Appendix D: Recommended Reading for the Disciple

Essential Preparation

• Mere Christianity — C.S. Lewis. Read it twice. It is the single most important apologetics text in the English language.
• The Language of God — Francis Collins. For the scientifically minded conversation.
• God's Undertaker — John Lennox. The philosophy of science and its relationship to faith.
• The Dawkins Delusion? — Alister McGrath. The most precise response to the New Atheists.
• Reasonable Faith — William Lane Craig. Comprehensive philosophical case.
• The Reason for God — Tim Keller. Best contemporary apologetics for secular urban audiences.
• Surprised by Joy — C.S. Lewis. His own conversion account. Essential for conversations with agnostics.

For Deeper Preparation

• Mind and Cosmos — Thomas Nagel. An atheist philosopher's case against materialism.
• There Is a God — Anthony Flew. The world's most prominent philosophical atheist changes his mind.
• Modern Physics and Ancient Faith — Stephen Barr. Physics and cosmology in dialogue with Christian theology.
• A Secular Age — Charles Taylor. How the West became secular. Scholarly but essential.
• The Victory of Reason — Rodney Stark. How Christianity produced modern science.

For Understanding the Cultural Moment

• Woke Racism — John McWhorter. A secular progressive's critique of the quasi-religious nature of contemporary social justice ideology.
• The Coddling of the American Mind — Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff. The psychological costs of the current secular culture.
• Losing the Plot — Thaddeus Williams. A Christian response to social justice culture.