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June 2022

June 17, 2022

“The Slow March of Light” Highlights The Human Spirit’s Strength

The summer of 1961 was undoubtedly one to remember. Between 1949 and 1961, 2.5 million...

June 17, 2022

“A Brilliant Night of Stars and Ice” Recounts The Titanic’s Tragic Night

Everyone knows the tragic story of the Titanic; it's the subject of numerous documentaries and...

July 2017

July 19, 2017

“Movies Are Prayers”: A New Way of Discussing Film

Movies are Prayers is one of the best books that I’ve read this year, and...

May 2017

May 05, 2017

Symbols of Faith in “Take the Flag”

A symbol can sometimes convey an idea better than a thousand words of explication. This...

March 2017

March 23, 2017

Learning About the Christian Faith: The Bible Is My Best Friend

By Jake Raabe Children’s Bibles are a difficult sub-genre for publishers to work with. The...

January 2017

January 02, 2017

Who Are We to Judge? A Review of ‘Paul Behaving Badly’

These are strange times for the apostle Paul. The contemporary resurgence of Calvinism and Reformed...

July 2016

July 26, 2016

God Unbound: Wisdom for the Church in Anxious Times

My relationship with the books of the Bible is the same as it is with...

July 25, 2016

What Makes Someone Jewish? A Book Review

By Sarahbeth Caplin It was with great personal interest that I read Jewish-Christian Difference and Modern Jewish...

July 20, 2016

Jewish-Christian Difference and Modern Jewish Identity

In his new book on Jewish identity, Shalom Goldman shows us that it’s not easy...

May 2016

May 11, 2016

Called To Community: A Review

Book publishers spend a lot of time and energy on subtitles. Sometimes titles don’t quite get...

April 2016

April 19, 2016

“Honestly”: Riffing on Messy Lives, Jesus, and Jazz

Attitudes, especially bad ones, pop up at the most interesting moments. At a church we...

April 18, 2016

The Power of the Cross: A Review

One might wonder why an established old school publisher like Moody Press would put out...

February 2016

February 22, 2016

40 Days of Decrease: A Different Kind of Lent Book

Lent is a partisan animal. How much we pay attention to it largely depends on...

October 2015

October 23, 2015

Happiness: A Book Review

[Editor's Note: This post is part of a conversation at the Patheos Book Club on the...

August 2015

August 17, 2015

Encountering Jesus: Real Stories from Real People

Book Review Encountering Jesus: Modern-Day Stories of His Supernatural Presence and Power Compiled by James...

August 13, 2015

Daddy God: A Review of Abba’s Heart

by Wendi Matusic If you, like me, can't see the word "Abba" without thinking "Dancing...

July 2015

July 20, 2015

Curious about Christianity? A Review of ‘Tweeting with God’

by Jane Dudley Father Michel Remery, a Dutch priest, has written Tweeting with God, from...

July 16, 2015

Tweeting with God … and Young Adults: A Book Review

by Kamilla Ludwig Tweeting with God was an unexpected pleasure. What started out as a young...

July 15, 2015

A Fine Book, With One Small Protest: A Review of ‘Tweeting with God’

by Kate Yeago Tweeting with God is an introduction to Catholicism, a sort of “200...

July 15, 2015

Tweeting with God: A Book Review

By Sherry Antonetti The title, "Tweeting with God,” conjured visions of a short pithy book...

July 09, 2015

Moving Toward Divinization: A Review of ‘Broken Gods’

By Wendi Matusic Broken Gods, a new book by Gregory Popcak, an internationally recognized expert in Catholic pastoral...

July 09, 2015

Dissecting Patriachy and Biblical Manhood: A Review of ‘Maelstrom’

To appreciate quality, we must slow down. In fact, quality insists that we slow down....

June 2015

June 12, 2015

Mothers and Daughters, and Faith

By Sarahbeth Caplin Now Featured in the Patheos Book Club Undivided: A Muslim Daughter, Her Christian,...

June 05, 2015

Undivided: A Story of Love, Not Agreement

By Holly Baer Patricia and Alana Raybon found themselves enraptured in the new American story:...

June 03, 2015

Design Your Own Pilgrimage: A Review of ‘The Soul of a Pilgrim’

Book Review of The Soul of a Pilgrim Now Featured at the Patheos Book Club by...

May 2015

May 20, 2015

“Redeeming Sex” by Debra Hirsch

Debra Hirsch gives voice to the voiceless in her new book about sex.

April 2015

April 24, 2015

Runaway Radical: A Groundbreaking Expose of Systematic Abuse

By Kevin C. Neece In Runaway Radical, Amy Hollingsworth continues to do what she does...

April 01, 2015

Runaway Radical: On Spiritual Abuse and Telling the Truth

"We're often told there's some sort of vending machine equation to Christianity. Insert the currency...

March 2015

March 05, 2015

Maybe It’s Less About What We Do and More About How We Go About Doing It: A Review of ‘The Grand Paradox’

If you enjoy pretentious, feel-good Christian non-sense written by men who claim to have a...

March 02, 2015

Tongue Pierced: A Review

Nelson Searcy and Jennifer Dykes Henson’s Tongue Pierced: How the Words You Speak Transform the...