Recommended Reading

These books are recommended by the Trinity Forum. If you order them from Amazon.com after clicking through these links, the Trinity Forum will earn a small commission on these sales.

Also see the Reading List category on our Provocations weblog and online journal.

Books from the Trinity Forum

• Invitation to the Classics: A Guide to Books You've Always Wanted to Read
• Unriddling Our Times: Reflections on the Gathering Cultural Crisis (A collection of Readings)
• Character Counts: Leadership Qualities in Washington, Wilberforce, Lincoln, Solzhenitsyn (A collection of Readings)

Books by Dallas Willard, Senior Fellow

• Renovation of the Heart: Putting on the Character of Christ
• The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God
• The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives
• Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship With God

Books by David Aikman, Senior Fellow

• Great Souls: Six Who Changed a Century
• Jesus in Beijing: How Christianity Is Transforming China and Changing the Global Balance of Power
• A Man of Faith : The Spiritual Journey of George W. Bush

Books by Joe Loconte, Senior Fellow

• The End of Illusions: Religious Leaders Confront Hitler's Gathering Storm
• God, Government, and the Good Samaritan: The Promise and Peril of the President's Faith-Based Initiative
• Seducing the Samaritan: How Government Contracts Are Reshaping Social Services

Books by Os Guinness, Founding Senior Fellow

For all readers

• The Case for Civility: And Why Our Future Depends on It
• Unspeakable: Facing Up to Evil in an Age of Genocide and Terror
• Long Journey Home: A Guide to Your Search for the Meaning of Life
• The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life
• Rising to the Call: Discover the Ultimate Purpose of Your Life (similar to The Call; packaged for teens and college-aged people)
• God in the Dark: The Assurance of Faith Beyond a Shadow of Doubt
• Time for Truth: Living Free in a World of Lies, Hype, and Spin
• The American Hour: A Time of Reckoning and the Once and Future Role of Faith

For thoughtful evangelical Christians

• Prophetic Untimeliness: A Challenge to the Idol of Relevance
• Fit Bodies Fat Minds: Why Evangelicals Don't Think and What to Do About It
• Dining With the Devil: The Megachurch Movement Flirts with Modernity

Other Good Books

On faith

• Mere Christianity, by C. S. Lewis
• Orthodoxy: The Romance of Faith, by G. K. Chesterton
• The Question of God: C. S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life by Armand Nicholi

On William Wilberforce

• Hero for Humanity: A Biography of William Wilberforce, by Kevin Belmonte
• God's Politician: William Wilberforce's Struggle to abolish the slave trade and reform the morals of a nation, by Garth Lean

Electronic Texts

These texts are available at no cost and are often hard to find in print.

• Elton Trueblood, Abraham Lincoln: Theologian of American Anguish (the source for our Reading on Lincoln)