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Campus Ministry Discussions

Friedlander, Albert H., ed. Never Trust A God Over 30. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967.

Nederhood, J. H. The Church’s Mission to the Educated American. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1960.

Portaro, Sam and Gary Peluso. Inquiring and Discerning Hearts:  Vocation and Ministry with Young Adults on Campus.  Scolars Press, 1993.

Shockley, Donald G.  Campus Ministry: The Church Beyond Itself. Louisville: John Knox, 1989.

Christianity and Culture

Hoekema, David A. and Bobby Fong. Christianity and Culture in the Crossfire. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1997.

Mouw, Richard J. He Shines in All That’s Fair:  Culture and Common Grace.  Eerdmans, 2001. 

Wright, N. T. Simply Christian. Harper, 2006.

The Christian Mind

Barcus, Nancy B. Developing a Christian Mind:  A Fearless, Happy Ease Amid the Conflicts of Secular Thought.  Downers Grove: IVP, 1977.

Blamires, Harry The Christian Mind: How Should a Christian Think? Ann Arbor, MI: Servant Books, 1963.  

Chesterton, G. K. Orthodoxy. London: John Lane, 1908. 

Gill, David W. The Opening of the Christian Mind: Taking Every Thought Captive to Christ. Downers Grove: IVP, 1989.

Guiness, Os.  Thin Bodies, Fat Minds:  Why Evangelicals Don’t Think and What To Do About It.  Grand Rapids: Baker, 1984.

Hughes, Richard T.  How Christian Faith Can Sustain the Life of the Mind. Eerdmans, 2001.

Noll, Mark The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1994.

Sire, James W. Habits of the Mind:  Intellectual Life as a Christian Calling. Downers Grove: IVP, 2000.

Sire, James.  Discipleship of the Mind:  Learning to Love God in the Ways We Think. IVP, 1990. 

Sire, James W.  How to Read Slowly: A Christian Guide to Reading with the Mind. Downers Grove: IVP, 1979.

Devotions for Campus

Boyd, Malcolm. Are You Running With Me, Jesus? 1965.

Ecology, Multi-faith, Feminism

Bouma-Prediger, Steven.  For the Beauty of the Earth: A Christian Vision for Creation Care. Baker, 2001.

Newbigin, Lesslie.  The Gospel in a Pluralist Society. Eerdmans, 1989.

Stackhouse, John G. Jr. Finally Feminist: A Pragmatic Christian Understanding of Gender.  Baker, 2005.

Leadership, Mentoring, and Coaching

Benner, David.  Sacred Companions:  The Gift of Spiritual Friendship and Direction. (IVP, 2002).

Granberg-Michaelson, Wesley. Leadership From the Inside Out: Spirituality and Organizational Change. Crossroad, 2004.

Logan, Robert and Sherilyn Carlton. Coaching 101: Discover the Power of Coaching  (ChurchSmart, 2003).

Wright, Walter. Mentoring: The Promise of Relational Leadership (Paternoster, 2004).

Postmoderism

Downing, Crystal.  How Postmodernism Serves my Faith: Questioning Truth in Language, Philosophy and Art. (IVP, 2006).

Lyon, David.  Jesus in Disneyland: Religion in Postmodern Times.  Polity, 2000.

Smith, James K. A. Whose Afraid of Postmodernism?  Taking Derrida, Lyotard and Foucault to Church. (Baker, 2006).

Smith, James K. A. The Fall of Interpretation: Philosophical Foundations for a Creational Hermeneutic. IVP, 2000.

Reformed Worldview

Bartholomew, Craig G. and Michael W. Goheen. The Drama Of Scripture: Finding Our Place In The Biblical Story. Baker, 2005.

Bierma, Lyle.  Bringing Heaven Down to Earth: Connecting This Life to the Next. New Jersey: P and R Publishing, 2005.

Clouser, Roy. Knowing With the Heart:  Religious Experience and Belief in God.  IVP, 1999. 

Colson, Chuck and Nancy Pearcey.  How Now Shall We Live?  

Marshall, Paul.  Heaven is Not My Home:  Learning to Live in God’s Creation.  Nashville:  Word, 1998.

Mouw, Richard.  When the Kings Come Marching In.  Eerdmans, 2002.

Plantinga, Cornelius. Engaging God’s World: A Christian Vision of Faith, Learning and Living.  Eerdmans, 2002. 

Walsh, Brian and Richard Middleton.  Transforming Vision:  Shaping a Christian Worldview.  IVP, 1984.  See also Truth is Stranger than it Used to Be (IVP, 1995) and Colossians Remixed (IVP, 2004).

Wolters, Albert M. Creation Regained: Biblical Basics for A Reformational Worldview.  Eerdmans, 1985. 

Wolterstorff, Nicolas.  Reason Within the Bounds of Religion.  Eerdmans, 1976. 

Religion and Higher Education

Gill, David W., ed. Should God Get Tenure?  Essays On Religion in Higher Education.  Grand Rapids:  Eerdmans, 1997.

Marsden, George.  The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship. Oxford, 1997.

Marsden, George.  The Soul of the American University: From Protestant Establishment to Established Nonbelief.  Oxford, 1994.

Webb, Stephen H. Taking Religion to School:  Christian Theology and Secular Education. Grand Rapids:  Brazos, 2000.

Student Guides

Garber, Steven.  The Fabric of Faithfulness: Weaving Together Belief and Behaviour During the University Years. Downers Grove: IVP, 1996.

Swartz, Harriet L. Spirituality 101:  The Indispensible Guide to Keeping—or Finding—Your Spiritual Life on Campus.  Woodstock:  Skylight, 2004.

Taylor, Daniel.  The Myth of Certainty:  Trusting God, Asking Questions, Taking Risks.  Zondervan, 1986. 

The University

David L. Kirp Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line : The Marketing of Higher Education, Harvard Press, 2004.

Derek Bok Universities in the Marketplace : The Commercialization of Higher Education
Princeton Press, 2004.

Klassen, Norman and Jens Zimmermann. The Passionate Intellect: Incarnational Humanism and the Future of University Education. Baker Academic, 2006.

Malik, Charles Habib. A Christian Critique of the University. Downers Grove: IVP, 1982.