In this episode of Thinking Fellows, Caleb Keith, Adam Francisco, Bruce Hillman, and Scott Keith share their summer reading lists, ranging from the Bible and church fathers to history, politics, philosophy, fiction, and swimming. Their conversation explores everything from the transition of Rome from paganism to Christianity and Thomas Sowell's ideas about human nature to the problem of evil and the history of Finland during World War II. They also discuss Lutheran scholarship, vocation and theological disagreement.

• The Bible — New Living Translation (NLT)
• The Quran
• Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles — Thomas Sowell

• On Death and Eternal Life — Gregory of Nyssa
• The Oxford Reading and Philosophy: Problem of Evil — Marilyn McCord Adams (editor)

• The Long Way Home: A Journey into the History of Captain Robert Ford — Ed Dover
• The Fourth Option — Jack Carr
• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold — John le Carré
• Ice — Ulla-Lena Lundberg
• How Finland Survives Stalin: From the Winter War to the Cold War, 1939–1950 — Kimmo Rentola
• Why We Swim — Bonnie Tsui

• The Final Pagan Generation: Rome's Unexpected Path to Christianity — Edward J. Watts
• The Pieper Lectures: The Lutheran Doctrine of Vocation, Vol. 11 — various authors

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