Last time I blogged on discipleship of the mind, I raised some serious warnings about relying on the Internet too much. Here we are, though: me writing, and you reading. It’s pretty strong evidence we both think there’s at least something to be gained here. And there is, just as long as we don’t let it be our whole reading diet.

Christian-Oriented Libraries on the Internet
Some people in my generation can remember having to drive to the library to find an answer to a question. Sounds almost quaint now, doesn’t it? In this blog post I want to steer you toward some of the better libraries for Christian thinking. This list won’t be complete, you can guarantee that. I’m almost certain I’m having a momentary memory lapse, and I’m not even including all of my own favorites. Please use the comments to add to the list, and accept my advance apologies for missing some of the best.

• The Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview: a project to gather the best from all over the Internet
• Last Seminary: An academic resource for Christian research and education
• LeaderU: Thousands of popular and scholarly articles on a wide variety of topics
• Library of Historical Apologetics: Thousands more articles, with an emphasis on classics; under development but with much promise
• Reasonable Faith: William Lane Craig’s home on the Internet, with hundreds of articles
• Summit Ministries: More excellent articles
• BeThinking.org: And even more, both popular and semi-scholarly
• Bede’s Library: A resource not widely enough known, from James Hannam, historian of philosophy
• Apologetics 315: My favorite source for up-to-the-minute audio and reading resources
• Jesus.org: “Your Questions, Real Answers”

Genuine Internet Libraries (thousands of public domain books in electronic format)

• The Christian Classics Ethereal Library
• Project Gutenberg

Contrary Views

Thinkers engage contrary views. Here are three of the better places to do that. I endorse the process of studying these views, not the views themselves (or in many cases, the attitudes), mostly because in the end they don’t stand up to good evidence and analysis.

• Infidels.org

• Naturalism.org

• Common Sense Atheism

There are thousands more like these, but this will keep both you and me busy for a good long while.