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April 2013

April 17, 2013

The Genealogy of Evangelicalism

Review of The Evangelical Heritage by Bernard Ramm Bernard Ramm’s short book The Evangelical Heritage, traces the...

April 16, 2013

More or Less: A Generous Orthopraxis

Review of More or Less: Choosing a Lifestyle of Excessive Generosity by Jeff Shinabarger Is your...

April 15, 2013

Swamplandia! Should Remain a Short Story

Review of Swamplandia! by Karen Russell Although Swamplandia! somehow stole one of the three finalist...

April 11, 2013

Rambling Through a Classic Western

Review of Warlock by Oakley Hall The sky over your head will be bronze, the ground beneath...

April 08, 2013

The Sense of an Ending: Meditations on Memory and Self-Deception

Review of The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes The Sense of an Ending...

April 04, 2013

How to Murder Sin

Review of The Mortification of Sin by John Owen This is one of the most challenging...

March 2013

March 27, 2013

Doctrine is for Living the Christian Life

Review of The Christian Life: A Doctrinal Introduction by Sinclair Ferguson Sinclair Ferguson’s The Christian Life:...

March 26, 2013

‘On the Road’ to Nowhere

Review of On the Road by Jack Kerouac When I moved to D.C., some friends and...

March 14, 2013

Chasing the Orgastic Future with Jay Gatsby

Review of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald The first time I read The Great...

March 13, 2013

The Romance of the Noble Savage: The Deerslayer

Review of The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper Five white people are holed up in a...

March 12, 2013

Lots of Stupid Christians

Review of The Democratization of American Christianity by Nathan O. Hatch For as long as...

March 07, 2013

A Morally-Complex Game of Thrones

As in real life, sometimes it's hard to see moral clarity in complex situations.

March 06, 2013

Mere Lewis

Review of C.S. Lewis: A Life by Alister McGrath By COYLE NEAL Writing biographies is...

March 05, 2013

A God for Bad Days, Too

Review of Finding God in the Dark: Faith, Disappointment, and the Struggle to Believe by Ted...

February 2013

February 28, 2013

An Absentee Father’s Legacy to His Movie Critic Son

Review of Try to Tell the Story by David Thomson By CHRISTIAN HAMAKER The worldview...

February 26, 2013

Percy Jackson and the Absent Father

Review of Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan by PAUL D....

February 20, 2013

I am what I am, is that all that I am?

Review of Who Do You Think You Are? By Mark Driscoll By COYLE NEAL Mark...

February 18, 2013

Gilead and the Calvinist Desire for Christ

Review of Gilead by Marilynne Robinson By JUSTIN HAWKINS Marilynne Robinson’s authorship of Gilead is the...

February 12, 2013

Introverts, Extroverts, and the Gospel: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Shut My Cake Hole

Review of Quiet by Susan Cain By COYLE NEAL Do you prefer your own company...

February 07, 2013

Follow the Leader

Review of Follow Me by David Platt By COYLE NEAL David Platt will mess you...

February 04, 2013

In Alexander’s Footsteps

Review of Into the Land of Bones: Alexander the Great in Afghanistan by Frank L....

January 2013

January 29, 2013

Book of the Dun Cow

Review of Book of the Dun Cow by Walter Wangerin, Jr. By KENDRICK KUO Aesop’s...

January 28, 2013

Slaughterhouse-Five

Review of Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut By COYLE NEAL Billy Pilgrim has become unstuck in...

January 23, 2013

Jesus Makes You Smarter

Review of Habits of the Mind: Intellectual Life as a Christian Calling, by James W....

January 21, 2013

Christian Scholarship Doesn’t Have to be About Christianity

Excellence: The Character of God and the Pursuit of Scholarly Virtue, by Andreas J. Kostenberger...

January 18, 2013

Screwtape Redux

Review of Operation Screwtape by Andrew Farley By COYLE NEAL This book probably needs no...

January 16, 2013

Kafka’s World Without Grace

Review of The Trial, by Franz Kafka By PAUL D. MILLER A hundred years ago,...

January 15, 2013

Smart Christians

Review of Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind by Mark Noll By PAUL D....

January 10, 2013

Reforming Hollywood: The Ups and Downs of Protestant Film Engagement

Review of Reforming Hollywood: How American Protestants Fought for Freedom at the Movies by William D....

January 09, 2013

Finding Your Soul-Mate

Review of The Sacred Search: What If It’s Not About Who You Marry, but Why?,...