A gentle, accessible scholar My first memory of F. F. Bruce (1910-1990) was his book, The New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable? It was…
Over the Earth I Come (Duane Schultz, 1992)
Stolen Land After 33 years living in the same house, we moved to a town named Savage. We live on stolen land. From Tierra…
Visions of Vocation (Steve Garber, 2014)
Does work have meaning in a broken world? Day by day, patiently and in unhurried conversations, group discussions and lectures in all sorts of…
Abraham Kuyper: Modern Calvinist, Christian Democrat (James D. Bratt, 2013)
A Dutchman worth knowing The first I ever heard of Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920), at least far as I can remember, was in something he…
Echoes of a Voice: We are Not Alone (James Sire, 2014)
Signals of immanence & transcendence “Small disconnected facts,” novelist Walker Percy wrote in The Thanatos Syndrome, “if you take note of them, have a…
Cormac McCarthy & The Ironwork Elm: Dark Novels of an Enigmatic Writer Show Signs of Embedded Grace
The critics were mystified. Who was this writer from the hills of Tennessee who could write such arresting landscapes? A warm wind on the…
Wayfaring: Essays Pleasant and Unpleasant (Alan Jacobs, 2010)
Reflections Worth Reflection When the name Alan Jacobs appears in some publication I always anticipate reading the essay he has written with a quiet…
On Ugliness (Umberto Eco, 2007)
The Truth of Ugliness Last night before sleep I looked at some photos—pictures of beauty and ugliness—that had been gathered on a web news…
Do We Worship the Same God? (Miroslav Volf, 2012)
Is my God your God? Discerning Christians know that speaking the gospel creatively and attractively into our pluralistic 21st century world requires that we…
Under Fire (Fred Burton & Samuel Katz, 2013);
The Good Soldiers (David Finkel, 2009)
The View on the Ground The world remains a troubled, and troubling place. Wars have proliferated into seemingly never ending skirmishes in numerous places…