Listening across the political split A progressive sociologist, concerned about the growing tribal divisions in American society and politics, travels to the Louisiana bayou…
Excerpt: The Second Mountain (David Brooks, 2019)
This is a brief excerpt from: The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life by David Brooks (New York, NY: Random House; 2019)…
Once Upon a River (Diane Setterfield, 2018)
Art / Books / Discernment
Seeing into other worlds -- in a novel Friends recommended Once Upon a River to us over dinner, saying it was one of their…
The Pioneers (David McCullough, 2019)
A problem in story telling David McCullough knows how to tell a good story, and as a historian has published a series of well…
Science & The Good (James Hunter & Paul Nedelisky, 2018)
A scientific morality To be plausible a worldview needs to be able to account for morality. It’s not a surprise then, that in the…
Stony the Road (Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 2019)
The fight against emancipation On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, forever abolishing slavery in the United States. It would…
Excerpt: Impossible People (2016) Os Guinness
The significance of choice (an excerpt from Impossible People by Os Guinness) Choice—unbounded autonomous, subjective sovereign individual choice—is the playboy king of consumerland, and…
Margie’s 2019 Christmas Gift List
If you are looking for a special book for that special person who has everything? Why not check out this list of some favorite…
A History of the World in 6 Glasses (Tom Standage; 2005)
Drinking over time This book is good summer reading—a story full of odd facts, fascinating historical connections and humorous anecdotes that I didn’t really…
Race, Economics and Apologetics: Is There a Connection? (Luke Bobo; 2019)
Books / Community / Pluralistic World / Scripture
Embodying the gospel Margie and I heard Luke Bobo—no stranger to the pages of Critique—speak on this topic and hoped to publish his talk.…