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December 23, 2025

Schaff on Christmas

On your "to-read-someday" list should be Philip Schaff's 8-volume history of the church. Not least...

December 19, 2025

The Bible on the Moon

I am wrapping up 2025 in part by listening to Andrew Chaikin's A Man on the...

December 16, 2025

All the Grinch movies ranked

Are there really enough movies about the Grinch to even bother ranking them? Well, there's...

December 12, 2025

Repost: Christmas in the Country

Four years ago I posted a review of every Country Music Christmas album ever. Okay,...

December 09, 2025

Dante’s Way

I've said on here before that the Inklings are having a moment. Yet another example...

December 05, 2025

A Response to Josiah Gogarty

Over at GQ, Josiah Gogarty has a delightful little reflection on the music of A Charlie...

December 02, 2025

Sayers on Cinema

The Inklings and their generation are having a moment in the Evangelical world. Twenty years...

November 2025

November 07, 2025

The Biggest Advent

As Evangelicals continue the (entirely right) process of "getting high", a recent book nudging that...

October 2025

October 21, 2025

Three for the wee ones

Board books are both hard and easy to write (I assume--never having written one myself)....

September 2025

September 19, 2025

Take Time to Be Holy

How do you grow as a believer? Do you think that you'll grow better in...

September 16, 2025

Not your grandfather’s vampires

Vampires came of age a few years after I did with the publication of Twilight, and...

September 12, 2025

Dever on the Bible

Years ago and early in his ministry at Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, DC,...

August 2025

August 19, 2025

Whitefield on the Christian Life

Crossway's series of theologians on the Christian life (many of which are reviewed here) continues...

August 15, 2025

Religion and Republic: Introduction

I'm still not committing to blogging through all of Miles Smith's recent(ish) book Religion &...

August 08, 2025

Religion & Republic: Preface

I'm reading through Miles Smith's recent(ish) book Religion & Republic: Christian America from the Founding to...

July 2025

July 25, 2025

In support of the draft

Nearly thirty years later than most people, I finally got around to reading J.D. Salinger's The...

July 22, 2025

Something’s Wrong in the Neighborhood

What's wrong with America today? There are a lot of answers to that question, but...

July 18, 2025

Screens melt our brains

We all know that we're addicted to technology. At this point, it's not even really...

July 14, 2025

Though he is dead, he still speaks.

John MacArthur has gone to be with the Lord. With him, passes one of the...

July 11, 2025

Blast from the Past

In a moment of nostalgia inspired by it being free to stream on Prime (with...

July 08, 2025

The unknown in the modern world

Josh Malerman's recent book Incidents Around the House is an interesting one for a lot of reasons....

July 04, 2025

What to read on the 4th of July

Okay, maybe you won't be reading all of these books today. (If it weren't for ebooks you...

July 01, 2025

Grimke on the Christian Life

Crossway's "on the Christian life" series continues to be excellent with the addition of Drew...

June 2025

June 27, 2025

Horror works for everything

This is the final part of a series on the cultural moment of horror I've...

June 24, 2025

Jack Ryan at 41

Okay, he's not really 41 (the internet tells me he was born in 1950, so...

June 20, 2025

Make it Political

This is the sixth part of a series on the cultural moment of horror Horror...

June 17, 2025

Nicaea for today

What do you believe? That can be a surprisingly hard question if it's sprung on...

June 13, 2025

Anyone can do it

This is the fifth part of a series on the cultural moment of horror Horror...

June 06, 2025

Choose your own length

This is the fourth part of a series on the cultural moment of horror Horror...

June 03, 2025

Keller on the Christian Life

Let's start with some confusion. The book under review here is called Tim Keller on the...