As the school year starts to wind down a bit for me, I’m expecting to find myself with a lot more free time on my hands. Not wanting to squander such a resource as my time (and hoping to build my reason for believing even more, especially at a brief moment in time where I’m having worse doubts than usually following an accidental stumbling of another atheist(?) online account), I was wondering what books you would recommend for a good reading. This can be anything from analysis of the life of Jesus to Evolutionary Creationist views of creation. If you know of some books outside of the realm of non-fiction to recommend, I would appreciate that too.
P.S. Thank you everyone for the support you have provided in the month since I have joined!
One of the specialists in my health system, a wise man about 20 years older than me, told me, “Randy, slow down, the race is long.” Please take your time so as not to burn out.. When I was 20, I went into a bit of a slump as I kept furiously trying to find reasons to answer my skeptical profs, and then even worried about my salvation and whether I had sinned against the Holy Spirit (Randal Rauser’s book, “What’s So Confusing About Grace,” fits right into that groove.
My own favorites are the course by Dr Lamoureux at Coursera(free) @DOL , some of his own books (I own several), the Counterpoints series on biblical struggles (historical Adam, etc), Pete Enns’ “Evolution of Adam,” Rachel Held Evans’ : “Faith Unraveled,” which is really compassionate, “Benefit of the Doubt”and “Cross Vision” by Greg Boyd, “Justice” and “The Fisherman’s Lady” by George Macdonald (he was a huge influence on Lewis, and his books just demonstrate goodness I can’t find almost anywhere else)–and there are a ton more that I am still hoping to re read and learn from. I’m sure you can teach me some, too.
Blessings, and enjoy your summer!
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