
The Essential Bookshelf
Reading is essential for growth in excellence. It is a window to great and important ideas. An essential bookshelf is a canon of great literature that everybody ought to read. This is my collection of good, great and essential books.

The Vanishing American Adult
Ben Sasse
Description:
This book describes the origins of this breakdown of a shared sense of coming-of-age and his path to regaining a shared understanding of adulthood
Tags:
Culture, Personal Development, Adulthood, Work, Citizenship

Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl
Description:
In this book, Frankl discusses the experience and response to prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp. Those who were able to transcend their circumstances were able see spiritual growth and find meaning, even in the suffering they were experiencing.
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Suffering

Toxic Empathy
Allie Beth Stuckey
Description:
Empathy is the idea of being able to share someone else's feeling. But often feelings can mask and hide the truth. Toxic empathy is the idea of making decisions based feelings for another person that are ultimately harmful to that person. In this book, the author discusses various social and cultural ways that an attempt to be empathetic can cause lasting and serious harms for others and society.
Tags:
Trans, Abortion, Immigration, Homosexuality, Social Justice, Bible

God and the Transgender Debate
Andrew Walker
Description:
This book discusses provides a biblical understanding of gender and how Christians should view the transgender debate and treat transgender people.
Tags:
Gender, Transgender, Theology, Bible, Culture

Descriptions and Prescriptions
Michael Emlet
Description:
This book discusses mental health from a biblical perspective and what pastors need to know when counseling people with mental health disorders.
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Health, Healthcare, Theology, Mental Health, Psychiatry, Therapy

Fortitude
Dan Crenshaw
Description:
Tags:
Resilience, Personal Development, Politics
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