Understanding the Times - Recommended Reading

Boxed together for the first time, here are the signature spiritual works of our fellow Belfastman, C.S. Lewis. The Signature Classics include:

• Mere Christianity
• The Screwtape Letters
• The Great Divorce
• The Problem of Pain
• Miracles
• A Grief Observed
• Abolition of Man
• The Four Loves

Mere Christianity has changed lives around the world for generations!

Our moral consciousness and moral judgements are proof to the human race that a moral being exists—God.

Lewis explores the core beliefs of Christianity by providing an unequaled opportunity for believers and nonbelievers alike to hear a powerful, rational case for the Christian faith. 

At once wildly comic, deadly serious, and strikingly original, C.S. Lewis gives us the correspondence of the wordly-wise devil to his nephew Wormwood, a novice demon in charge of securing the damnation of an ordinary young man. The Screwtape Letters is the most engaging account of temptation—and triumph over it—ever written. 

Lewis begins with his childhood in Belfast, surveys his boarding school years and his youthful atheism in England, reflects on his experience in World War I, and ends at Oxford, where he became "the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England." As he recounts his lifelong search for joy, Lewis demonstrates its role in guiding him to find God.

The Abolition of Man, C. S. Lewis sets out to persuade his audience of the importance and relevance of universal values such as courage and honor in contemporary society. Both astonishing and prophetic, this book is one of the most debated of Lewis's extraordinary works.

A sinister technocratic organization is gaining power throughout Europe, with a plan to “recondition” society, and it is up to Ransom and his friends to stop this threat by applying age-old wisdom to a new universe dominated by science.

The best short book I have ever read. One plane journey and you're done, and a better man for it!  Get a copy!!

Bruce Barton was the original 'Mad Man' - an Ad Man from Madison Avenue. However, he presents Jesus as the world's first advertising man, a great business executive who picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organization that conquered the world.

1st Century Wisdom and 21st century Wit to Build Your Business - a concise and entertaining handbook for what business managers need to know to sign new clients, serve clients, and lead people. 

Written by my brother Mark D. McIntyre, former speechwriter to President George H.W. Bush, this book recognizes the most meaningful human activity is helping other people.

Civilization: The West and the Rest recasts world history with force and wit. Has the zenith of Western power now passed? Ferguson shows how 'the Rest' have downloaded the killer apps the West once monopolized, while the West has literally lost faith in itself. Chronicling the rise and fall of empires alongside clashes (and fusions) of civilizations.

In a world torn by religious conflict, the threats to human dignity are terrifyingly real. Some societies face harsh government repression and brutal sectarian violence, while others are divided by bitter conflicts over religion's place in public life. Is there any hope for living together peacefully?

Os Guinness argues that the way forward for the world lies in promoting freedom of religion and belief for people of all faiths and none. 

Find out why US interest in the Middle East will wane; why Australia is now beginning an epic contest with China; how Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and the UK are cleverly positioning themselves for greater power; why Ethiopia can control Egypt; and why Europe’s next refugee crisis looms closer than we think, as does a cutting-edge arms race to control space.

The crisis of the modern welfare state is more than a crisis of government. Private charities that dispense aid indiscriminately while ignoring the moral and spiritual needs of the poor are also to blame. Like animals in the zoo at feeding time, the needy are given a plate of food but rarely receive the love and time that only a person can give.

Funny, provocative and unswervingly perceptive, An Immigrant's Love letter to the West interrogates the developing sense of self-loathing the Western sphere has adopted and offers an alternative perspective.

Before God is love He is holy.  “Holy, holy, holy” says both Isaiah and the Apostle John.  His love is first a holy love. The Scriptures tell us that "without holiness no one will see the Lord” (Heb 12:14 NIV).  Tozer’s book is a wonderful primer for those seeking to know the true God and His holiness.

This book chronicles how the combat experiences of WW I shaped the theology and writing of both C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. “War is hell” is not quite accurate: “War reveals hell”.  Lewis and Tolkien both made a conscious decision to tell the truth of what had been revealed to them in the War through story rather than historical narrative.  We would not have The Lord of the Rings or The Chronicles of Narnia is it were not for the trenches of WW I.

Set in a business rather than religious context this book speaks to the leadership principles of a 450+ year old “company” known as the Jesuits. Those principals include self-awareness, ingenuity, love, and heroism. Four principals that were lived and exercised before technology, the Internet and social media. These are time tested principles that leaders today would be well advised to understand and embrace.