Books and podcasts

For those looking to learn more about L’Abri and engage with some of the most commonly-discussed topics and ideas, we have compiled a list of resources below. Thoughtful and critical engagement is encouraged when reading any of these recommended books or articles.

Our recommendations of non-L’Abri material come with a caveat. We do not necessarily endorse or agree with all of the content within these publications, but include them for your interest and reflection. They should be considered important works be aware of concerning our world, culture and the Christian faith.

For L’Abri audio lectures (over 2,500 lectures from 1960 and later), see the L’Abri ideas library.

For L’Abri podcasts:

Francis Schaeffer

  • True Spirituality
  • Trilogy: The God Who Is There/Escape From Reason/He Is There and He Is Not Silent
  • The Complete Works of Francis Schaeffer (5 Volume Set)
  • How should we then live

Edith Schaeffer

  • L’Abri
  • The Life of Prayer
  • The Hidden Art of Homemaking
  • What Is A Family?

Dick Keyes

  • Beyond Identity: Finding Your Way in the Image and Character of God
  • Chameleon Christianity: Moving Beyond Safety and Conformity
  • Seeing Through Cynicism: A Reconsideration of the Power of Suspicion
  • Other Books by Dick Keyes

Os Guinness

  • The Call: Finding and fulfilling the central purpose of your life
  • Dining with the Devil: The Megachurch Movement Flirts with Modernity
  • When No One Sees: The Importance of Character In An Age of Image
  • Other books by Os Guinness

Richard Winter

Wim Rietkerk

Jerram Barrs

Metaphor and Worldview by Aaron Fortune

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A look at the notion of metaphor, informed by the work of Lakoff and Johnson, and what it adds to the how we understand systems of belief.

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Grappling with Grace — Richard Bradford Swiss L'Abri

Grace is something we talk about all the time and is central to the Christian message. But it is all too often not our lived reality. This episode is a wrestling with that tension and a call to better understand the love of God in the face of our legalism and perfectionism.
  1. Grappling with Grace — Richard Bradford
  2. Metaphor and Worldview – Aaron Fortune
  3. Singleness and Disenfranchised Grief – Katrina Fortune
  4. On Living in the Desert – Jacob Marques Rollison
  5. Is God a Social Construct? – Dave Friedrich

On Living in the Desert by Jacob Marques Rollison

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This guest lecture examines what we may learn from looking at the theme of desert in the Bible. To do this, Dr. Marques Rollison presents a look at a newly published essay by the late french theologian Jacques Ellul. (Q&A at end of talk).

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Imagination and Hope by Aaron Fortune

 

 

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Our imaginations are things that we talk about a lot, but sometimes its hard to take them seriously. We will look at how they are important to our lives and their role in our ability to see hope or despair in situations. Also, there a discussion about Hume, Kant, and some assorted poets if that’s interesting to you.

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Irony, Cynicism & Hope by Richard Bradford

Swiss-Labri-podcast-logoWe live in a society that many of us feel leaves much to be improved. As we are trying to imagine a better world, we can get trapped and discouraged. We can become cynical and even hateful. This is all the more frustrating when hatred is one of the things that we are trying to fight against. There are no easy answers to this, but the ideas in this lecture can be helpful reminders when thinking of these things.

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Podcast: Boredom by Richard Bradford

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Submit discussion questions for our next episode in comments below.

Why are we so bored? What does this mean for us spiritually? How do we respond to boredom and where does it come from?

In this lecture we begin to try to grapple with answers to these questions.

Please leave questions and comments below so that we make them part of our discussion of the lecture in our next episode. More info.

 

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