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There’s so much you can read, watch, or listen to out there, it can be tricky to know where to start or what to trust. To help, we commend these carefully-chosen articles, podcasts, books, and talks as a great place to start in your effort to think faithfully and think well—about whatever the topic may be.
Thinking Well About…
- The Problem of Evil (video) – The Thomistic Institute: A great summary of one of the Church’s classic definitions of and responses to evil.
- Tsunami and Theodicy (article) – David Bentley Hart: Can we explain or justify evil? Should we?
- What’s Wrong with the World? (video) – N. T. Wright: How do we make sense of a world where good and evil exist?
- When a Daughter Dies (article) – Ben Witherington
- Are Old Testament Laws Evil (article) – Paul Copan
- Free Will and the Problem of Evil (podcast) – N. T. Wright
- With All This Suffering, How Could There be a God? (video) – Tim Keller
- What to Do with your Sexual Needs: Authentic Sexual Freedom (video) – Christopher West
- Richard Hays’s chapter “Homosexuality” from The Moral Vision of the New Testament
- This link should allow you to read the chapter without buying the book—but then you should buy the book! It’s great.
- 10 Things You Should Know about the Sexual Revolution (article) – Carl R. Truman: A historian of ideas traces the roots of our modern way of thinking about sexuality.
- The Controversial Jesus: Jesus and the Gay Community (podcast) – Jon Tyson
- Click here for podcast notes (Some friends of ours made this condensed transcript—it may help to follow along or take notes.)
- The Controversial Jesus: Jesus and the Trans Community(podcast) – Jon Tyson
- Click here for podcast notes (Soe friends of ours made this condensed transcript—it may help to follow along or take notes.)
- Human Dignity and the Problem with Pornography (video) – Christopher West and Matt Frad
- Pornography & Acedia (article) – Reinhard Hütter: A spiritual analysis of and remedy for, in the Biblical phrase, “the lust of the eyes”
- The Pornography Culture (article) – David Bentley Hart
- Porn & the Curse of Total Sexual Freedom (video) – Bishop Robert Barron
- “God vs. Science” (article) – TIME Magazine interview with Richard Dawkins and Francis Collins
- The Thomistic Institute’s Science and Faith series of videos
- This series of videos explores everything from miracles to quantum mechanics, all guided by the wisdom and writings of St. Thomas Aquinas.
- It also includes a great exploration of the relationship between faith and reason in general.
- “Is Science Opposed to Faith?” (video) – Bishop Robert Barron
- “Science & Genesis” (video) – N. T Wright (Biblical scholar), John Polkinghorne (physicist & pastor), and Alister McGrath (philosopher)
- “The Limits of Method” (article) – David Bentley Hart (hilariously) pointing out the limits of scientific methodology: what kinds of questions it can and cannot answer
- Where the Conflict Really Lies (book) – Alvin Plantinga
- The Tech-Wise Church (video) – Andy Crouch: author of The Tech-Wise Family (which is phenomenal) examines how the formational institutions of the family, the church, and the school can think with greater care and wisdom about technology
- Godspeed (documentary) – Matt & Julie Canlis: A beautiful reflection on the pace at which life, ministry, friendships, and relationship with God flourishes.
- Habits of Mind in an Age of Distraction (article) – Alan Jacobs: Small steps to meet the challenge of hearing God in a technologically distracting environment
- The Case for Digital Asceticism (video) – John Mark Comer
- The Social Dilemma (documentary) – This Netflix doc explores the alarming realities behind the engineering of social media
- Apple Watch: To Wear It Like a Man, or Like a God? (article) – Andy Crouch: What do we want when we want the latest technology?