Books I'm Looking Forward to in 2020
Looking ahead to 2020 there are several books I am looking forward to reading. A few of them are below.
-The Decadent Society, Ross Douthat. Douthat is one of the most brilliant and best writers around and his perspective on things from culture, to politics, to faith is always incredibly insightful. America is in a bad way at the moment and this book argues it's due to our own success as a nation and our mismanagement of it.
-On Death, Timothy Keller. I have benefitted from everything I have ever read by Keller. Therefore, read Keller. Always.
-Brave New World, Aldous Huxley & 1984, George Orwell. I have decided to read three classic dystopian novels this year. I have already begun We, by Yevgeny Zamyatin and am really enjoying it.
-The Taste for the Other: The Social and Ethical Thought of C.S. Lewis, Gilbert Meilaender. For a sexual and bioethics course I took this past semester we read Meilaender's Bioethics. I found his writing enjoyable and his insight particularly helpful. Add those things to discussing Lewis' social and ethical thought and I'm in!
-Architect of Evangelicalism, Carl F. H. Henry. Henry truly can be credited with being the architect of contemporary evangelicalism–especially as it differs from contemporary fundamentalism. I read Henry's The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism last year and fell in love. His rootedness in biblical theology, his concern for the social implications of the faith, and his understanding of the cosmic nature of the gospel of Jesus Christ has made him someone I desperately want to read. This collection of essays looks incredible and I cannot wait to dive in.
-The Boy Crisis, Warren Farrell. There is something tragically wrong with boys. Part of the problem, perhaps the most frightening problem is that boys are struggling to become men and are doing so later and later if they do at all. I see it in my ministry and among guys I graduated high school and college with. However, this "boy crisis" is not just a crisis for boys. It is a crisis for the women they are around, dating and married to; it is a problem for our culture and communities at large; and it is a dire problem for the church.
I plan to read more. But these are books I will make sure to visit in this next year.