By Brad Vermurlen
Late December means the pastors, seminary professors, and other Christian leaders with whom I’m connected on social media are, once more, sharing their top ten books of the year. As I noted last year, most of the books these leaders select are religiously committed books addressing some aspect of theology, ministry, apologetics, or the Christian life. The books are usually published by evangelical Protestant presses like Zondervan, InterVarsity, Crossway, Eerdmans, Thomas Nelson, Moody, David C. Cook, NavPress, and Baker.
That’s fine and understandable. I benefit from those books too. But too often Christian leaders overlook good and important projects from the secular academy and other “mainstream” sources and scholars. One of my deep convictions—animating much of the work I do with Docent Research Group—is that Christian leaders generally have a lot to benefit from keeping up on sociology (my field) as well as psychology, anthropology, philosophy, political science, history, law, and other disciplines, as well as some journalism.
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