02 March 2023

The Militant Pacifist's Reading List - UPDATED!!!

I have been keeping a list of readings (not periodicals) for several years now. I read extensively before starting the list, but those readings are only recorded in my memory. Seeing my reading list might explain some of my interests and eccentricities.

2023 (so far)

Small Preaching: 25 Little Things You Can Do Now to Make You a Better Preacher; by Jonathan T. Pennington - February

2022

God's Debris (A Thought Experiment); by Scott Adams - January

2021

How to Exasperate Your Wife; by Douglas Wilson - September

2020

The Rewired Brain; by Ski Chilton - October

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes; by Suzanne Collins - July

History & Christianity; by John Warwick Montgomery - March

The Christian Sexual Worldview; God's order in an Age of Sexual Chaos; by P. Andrew Sandlin - March

2019

Eggs are Expensive, Sperm is Cheap; by Greg Krehbiel - December

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis; by J.D. Vance - October

Uhm, Like, You Know?: Verbal Garbage and the Sacred Art of Speaking Well; by Hal Brunson - July

Longevity Solution: Rediscovering Centuries-Old Secrets to a Healthy, Long Life; by Dr. Jason Fung and Dr. James Dinicolantonio - March

2018

Jesus and the Gospels; by Luke Timothy Johnson - August

On Jesus; by Douglas Groothuis - May

Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?: Larry Norman and the Perils of Christian Rock; by Gregory Thornbury - April

Charles Spurgeon: Preaching Through Adversity; by John Piper - January

The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss; by Dr. Jason Fung - January

2017

The Last Battle; by C.S. Lewis - December

The Silver Chair; by C.S. Lewis - November

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader; by C.S. Lewis - November

Prince Caspian; by C.S. Lewis - November

The Horse and His Boy; by C.S. Lewis - October

The Complete Guide to Fasting: Heal Your Body Through Intermittent, Alternate-Day, and Extended Fasting; by Dr. Jason Fung - October

The Kamado Smoker and Grill Cookbook; by Chris Grove - October

The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe; by C.S. Lewis - October

God's Crime Scene: A Cold-Case Detective Examines the Evidence for a Divinely Created Universe; by J. Warner Wallace - October

The Magician's Nephew; by C.S. Lewis - September

Mind-Body Philosophy; by Patrick Grim - September

Lila; by Marilynne Robinson - January

A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-1918; by Joseph Loconte - January

2016

Home; by Marilynne Robinson - December

Gilead; by Marilynne Robinson - November

Why Evil Exists; by Charles Mathewes - October

The Prayer of the Lord; by R.C. Sproul - October

The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert; by Rosaria Butterfield - April

Skeptics and Believers: Religious Debate in the Western Intellectual Tradition; by Tyler Roberts - March

Evil and the Justice of God; by N. T. Wright - February

The Clue of the Maze; by C.H. Spurgeon - January

2015

Echoes and Stars: Pastoral Thoughts on Faith, Grief and Hope; Matt B. Redmond - December

Everything That Rises Must Converge; Flannery O'Connor - August

Miracles: What They Are, Why They Happen, and How They Can Change Your Life; by Eric Metaxas - May

A Tale of Three Kings; by Gene Edwards - March

2014

He Wins, She Wins: Learning the Art of Marital Negotiation; by Willard F. Harley, Jr. - October

Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God; by J.I. Packer - September

The Pilgrim’s Progress, from this world to that which is to come, delivered under the similitude of a dream; by John Bunyan - September

The Apostle Paul; by Luke Timothy Johnson - August

Fight: A Christian Case for Non-Violence; by Preston Sprinkle - July

Look at the Birdie: Short Fiction; by Kurt Vonnegut - July

Strange Fire: The Danger of Offending the Holy Spirit with Counterfeit Worship; by John MacArthur - June

The Philosopher's Toolkit: How to be the Most Rational Person in Any Room; by Patrick Grim - May

God's Debris, A Thought Experiment; by Scott Adams - January

2013

Insurgent; by Veronica Roth - December

Divergent; by Veronica Roth - November

A Rumor of War; by Philip Caputo - October

Epic Jesus; The Christ You Never Knew; by Frank Viola - September

The Little Way of Ruthie Leming: A Southern Girl, a Small Town, and the Secret of a Good Life; by Rod Dreher - September

Poem Strip; by Dino Buzzati - August

Economics for Everybody; by R.C. Sproul Jr. - August

The Weight of Glory; by C.S. Lewis - July

The Prodigal God; by Timothy Keller - July

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey Mr. Militant Man! Dig your blog. Someone should give you an advanced graduate degree for all that heavy reading you've done!

Anonymous said...

I have been very fond of the preoccupation found in Marxist Humanism, but I have just posted some terrible news about the bigotry of Karl Marx… Please stop by and offer your thoughts if you like, some as well read as you must have some nice things to say

Enchanted Etymologist said...

Oral history of the Zombies...nice!

Lee Shelton said...

I am intimidated and shamed every time I see these reading lists. :(

Stephen said...

I found your blog while searching for militant pacifism. I wondered if there would be a hit, and here you are!

Some very interesting reads you've listed here, and I'm interested in tracking down a few for myself, for next year's reading. I've only just become interested in anarchism in recent years, being introduced to it with Henry David Thoreau and moving toward the worldview in my studies of Stoicism and reading Emma Goldman. Around the same time I've also studied Gandhighri and have become interested in the kind of love that he, Buddha, and Jesus were said to espouse and live by.

Thank you for sharing your recent reads.

tom sheepandgoats said...

Regarding your pick: Ans to Job. i was struck by it being written just after the Holocaust, something I had not taken note of going in. “We have experienced things so unheard of and so staggering that the question of whether such things are in any way reconcilable with the idea of a good God has become burningly topical. It is no longer a problem for experts in theological seminaries, but a universal religious nightmare....” he writes.

Belonging to one of the groups victimized during that time, (jehovah's Witnesses, non-war participants to their core) and already having an interest in the Book of Job, I wrote my own brief post.

http://tinyurl.com/6box9g2

Answer to Job is included in The Portable Jung, ed Jos Campbell. I've had it lying around forever, but only recently got around to reading it.

Enchanted Etymologist said...

That's a very impressive reading list. I'm happy to see some fiction has made it on in the last two years - everyone needs a little bubblegum in their life!