John reading to kids in 1989

James Montgomery Boice Mind Renewal in a Mindless Age
Harry Blamires The Christian Mind: How a Christian Should Think
Neil Postman Amusing Ourselves to Death

Elizabeth Elliot--all her books but esp. Let Me Be a Woman

Close to first choices

Edith Schaeffer What is a Family?
                         The Hidden Art of Homemaking
                         L'Abri -about the beginning of L'Abri

(Edith Schaeffer's daughter)  Susan Schaeffer Macauley For the Children's Sake 
                  This is a good synopsis of Charlotte Mason's turn of the century books:


"It is books that are a key to the wide world. If you can't do anything else, read all you can."
--Jane Hamilton


Culture:    The Gift of Music by Jane Stuart Smith & Betty Carlson Stuart Smith & Betty Carlson
                  Modern Art and the Death of Culture by H.R.Rookmaaker

Richard Foster 's  Celebration of Discipline     (Also Elizabeth Elliot's Discipline: The Glad Surrender)

Charlotte Bronte's  Jane Eyre  - chapter 27 has good treatment of facing temptation.

Jean Staker Garton's Who Broke the Baby?    Very good on abortion.

Now back in print at long last and VERY WORTH ORDERING (from www.Amazon.com ).
           Arlene Rossen Cardozo's  Woman at Home  (NY: Doubleday & Co., 1976.)

Raymond Franz's  Crisis of Conscience--autobiography of former member of Jehovah's Witness  governing body.

All of C.S.Lewis books esp Chronicles of Narnia
                               and his essay collections The Problem of Pain
                                                                        Mere Christianity

Neil Anderson's Victory Over the Darkness 

Paul Tournier esp. The Meaning of Persons and To Understand Each Other

Earl Wilson's Sexual Sanity  - the best general book we've ever seen on the subject.

But Wendy Shalit's Return to Modesty is even better if you are a young woman--  Read the First Chapter!

Florence Littauer's Blow Away the Black Clouds  (Really practical advice for depression.)

Amy Carmichael's Mimosa  - Incredible story of how God saved and kept an Indian woman
                                                 with no Christian  influences in her life--just a seed of truth every few years.

Our Favorites from OMF BOOKS

David Michell's A Boy's War  (Audio Tapes available)
Pauline Hamilton's To a Different Drum
All of Isobel Kuhn's books!
 Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret
     by Dr.& Mrs.Howard Taylor

Barbara Reed's Beyond the Great Darkness
Rosemary Watson's As the Rockflower Blooms

More favorites from OMF BOOKS
 
The "human" side of missionaries:
Verda Peet's Sometimes I Prefer to Fuss
Sheila Miller's I Can Trace a Rainbow
Larry Dinkin's Help! My Halo is Slipping

Alfred Bosshart's The Guiding Hand

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