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May 06, 2025

All creation cries out

Children's books have the option (usually not available to adult or YA novels) of leaning...

April 2025

April 29, 2025

Building for the wrong reasons

How do we view ourselves and how does that match up to reality? That's actually...

March 2025

March 04, 2025

John Owen (not) for everyone

I'm normally something of a completist with it comes to reading classic works. Certainly abridgements...

February 2025

February 28, 2025

Future of Media 7: Animation

As we continue to predict what the future of media will look like in our...

January 2025

January 28, 2025

How to Die Well

How should we die? I think it was one of the Wesleys who noted that...

January 21, 2025

Disagreeing well

Continuing the not-necessarily-for-everyone exercise of reading through the Schaff set of Church Fathers (if my...

December 2024

December 24, 2024

Best of 2024

It's been a quiet few months at Schaeffer's Ghost thanks to some chaos IRL (mostly...

July 2024

July 19, 2024

Repost of “Hillbilly Elegy” review

With the nomination of J.D. Vance as Donald Trump's running mate, I thought it worthwhile...

July 12, 2024

Two more from 9Marks

9Marks has been slowly releasing a series of pamphlets in the "Church Questions" series. Each...

July 05, 2024

The end of the world

Does God judge the earth? What does that judgment look like? Is it a fleeting-but-still-terrible...

June 2024

June 28, 2024

You can go home again

Have you ever read the parable of the prodigal son and thought "they should rewrite...

June 21, 2024

Using your mind for science

Christianity and the sciences have fallen on hard times in the last century and a...

June 14, 2024

Restoring our Confidence

How should Christians live in the modern world? This is of course not a new...

June 07, 2024

Coming of age in the Galaxy

In the middle of the 20th century, an ongoing concern of science fiction writers (and...

May 2024

May 31, 2024

Proclaiming Christ Still

You'd think that when a theologian passes away, their scholarly output would cease. And yet...

May 10, 2024

We have the power

Just what is the mission of the church? This is at the same time a...

May 03, 2024

The Sword of Winter

It's always interesting to go back to books you read in the past and judge...

April 2024

April 26, 2024

The Languages of People

In what probably won't (but easily could) be a series on how Science Fiction so...

April 19, 2024

The Internet Melts Your Brain

Samuel James isn't offering anything new (the best books don't), but he brings together a...

April 12, 2024

Women aren’t really from Venus…

Every so often I am reminded just how visionary science fiction authors can be. Granted,...

March 2024

March 08, 2024

Leading the Flock

What is being a pastor? Is it more like being a teacher? Is it more...

March 01, 2024

Memorizing the Bible

Every once in a while we come across a book that is convicting, challenging, obviously...

February 2024

February 23, 2024

Chrysostom on John and Hebrews

After several years of effort, I've finally wrapped up the final volume of the First...

February 16, 2024

The shape of things to come

As I opened the blank page to write a review of Andre Naselli's short book Predestination:...

February 09, 2024

The fall and rise of Mike Cosper

In the summer of 2021, Evangelicals across America tuned in to Christianity Today's podcast "The Rise and...

January 2024

January 26, 2024

1602 is a good year that falls flat

Neil Gaiman's 1602 is a clever idea, well-written (as we should expect from Gaiman), and generally faithful...

January 12, 2024

Why you should be reading Jonathan Edwards

I don't know who the greatest living Christian scholar is, but there is a good...

January 05, 2024

How to Be a Friend

Review of "Jesus and the Gift of Friendship" by Trillia Newbell

December 2023

December 29, 2023

Best books of 2023

Or what you should be reading in 2024

December 21, 2023

How to understand the world

Review of "Remaking the World" by Andrew Wilson