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March 2019

March 08, 2019

Unicorns still exist!

Review of "The Last Unicorn" by Peter Beagle

March 05, 2019

Hearty food for the soul

Review of "The Lord's Supper as the Sign and Meal of the New Covenant" by...

March 01, 2019

The kind of Reformation we still need

Review of "Sola: How the Five Solas are Still Reforming the Church."

February 2019

February 26, 2019

Before Twilight, the sun shone brightly and without sparkles

Review of "Sunshine" by Robin McKinley

February 19, 2019

An excellent little book for new philosophers

Paul Copan's "A Little Book for New Philosophers" should be read by everyone

February 15, 2019

Augustine on the Pelagians

We've covered volumes of the 19th century Church Fathers collection in the past. And as...

February 12, 2019

Liberal Christian, there are answers to be had

What books liberal Christians can read to understand where conservatives are coming from, in response...

February 05, 2019

Malin Hatch is no Pendergast

Review of "Riptide" by Preston & Child

February 01, 2019

Radio Free Church

A review of Bill McKibben's "Radio Free Vermont"

January 2019

January 29, 2019

A melancholy glimpse of a hopeful future

Reflections on Clifford Simak's classic book "City"

January 25, 2019

The Forgotten Book of Eld

Review of Patricia McKillip's "The Forgotten Beasts of Eld"

January 22, 2019

“The Most Dangerous Branch” catches up with conservatives

Nearly half a century after Roe the Left sees the dangers of the Supreme Court

January 18, 2019

Identity Politics Ahead of its Time

Review of A.E. Van Vogt's "The Darkness on Diamondia"

January 15, 2019

In “The Outsider” King wins again

Review of "The Outsider" by Stephen King

January 11, 2019

“Nova” still shines fifty years later

Review of Samuel R. Delany's "Nova"

January 08, 2019

Review of Ryken’s “The Soul in Paraphrase”

Leland Ryken's The Soul in Paraphrase: A Treasury of Classic Devotional Poems is not written for...

December 2018

December 28, 2018

Best Books of 2018

Not the best of the best, but the best of Coyle's 2018 stack of books.

December 21, 2018

Chaos, Cosmos, Creation, and You

Review of "From Chaos to Cosmos" by Stanley Griedanus

December 14, 2018

They’re not “The 10 Suggestions”

Review of Kevin DeYoung's "The Ten Commandments: What They Mean, Why They Matter, and Why...

December 07, 2018

Love Rules!

Review of Jonathan Leeman's "The Rule of Love: How the Local Church Should Reflect God's...

November 2018

November 27, 2018

We’re all Enlightened these days

A review of Anthony Kenny's "The Enlightenment: A Very Brief History"

November 06, 2018

The Wisdom Literature of the Bible isn’t as simple as it looks

Review of "Finding Favour in the Sight of God" by Richard Belcher

October 2018

October 19, 2018

“High-Rise” is an Urban “Lord of the Flies”

J.G. Ballard is a strange writer at the best of times. In the vein of...

October 16, 2018

Just what are “spiritual gifts” anyway?

A review of Thomas Schreiner's "Spiritual Gifts"

October 09, 2018

How the Church should stand on the story of the Bible

Review of "Biblical Theology" by Nick Roark & Robert Cline

October 05, 2018

The Romans may have done a lot for us, but what about the Byzantines?

A review of Averil Cameron's "Byzantine Christianity."

October 02, 2018

Praying rightly is hard, but it will change your life and the life of your church

Review of "Prayer" by John Onwuchekwa

September 2018

September 25, 2018

John Wesley gave me the Flu*

Important Disclaimer: For the first 70 pages or so of this book, I was fairly...

September 21, 2018

Darkmage is a book for Harry Potter fans

If you like fantasy (which I'm still on the fence about, despite being a Tolkien...

September 18, 2018

Augustine on the Manicheans and the Donatists

Volume four of the First Series of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers (got all that?)...