2025 Speakers’ Resources
Listed alphabetically by speaker’s last name; bold = speaker’s own website/ministry
Tripp & Megan Almon
G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy (1908) (one option on Amazon)
Paul M. Gould, A Good and True Story: Eleven Clues to Understanding Our Universe and Your Place In It (Brazos Press, 2022) (on Amazon)
Timothy Keller, Walking with God Through Pain and Suffering (Penguin Books, 2015) (on Amazon)
Greg Koukl, The Story of Reality: How the World Began, How It Ends, and Everything Important that Happens in Between (Zondervan, 2017) (on Amazon)
C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man: How Education Develops Man's Sense of Morality (1943) (on Amazon)
C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain (1940) (on Amazon)
Hunter Baker
Hunter Baker, Political Thought: A Student’s Guide (Crossway, 2012) (on Amazon)
C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man: How Education Develops Man's Sense of Morality (1943) (on Amazon)
Skip Burzumato
Christian Smith, The Sacred Project of American Sociology (Oxford University Press, 2014) (on Amazon)
Brad Wilcox, Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization (Broadside Books, 2024) (on Amazon)
Todd Cothran
Charles W. Colson & Nancy Pearcey, How Now Shall We Live? (Tyndale House, 2004, orig. 1999) (on Amazon)
Douglas Groothius, Christian Apologetics: A Comprehensive Case for Biblical Faith, 2nd ed. (IVP Academic, 2022, orig. 2011) (on Amazon)
Greg Koukl, The Story of Reality: How the World Began, How It Ends, and Everything Important That Happens in Between (Zondervan, 2017) (on Amazon)
Greg Koukl, Tactics, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions (Zondervan, 2019) (on Amazon)
J. P. Moreland, Love Your God with All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul (NavPress, 2012) (on Amazon)
J. P. Moreland, Scaling the Secular City: A Defense of Christianity (Baker Academic, 1987) (on Amazon)
Jeff Myers & David Noebel, Understanding the Times: A Survey of Competing Worldviews (David C. Cook, rev. 2015, orig. 2006) (on Amazon)
Nancy Pearcey, Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity (Crossway, 2008) (on Amazon)
James W. Sire, The Universe Next Door: A Basic Worldview Catalog (IVP Academic, 2020, orig. 1976) (on Amazon)
Jennifer Dimeo
Natasha Crain, Faithfully Different: Regaining Biblical Clarity in a Secular Culture (Harvest House, 2022) (on Amazon)
Greg Koukl, Street Smarts: Using Questions to Answer Christianity’s Toughest Challenges (Zondervan, 2023) (on Amazon)
Greg Koukl, Tactics, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions (Zondervan, 2019) (on Amazon)
John C. Lennox, Can Science Explain Everything? (The Good Book Company, 2019) (on Amazon)
Rebecca McLaughlin, Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World’s Largest Religion (Crossway, 2019) (on Amazon)
Mike Winger, Bible Thinker: https://biblethinker.org
Charles Dumaresq
Associates for Biblical Research: biblearchaelogy.org
Titus Kennedy, Unearthing the Bible: 101 Archaeological Discoveries That Bring the Bible to Life (Harvest House, 2020) (on Amazon)
Joel Kramer, Where God Came Down: The Archaeological Evidence (Expedition Bible Publishing, 2020) (on Amazon)
J. Randall Price with H. Wayne House, Zondervan Handbook of Biblical Archaeology: A Book by Book Guide to Archaeological Discoveries Related to the Bible (Zondervan Academic, 2017) (on Amazon)
Luke Forister
Ken Boa & Jenny Abel, Recalibrate Your Life: Navigating Transitions with Purpose and Hope (IVP, 2023) (on Amazon)
Scott Klusendorf
Scott Klusendorf, The Case for Life: Equipping Christians to Engage the Culture, 2nd edition (Crossway, 2023) (on Amazon)
Christopher Kaczor, The Ethics of Abortion: Women’s Rights, Human Life, and the Question of Justice, 2nd ed. (Routledge, 3rd ed. 2022, orig. 2015) (on Amazon)
Peter Kreeft, The Unaborted Socrates: A Dramatic Debate on the Issues Surrounding Abortion (InterVarsity Press, 1983) (on Amazon)
Sam Raju
Engage International: www.engagein.org
Faith Informed Podcast: www.youtube.com/@engageint_faithinformed
Paul Copan, Is God a Moral Monster?: Making Sense of the Old Testament God (Baker Books, 2011) (on Amazon)
Paul Copan, Is God a Vindictive Bully?: Reconciling Portrayals of God in the Old and New Testaments (Baker Academic, 2022) (on Amazon)
Alan Shlemon
Stand to Reason: www.str.org
Greg Koukl, Tactics, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions (Zondervan, 2019) (on Amazon)
Greg Koukl, Never Read a Bible Verse (Stand to Reason): https://www.str.org/neverreadabibleverse
Nabeel Qureshi, Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus: A Devout Muslim Encounters Christianity (Zondervan, 2018) (on Amazon)
Alan Shlemon, The Ambassador’s Guide to Islam (Stand to Reason, 2010) (on Amazon)
Alan Shlemon, The Ambassador’s Guide to Understanding Homosexuality (Stand to Reason, 2013) (on Amazon)
Jordan Weethee
J. Warner Wallace, Cold-Case Christianity (Updated & Expanded Edition): A Homicide Detective Investigates the Claims of the Gospels (David C. Cook, 2023) (on Amazon)
Additional Recommendations from the ThinkWell Team
Technology-Related:
For Parents Specifically: View here (email sent on June 27 to parents of TW25 students)
For Students and Adults:
Nicholas Carr, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (W. W. Norton, rev. 2020, orig. 2010) (on Amazon)
Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Penguin Press, 2024) (on Amazon)
Samuel D. James, Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age (Crossway, 2023) (on Amazon)
Brett McCracken et al., Scrolling Ourselves to Death: Reclaiming Life in a Digital Age (Crossway, 2025) (on Amazon)
Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Penguin Books, anniversary ed. 2005, orig. 1985) (on Amazon)
Neil Postman, Technopoly: The Surrender to Digital Culture (Vintage, 1993) (on Amazon)
Tony Reinke, 12 Ways Your Phone Is Changing You (Crossway, 2017) (on Amazon)
Tony Reinke, God, Technology, and the Christian Life (Crossway, 2022) (on Amazon)
Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More of Technology and Less from Each Other (Basic Books, rev. 2017, orig. 2011) (on Amazon)
Sherry Turkle, Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age (Penguin Books, 2016) (on Amazon)
Websites/Ministries with a Plethora of Resources & Training:
Summit Ministries: www.summit.org
Impact 360 Institute: www.impact360institute.org
Stand to Reason: www.str.org
CrossExamined Academy: https://crossexamined.org
Maven Truth (Brett Kunkle): http://maventruth.com
Cold Case Christianity: http://coldcasechristianity.com
The Worldview Bulletin Newsletter: https://worldviewbulletin.substack.com
Christopher Yuan/The Holy Sexuality Project: http://holysexuality.com