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ORU Faculty Recommended Reading List

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From the Art Department's Darlene Gaskill

• Art and the Bible by Francis Schaeffer
  
• Christ and the Fine Arts: An Anthology of Pictures, Poetry, Music, and Stories Centering in the Life of Christ by Cynthia Pearl Maus
  
• Called to Teach by Kenneth O. Gangel Ph.D.
  
• It Was Good: Making Art to the Glory of God, Ned Bustard, editor

From the Biology Department's John Korstad, Ph.D.

• The Purpose-Driven Life by Rick Warren
  
• Leading With the Heart by Mike Krzyzewski
  
• Abandoned to God by Oswald Chambers

From the Engineering and Physics Department's Nathan Meleen, Ph.D.

• Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
  
• Fox's Book of Martyrs: A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Deaths of the Early Christian and Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe and William Byron Forbush (editor)
  
• In His Steps by Charles M. Sheldon
  
• Through Gates of Splendor by Elisabeth Elliot
  
• The Cross and the Switchblade by David Wilkerson
  
• None of These Diseases by S. I. McMillen, M.D.
  
• If I Perish, I Perish by Major Ian Thomas
  
• The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom
  
• How To Think About Evolution by L. Duane Thurman
  
• The Fingerprint of God by Hugh Ross

Dr. Meleen's honorable mention list:

• Peace Child by Don Richardson
  
• Lords of the Earth by Don Richardson
  
• Eternity in Their Hearts by Don Richardson
  
• Bruchko by Bruce Olson
  
• They Speak With Other Tongues by John L. Sherrill
  
• The Creator and the Cosmos (and others) by Hugh Ross
  
• Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe by Peter Ward, Donald Brownlee

From the English Department's William Epperson, Ph.D.

• The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer, modern translation by Robert Fagles
  
• The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
  
• The Inferno modern translation by either Mark Musa, Allen Mandelbaum, or Robert Pinsky
  
• Paradise Lost by John Milton
  
• Complete plays by William Shakespeare
  
• The Silence by Susako Endo
  
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  
• Walden by Henry David Thoreau
  
• Bread and Wine by Ignazio Silone

Some modern American favorites:

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
• The Bear, a short novel by William Faulkner
  
• The Sun Also Rises and For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
  
• Call It Sleep by Henry Roth
  
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
  
• Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
  
• Song of Solomon and Beloved by Toni Morrison
  
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  
• The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor
  
• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
  
• Love in the Ruins by Walker Percy
  
• Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
  
• Peace Like a River by Leif Enger

From the History, Humanities, and Government Department's John W. Swails III, Ph.D.

• Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
  
• Modern Times by Paul Johnson
  
• The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman
  
• The Problem of Pain by C. S. Lewis
  
• History of the Arabs by Philip K. Hitti
  
• Civilization and Its Enemies by Lee Harris
  
• The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  
• The Last Lion [two volumes: 1) Visions of Glory and 2) Alone] by William Manchester
  
• The War Against the Jews by Lucy Dawidowicz
  
• Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard

From the Mathematics Department's Debra Olson Sowell, Ph.D.

• Can a Smart Person Believe in God? by Michael Guillen, Ph.D.
  
• Five Equations That Changed the World by Michael Guillen, Ph.D.

From the School of Theology and Missions' Edward Decker, Ph.D.

• On Becoming a Person by Carl Rogers
  
• The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
  
• A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
  
• Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time by Marcus Borg
  
• The Heart of Christianity by Marcus Borg
  
• What's So Amazing About Grace? by Philip Yancey
  
• The Jesus I Never Knew by Philip Yancey
  
• The Moral Context of Pastoral Care by Don Browning
  
• Christians Who Counsel by Ray Anderson
  
• Care of Souls: Revisioning Christian Nurture and Counsel by David G. Benner
  
• The Living Human Document: Re-Visioning Pastoral Counseling in a Hermeneutical Mode by Charles V. Gerkin

From the School of Business's Walter MacMillan, Ph.D.

• The Chinese TAO of Business by George T. Haley, Usha C. V. Haley, and Chin Tiong Tan
  
• Persuasion: The Art of Getting What You Want by Dave Lakhani
  
• China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World by Ted C. Fishman
  
• Jesus in Beijing: How Christianity Is Transforming China and Changing the Global Balance of Power by David Aikman
  
• Jack: Straight from the Gut by Jack Welch and John A. Byrne
  
• First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman
  
• The Art of War by Sun Tzu and Samuel B. Griffith (Introduction)
  
• NUTS!: Southwest Airlines' Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success by Kevin Freiberg and Jackie Freiberg
  
• Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency by Tom DeMarco

From the School of Business's David Dyson, Ph.D.

• Now Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham and Donald Clifton
  
• The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman
  
• Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices by Peter Drucker
  
• Eight Habits of the Heart by Clifton Taulbert
  
• Eat Mor Chikin: Inspire More People by S. Truett Cathy
  
• The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
  
• An Enemy Called Average by John Mason
  
• Generations by Neil Howe and William Strauss
  
• Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by James Collins and Jerry I. Porras
  
• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't by James Collins and Jerry I. Porras
  
• The 5 Patterns of Extraordinary Careers by James M. Citrin and Richard Smith

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