The Religious Fervor of American Politics

In this episode of Life and Books and Everything, Kevin, Collin, and Justin discuss the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her vacant seat on the Supreme Court, Classic liberalism and its critics, which books were most formative in their youth, and what career they each would have chosen if not for the ones they are in now.

This episode of Life and Books and Everything is brought to you by Crossway. The Crossway title we want to highlight in this episode is the ESV Every Day Bible: 365 Readings through the Whole Bible. This bible was designed from the ground up to be an inviting daily-reading Bible, to help readers achieve their goal of reading through the Bible in a year. Formative books in our youth:

Kevin:

• Know What You Believe by Paul Little
• Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin  
• The Puritans: Their Origins and Successors by Martin Lloyd-Jones
• God in the Wasteland: The Reality of Truth in a World of Fading Dreams by David Wells   
• No Place for Truth: or Whatever Happened to Evangelical Theology? by David Wells 
• Losing Our Virtue: Why the Church Must Recover Its Moral Vision by David Wells 

Collin:

• Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine by Wayne Grudem
• Jonathan Edwards: A Life by George Marsden  
• The Cost of Discipleship by Bonhoeffer 
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky 
• The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism by Carl Henry 

Justin:

• The Cross and the Switchblade by David Wilkerson
• Comeback by Dave Dravecky
• Confessions (Oxford World's Classics) by St. Augustine 
• Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics by William Lane Craig
• Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist by John Piper
• The Pursuit of Holiness by Jerry Bridges
• The Doctrine of the Knowledge of God (A Theology of Lordship) by John Frame