The following is a list of books that form our recommended reading list for the Summer Institute. Each of them touches upon our conference theme in some way, and while they are not required reading, they will nevertheless enrich registrants before attending the conference.
- On the Shoulders of Hobbits: The Road to Virtue in Tolkien and Lewis by Louis Markos (Moody, 2012)
- The Global Public Square: Religious Freedom and the Making of a World Safe for Diversity by Os Guinness (IV Press, 2013)
- The Book That Made Your World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization by Vishal Mangalwadi (Thomas Nelson, 2011)
- Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxas (Thomas Nelson, 2010)
- 7 Men by Eric Metaxas (Thomas Nelson, 2013)
- This Immoral Trade: Slavery in the 21st Century by Caroline Cox (Monarch Books, 2013)
- After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory by Alasdair MacIntyre (Duckworth, 1985)
- Faith, Hope, Love by Josef Pieper (Ignatius, 1997)
- Glittering Vices: A New Look at the Seven Deadly Sins and Their Remedies by Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung (Brazos Press, 2009)
- The Discarded Image by C.S. Lewis
- The Seven Deadly Sins in the Work of Dorothy L. Sayers by Janice Brown (Kent State University Press, 1998)
- Religion Returns to the Public Square: Faith and Policy in Modern America (Woodrow Wilson Center/Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002).
- Doing the Right Thing: Making Moral Choices in a World Full of Options by Scott Rae (Zondervan, 2013)