Seeing What’s Really Around Us When I was small it was not uncommon for some adult to mention that some fool or other needed…
Living the Secular Life: New Answers to Old Questions (Phil Zuckerman, 2014)
How to be secular The purpose that motivated Phil Zuckerman to write Living the Secular Life is elegant in its simplicity. A convinced secularist…
How (Not) to be Secular (James K.A. Smith, 2014)
Insight into our secular world In 2007 McGill University philosopher Charles Taylor published A Secular Age, the culmination of a lifetime of careful study…
Fool’s Talk (Os Guinness, 2015)
Persuasive faith in a dismissive world Over the decades, Os Guinness has written books that have named exactly what’s needed to be named for…
The Goldfinch (Donna Tartt, 2013)
Beauty alters the grain of reality Imagine growing up having lost your mother when you are thirteen in an explosion at an art museum…
Subjects With Objects (Jonathan Richter and DKM, 2013)
People watching with insight Jonathan Richter tells us that each of his paintings in Subjects With Objects began with a good beer. With all…
The Pilgrim’s Regress (C.S. Lewis, 1933)
An Annotated Regress It is not news to remark that C. S. Lewis’s books remain remarkably relevant as the years and decades pass. Schooled…
Renaissance: The Power of the Gospel However Dark the Times (Os Guinness, 2014)
Believing the Gospel We Claim to Believe I think it is safe to say that nobody in the church in the West thinks we…
Under Fire: The Untold Story of the Attack in Benghazi (Fred Burton and Samuel M. Katz, 2013)
The View on the Ground The world remains a troubled, and troubling place. Wars have proliferated into seemingly never ending skirmishes in numerous places…
Broken Hallelujahs: Why Popular Music Matters to Those Seeking God (Christian Scharen, 2011)
Popular music in theological perspective Christians who wish to be discerning in engaging our world will need to pay attention to popular music. Some…