I am asking a number of friends to answer the following question: If you could wave a magical wand which caused all Christians to read five books, what works would you pick? Here is the next installment.

Tony Debenport is a dear friend and a careful student of the Bible.  Tony is Senior Program Manager at Lam Research.  Here are Tony’s selections:

The Pentateuch. That isn’t a joke.

On an non-biblical list I’d include:

-A good Church history book covering the last 200 years

-Eusebius History of the Church or perhaps/and  a more recent book on the history of Church heresies/heretics.

-A book on modern entertainment culture:  Amusing Ourselves to Death (Neil Postman)…perhaps Empire of Illusion (Chris Hedges)..on my reading list so I can’t recommend yet.

basically….history, history, history & today.