Suggested Reading

This page contains a selection of books that may contribute to a broader understanding of the topics discussed by our group.  Hearts (♥) indicate books that at least one of our members has read either in full or in part; future updates to this page may include additional notations.

Apologetics:

• Big Questions, Walt Groff, Mike Speegle, 2008 (http://a.co/8EIHoUC) ♥
• The Case for Christ: A Journalist’s Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus, Lee Strobel, 2013 (http://a.co/dVJt0JR) ♥
• Does God Exist?, William Lane Craig, 2014 (http://a.co/5TgiCZZ) ♥
• The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism, Tim Keller, 2008 (http://a.co/9PfpJx5)
• Questions of Truth: Fifty-one Reponses to Questions about God, Science, and Belief, John Polkinghorne, Nicholas Beale, 2010 (http://a.co/2EYqyrn)
• Why Should Anyone Believe Anything at All?, James W. Sire, 1994 (1^st ed.), 2010 (Kindle ed.) (http://a.co/arvgUFp) ♥

Christianity:

• The Bible Tells Me So…Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable To Read It, Peter Enns, 2014 (http://a.co/2G5HPjj) ♥
• Finding God in the Waves: How I Lost My Faith and Found It Again Through Science, Mike McHargue, 2016 (http://a.co/ir58SJL) ♥
• The Great Dance: The Christian Vision Revisited, C. Baxter Kruger, 2011 (http://a.co/gB3E0ep) ♥
• Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived, Rob Bell, 2011 (http://a.co/gArtqZ7) ♥
• Rumors of Another World, Philip Yancey, 2009 (http://a.co/figO9W1)

Church History:

• Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why, Bart Ehrman, 2005 (1^st ed.), 2007 (reprint ed.), 2009 (e-book ed.) (http://a.co/8S4MWq5) ♥
• Universalism 101, Richard Trudeau, 2014 (http://a.co/j1pmwxp) ♥
• Universalism: The Prevailing Doctrine of the Christian Church During Its First 500 Years, J.W. Hanson, 2014 (http://a.co/3CT4vWX)
• Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, Reza Aslan, 2013 (http://a.co/6YmOhtV) ♥

Physics, Cosmology & Quantum Mechanics:

• The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe, Lynne McTaggart, 2002 (1^st ed.), 2009 (reprint ed.) (http://a.co/1aCczYl) ♥
• Genesis and the Big Bang: The Discovery of Harmony Between Modern Science and the Bible, Gerald L. Schroeder, 1990 (1^st ed.), 2011 (reprint ed.) (http://a.co/63toaGI)
• Heaven’s Reality: Lifting the Quantum Veil, Sarah McGee, 2016 (http://a.co/egHRHEh) ♥
• Quantum Theory: A Very Short Introduction, John Polkinghorne, 2002 (http://a.co/d564ycK)
• The Science of God: The Convergence of Scientific & Biblical Wisdom, Gerald L. Schroeder, 1997 (1^st ed.), 2009 (reprint ed.) (http://a.co/41RUVPo) ♥
• The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God, Carl Sagan, 2006 (http://a.co/fsSUl2L) ♥

Biology, Evolution & Genetics:

• Evolution: Still a Theory in Crisis, Michael Denton, 2016 (http://a.co/3eCo7UF)
• Genetic Entropy, J.C. Sanford, 2008 (1st ed.), 2014 (4th ed.), 2015 (digital ed.) (http://a.co/iXkTL25) ♥
• Origins of Life: Biblical and Evolutionary Models Face Off, Hugh Ross, Fazale Rana, 2004 (1^st ed.), 2014 (Kindle ed.) (http://a.co/5rjsvfi) ♥

Neurology & Consciousness:

• Consciousness and the Source of Reality: The PEAR Odyssey, Robert Jahn, Brenda Dunne, 2011 (1^st ed.), 2014 (Kindle ed.) (http://a.co/aLDmdab) ♥
• How Consciousness Became the Universe, Chopra, Penrose, Stapp, Carter, et. al., 2015, 2016 (http://a.co/4b8UOks) ♥
• The Emperor’s New Mind, Roger Penrose, 1989 (1^st ed.), 1999 (reprint ed.) (http://a.co/9Ure6dT) ♥
• The Origins of Morality: Convergent and Consilient Reasons for a Re Think, Daniel Briggs, 2012 (http://a.co/6ADuabv)
• The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle, 1999 (1^st ed.), 2004 (reprint ed.), 2010 (Kindle ed.) (http://a.co/jcl5g2c)
• You are the Universe: Discovering Your Cosmic Self and Why it Matters, Deepak Chopra, Menas Kafatos, 2017 (http://a.co/dTjg94Z) ♥

Scripture & Other Ancient Texts:

• The Complete Book of Enoch: Standard Version, Jay Winter, 2015 (http://a.co/gf6U3K5) ♥
• The Guide for the Perplexed, Moses Maimonides (Rambam), 2010 (digital) (http://a.co/bH6nwRM) ♥
• Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala, Various, 1943 (1^st ed.), 2016 (Kindle ed.) (http://a.co/9z5jLxA)
• The Lost Books of the Bible, William Hone, 2010 (1^st ed.), 2012 (Kindle ed.) (http://a.co/3IbGKBe) ♥
• The Qur’an: A Translation, M.H. Shakir, 1982, 2002 (13^th ed.) (http://a.co/2ieoWTz)
• The Zohar, Michael Laitman, 2007 (http://files.kabbalahmedia.info/files/eng_t_ml-sefer-zohar.pdf) ♥

Fiction:

• The Influence, Matthew John Slick, 2011 (http://a.co/6bMOQIS) ♥
• The Shack, Wm. Paul Young, 2008 (http://a.co/iUT7ACs) ♥
• The Shack Revisited: There Is More Going On Here than You Ever Dared to Dream, C. Baxter Kruger, 2012 (http://a.co/2PCEmz7)

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