This is a list of books I recommend speak to contemporary issues and especially to how the modern world got to be the way it is.
Top Recommendation
Al Mohler is a skilled and trustworthy interpreter of the times and The Gathering Storm comes in a context in which no one can doubt the existence or strength of the great winds of change that are sweeping over us all. His book, like Winston Churchill’s that inspires it, forces the reader to understand the reality and to understand the danger. But his book also offers gospel hope and distinctly Christian action. I hope and pray many read it and heed it.
Other Recommendations
Scrivener shows that the values so treasured by modern Western nations are values given to it by the Christian faith.
The book’s big idea is that the year “1776, more than any other year in the last millennium, is the year that made us who we are.” Wilson does a good job of proving his case.
Dreher means to prove that liberal democracy has decayed into something that is beginning to resemble Cold War-era totalitarianism and to suggest how Christians can respond and live with integrity.
Tara Isabella Burton, who does not write from a Christian perspective, shows that people today are not turning away from religion altogether, but turning toward new, replacement religions.
A challenging and sobering read, yet a helpful one, for it helps explain the world as it is today. It complements The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self and Strange New World.
Kevin DeYoung says that if someone asks what wokeness is and what is wrong with it, this is the first book he would recommend. I echo that.
Brief treatments of fifty dilemmas—answers that are reasonable, helpful, and best of all, biblical. Useful for you, for a youth group, or for a pastor to keep handy.
Four models for making decisions well. It was truly eye-opening for me, and is easy to read, well-illustrated, and just the right length.
