Thanks to all who attended and helped make our 2025 seminar such a success. We will be posting resources from the seminar here.
We currently only have the audio from the first and fourth sessions of our seminar.
First session:
Fourth session:
Here are the references mentioned by our seminar speakers.
Technology Use
Haidt, Jonathan. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness. New York: Penguin, 2024.
Hari, Johann. Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention–and How to Think Deeply Again. New York: Crown, 2023.
Lennox, John C. 2084 and the AI Revolution: How Artificial Intelligence Informs Our Future. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2024.
Lukianoff, Greg and Jonathan Haidt. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting up a Generation for Failure. New York: Penguin, 2019.
Newport, Cal. Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World. New York: Penguin, 2019.
O’Callaghan, Sean and Paul A. Hoffman. AI Shepherds and Electric Sheep: Leading and Teaching in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2025.
Gender Identity
Bahnsen, Greg. Homosexuality: a Biblical View. Ada: Baker Publishing Group: 1978
Burk, Denny. 2015. Transforming Homosexuality: What the Bible Says about Sexual Orientation and Change. Phillipsburg: P&R Publishing, 2015.
DeYoung, Kevin. What Does the Bible Really Teach about Homosexuality? Wheaton: Crossway, 2025
Haidt, Jonathan. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness. New York: Penguin, 2024.
Pierre, Jeremy “Desire and Identity in Today’s Culture” Tabletalk, June 2024, vol 48, no 6.
Trueman, Carl, “The Problem with Sex and Identity” https://youtu.be/mluHwGyV_Iw?si=u-oCnN_lsc98FHgT
Critical Theory
Baucham, Voddie T. Fault Lines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism’s Looming Catastrophe. Simon and Schuster, 2021.
Jacobs, Alan. How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds. Crown Currency, 2017.
Noll, Mark A. The Civil War as a Theological Crisis. Univ of North Carolina Press, 2006.
Shenvi, Neil, and Pat Sawyer. Critical Dilemma: The Rise of Critical Theories and Social Justice Ideology—Implications for the Church and Society. Harvest House Publishers. 2023.
Strachan, Owen. Christianity and Wokeness: How the Social Justice Movement Is Hijacking the Gospel – and the Way to Stop It. Regnery Faith. 2024.
Trueman, Carl R. The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution. Crossway. 2020.
———. To Change All Worlds: Critical Theory from Marx to Marcuse. B&H Publishing Group, 2024.
Wells, David F. The Courage to Be Protestant: Truth-lovers, Marketers, and Emergents in the Postmodern World. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2008.
Cancel Culture
Castaldo, Chris. “Why Cancel Culture Needs the Breathtaking Mercy of God’s Kingdom.” The Gospel Coalition, April 5, 2024. https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/cancel-culture-mercy/.
Lukianoff, Greg, and Jonathan Haidt. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure. New York, NY London: Penguin Press, 2018.
Lukianoff, Greg, and Rikki Schlott. The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All―But There Is a Solution. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2023.
The Salt Lake Tribune. “Ross Douthat: Ten Theses about Cancel Culture.” https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2020/07/15/ross-douthat-ten-theses/.
Trueman, Carl R., and Rod Dreher. The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution. Wheaton: Crossway, 2020.