I truly believe the statement by Mark Twain that “The man who does not read good books is no better than the man who can’t.”

Which brings me to a long list of books, followed by a DVD list as well:Thomas Jefferson chimed in when he said that “Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men [or women], setting out in life, it is their only capital.”

Recommended Books

Apologetic Reads

Theology/Doctrine Reads

1. Christian Theology
2. Integrative Theology
3. Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine
4. Systematic Theology
5. Inerrancy
6. Evangelical Dictionary of Theology
7. Is There a Meaning in This Text? The Bible, the Reader, and the Morality of Literary Knowledge
8. First Theology: God, Scripture & Hermeneutics
9. Father, Son, and Holy Spirit: Relationships, Roles, and Relevance
10. Getting to Know the Church Fathers: An Evangelical Introduction

Comparative Religious Reads

1. See the Gods Fall: Four Rivals to Christianity
2. Why You Should Believe in the Trinity: An Answer to Jehovah’s Witnesses
3. The Kingdom of the Cults
4. Correcting the Cults: Expert Responses to Their Scripture Twisting
5. The New Mormon Challenge
6. The Emergent Church: Undefining Christianity
7. Encyclopedic Dictionary of Cults, Sects, and World Religions
8. Neighboring Faiths: A Christian Introduction to World Religions
9. Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message
10. Encountering Religious Pluralism: The Challenge to Christian Faith and Mission

Materialism/Naturalism Reads

1. The Freedom of the Will
2. Naturalism Defeated? Essays on Plantinga’s Evolutionary Argument against Naturalism
3. Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False
4. God’s Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?
5. Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism
6. Objections to Physicalism
7. Naturalism
8. Agents Under Fire, Materialism and the Rationality of Science
9. The Waning of Materialism
10. The Magician’s Twin: C. S. Lewis on Science, Scientism, and Society

Human Origins

1. Science and Human Origins
2. Darwin’s Enigma: Ebbing the Tide of Naturalism
3. Bones of Contention: A Creationist Assessment of Human Fossils

Young Earth Creationist Reads

1. Starlight, Time and the New Physics
2. Thousands not Billions: Challenging the Icon of Evolution, Questioning the Age of the Earth
3. In Six Days: Why Fifty Scientists Choose to Believe in Creation
4. Tornado in a Junkyard: The Relentless Myth of Darwinism
5. Unlocking the Mysteries of Creation, The Explorer’s Guide to the Awesome Works of God, Second Edition
6. After the Flood
7. Ancient Post-Flood History: Historical Documents That Point to Biblical Creation
8. The Young Earth: The Real History of the Earth – Past, Present, and Future
9. In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood (8th Edition)
10. The Genius of Ancient Man

Evolution vs Design/Creation

1. Probability’s Nature and Nature’s Probability : A Call to Scientific Integrity
2. Without Excuse
3. Evolution Impossible: 12 Reasons Why Evolution Cannot Explain the Origin of Life on Earth
4. Evolution’s Achilles’ Heels

Intelligent Design Reads

1. Uncommon Dissent: Intellectuals Who Find Darwinism Unconvincing
2. Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design
3. The Mysterious Epigenome: What Lies Beyond DNA
4. Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth? Why Much of What We Teach About Evolution Is Wrong
5. Evolution: A Theory In Crisis
6. The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design
7. Intelligent Design Uncensored: An Easy-to-Understand Guide to the Controversy
8. Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution
9. Understanding Intelligent Design: Everything You Need to Know in Plain Language

Political/Cultural Reads

1. Intellectual Morons: How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas
2. The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth, and Power
3. The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture
4. The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left’s Assault on Our Culture and Values
5. Clash Of Orthodoxies: Law Religion & Morality In Crisis
6. The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot
7. True Tolerance: Liberalism and the Necessity of Judgment
8. Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity
9. The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
10. Relativism: Feet Firmly Planted in Mid-Air
11. Politics – According to the Bible: A Comprehensive Resource for Understanding Modern Political Issues in Light of Scripture

Historical Reads

1. Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Change
2. A Conservative History of the American Left
3. Original Intent: The Courts, the Constitution, & Religion
4. How Christianity Changed the World
5. A History of the American People
6. The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success
7. Black Rednecks and White Liberals
8. Modern Times Revised Edition: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties
9. Religion and The American Constitutional Experiment
10. The Savage Wars Of Peace: Small Wars And The Rise Of American Power

Pro-Life Reads

1. Embryo: A Defense of Human Life
2. Defending Life: A Moral and Legal Case Against Abortion Choice
3. Pro-Life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments
4. The Case for Life: Equipping Christians to Engage the Culture
5. Gianna: Aborted, and Lived to Tell about It

Legal Philosophy Reads

1. Natural Law and Public Reason 
2. Reason in the Balance: The Case Against Naturalism in Science, Law and Education
3. Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality
4. Natural Law and Natural Rights
5. In Defense of Natural Law

Old Testament God/Problem of Evil [Theodicy] Reads

1. Slaves, Women & Homosexuals: Exploring the Hermeneutics of Cultural Analysis
2. God Behaving Badly: Is the God of the Old Testament Angry, Sexist and Racist?
   
3. Is God a Moral Monster? Making Sense of the Old Testament God
4. Did God Really Command Genocide?
5. The Evidential Argument from Evil
6. God, Freedom, and Evil

Christian Philosophy/Worldview Reads

1. The Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology
2. Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview
3. Faith and Reason: Searching for a Rational Faith
4. God Is Great, God Is Good: Why Believing in God Is Reasonable and Responsible
5. Understanding the Times: The Collision of Today’s Competing Worldviews

Psychology/Counseling Reads

1. One Nation Under Therapy: How the Helping Culture Is Eroding Self-Reliance
2. Psychology as Religion: The Cult of Self-Worship
3. Soul Searching: Why Psychotherapy Must Promote Moral Responsibility
4. Changes That Heal
5. Christian Counseling 3rd Edition

Homosexual/Marriage Reads

1. Same-Sex Matters: The Challenge of Homosexuality
2. Homosexuality and American Public Life
3. What Is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense
4. Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth
5. Ex-Gays?: A Longitudinal Study of Religiously Mediated Change in Sexual Orientation

Top-Five Islam Reads

1. The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)
2. The Truth About Muhammad: Founder of the World’s Most Intolerant Religion
3. Religion of Peace? Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn’t
4. Sharia versus Freedom: The Legacy of Islamic Totalitarianism
5. God’s Battalions: The Case for the Crusades

Top Three Israeli/Palestinian Conflict Reads

1. History Upside Down: The Roots of Palestinian Fascism and the Myth of Israeli Aggression
2. From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict over Palestine
3. The Case for Israel

Top Three Econ Reads

1. The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents
2. Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy
3. Free to Choose: A Personal Statement

A Favored Series, by Cornelius G. Hunter

1. Darwin’s God: Evolution and the Problem of Evil
2. Darwin’s Proof: The Triumph of Religion over Science
3. Science’s Blind Spot: The Unseen Religion of Scientific Naturalism

DVD LIST

I.D./Apologetics

• Unlocking The Mystery Of Life
• Darwin’s Dilemma
• The Privileged Planet
• Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
• The Case for a Creator
• Icons Of Evolution
• How Should We Then Live?
• A Christian Manifesto
• 12 Biggest Lies (Take note Alex Jones is in this documentary… I do not support or recommend him at all!)
• Metamorphosis: The Beauty and Design of Butterflies
• The Real Jesus: A Defense of the Historicity & Divinity of Christ
• Artistic Ape Anecdotes: The Art of Deception?
• Reason and Faith

Environmentalism & Global Warming

• The Great Global Warming Swindle
• Cool It
• Mine Your Own Business: The Darkside of Environmentalism
• Not Evil, Just Wrong
• Frack Nation
• Pandora’s Promise

Political/Education

• INDOCTRINATE U (Explicit Version)
• Celsius 41.11: The Temperature at Which the Brain… Begins to Die
• Fahrenhype 9/11
• Baseball, Dennis and the French
• Waiting for “Superman”
• America: Imagine a World Without Her
• Occupy Unmasked
• Fat Head
• 2016 Obama’s America

Historical/Cultural

• The Siege of Western Civilization
• The American Heritage Series
• America’s Godly Heritage
• Setting the Record Straight: American History in Black & White

Islam

• Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West
• Islam: What the West Needs to Know
• Jihad in America: The Grand Deception