven Gundry

February

10. Hillbilly Elegy, JD Vance
11. To Change The World, James Davison Hunter
12. The Conscience of a Conservative, Barry Goldwater
13. Origin of Species, Charles Darwin
14. Christianity and Liberalism, Gresham Machen
15. Onward, Russell Moore
16. Reforming Fundamentalism, George Marsden

March

17. Aspects of Christian Social Ethics, Carl Henry
18. Karl Barth: Intro For Evangelicals, Mark Galli
19. Common Sense and Other Writings, Thomas Paine
20. The Plague, Albert Camus
21. Kingdom of Christ, Russell Moore
22. Evangelism and Social Concern in Carl Henry, Jerry Ireland
23. After Fundamentalism, Bernard Ramm
24. Emotionally Healthy Spirituality, Peter Scazzero

April

25. On the Nature of Persons, A.R.C. Duncan
26. On The Boundaries of American Evangelicalism, Jon Stone
27. The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad
28. Carl F.H. Henry, Bob E. Patterson
29. Evangelical Responsibility in Contemporary Theology, Carl Henry
30. Silence, Shusaku Endo
31. A Plea For Evangelical Demonstration, Carl Henry
32. The Social Conscience of the Evangelical, Sherwood Wirt
33. The Future of Evangelical Christianity, Donald Bloesch
34. Evangelicals In Search of an Identity, Carl Henry

May

35. Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad
36. Vipers’ Tangle, Francois Mauriac
37. Religion, Art and Science, John Macmurray
38. The Education of Feeling and Emotion, Francis Dunlop
39. The Philosophy of Communism, John Macmurray 
40. King Solomon’s Mines, H. Rider Haggard
41. The Structure of Religious Experience, John Macmurray 
42. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn 
43. Communist Manifesto and Other Writings, Karl Marx
44. Creative Society, John Macmurray 

June

45. Emotionally Destructive Marriage, Leslie Vernick
46. John Macmurray: Community Beyond Political Philosophy, Frank Kirkpatrick
47. Challenge To The Churches: Religion and Democracy, John Macmurray 
48. A Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 
49. Conditions of Freedom, John Macmurray
50. Sisters and Brothers, Verna Dozier
51. My Beloved Brothers and Sisters, Reidar Aasgaard
52. Closer than a Sister, Christina Fox
53. The Friendships of Women, Dee Brestin
54. The Protestant Search for Political Realism 1919-1941, Donald Meyer

July

55. Women & Friendship, Joel Block and Dianne Greenberg
56. Men and Friendship, Stuart Miller
57. Reinhold Niebuhr, Bob Patterson
58. Christianity and the Social Crisis, Walter Rauschenbusch
59. Just Friends, Lillian B. Rubin 
60. We Are Sisters, Dee Brestin
61. Embodied Souls, Ensouled Bodies, Marc Cortez
62. Men in Groups, Lionel Tiger

August

63. Little Women, Louisa Alcott
64. Raised Immortal, Murray Harris
65. Toward A Feminist Christology, Julie Hopkins
66. The Trial, Franz Kafka
67. The Cloister Walk, Kathleen Norris
68. Woman In Christian Tradition, George Tavard
69. Resourcing Christological Anthropology, Marc Cortez
70. Gender Gap: Bio of MF Differences, David Barash and Judith Lipton

Sept

71. Breaking Boundaries, Rosemary Rader
72. Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser
73. Is There Anything Good About Men, Roy Baumeister
74. A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Flannery O’Connor
75. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson

Oct

76. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
77. Maternal Thinking, Sara Ruddick
78. A Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold
79. Kissing Christians, Michael Philip
80. Forty, Stanley Brandes

Nov

81. You Just Don’t Understand, Deborah Tannen
82. Lost in the Middle, Paul David Tripp
83. College Bound and Gagged, Nancy Berk
84. Women’s Way of Knowing, Mary Belenky, et. al
85. The Chosen, Chaim Potok
86. Talking From 9 to 5, Deborah Tannen
87. Working Ourselves To Death, Diane Fassel
88. Marfa, Kathleen Shafer
89. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum

Dec

90. Preparing Your Teens For College, Alex Chediak
91. Feminine Appeal, Carolyn Mahaney
92. Silas Marner and Two Short Stories, George Eliot
93. Donald McGavran’s Harvest Theology Principle, Todd Benkert
94. The Question of Woman, Charlotte von Kirschbaum
95. Popular, Mitch Prinstein
96. A Woman’s Place, Karen Beaty
97. Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg