Form and abstraction, beautifully In 2009, the Dillon Gallery on West 25th Street in New York City held a show featuring the work of…
Notes from the House of the Dead (Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1861)
A place of cold suffering On July 7, 1945, when Stalin shipped Alexander Solzhenitsyn off to a remote and brutal prison camp in Siberia…
Francis Schaeffer: A Mind and Heart for God (Bruce Little, 2010), Schaeffer on the Christian Life: Countercultural Spirituality (William Edgar, 2013)
Two on Francis Schaeffer: A mentor making sense of things In the summer of 1981 friends helped us pack our belongings into a rented…
The Exact Place: A Memoir (Margie Haack, 2012)
Seeing a Stork: Margie Haack’s Childhood in Northern Minnesota The memoirist Isak Dinesen recounts a story she heard from a child when she lived…
Resilient Ministry (Burns, Chapman and Guthrie, 2013)
The Church Must Not Consume Its Own One of the most striking metaphors in all of Holy Scripture describes the sworn enemy of our…
Was America Founded as a Christian Nation? (John Fea, 2011)
We the people It is difficult to get Americans to agree on how Christian America was at its founding. It’s not just that Christians…
I Want to Show You More: Stories (Jamie Quatro, 2013)
Living faithfully as embodied creatures In her debut book of fiction, a collection of short stories, Jamie Quatro has bequeathed a deliciously subversive gift…
Religion for Atheists: A Non-believers Guide to the Uses of Religion (Alain de Botton, 2012)
Trying to see… more clearly One way we express our raison d'être in Ransom is this: we desire to help Christians deepen their discipleship…
The Lifespan of a Fact (John D’Agata and Jim Fingal, 2012)
Truth, Reality and Facts Two quotations from Lao-tzu adorn the first two pages of The Lifespan of a Fact. On the first page the…
Unapologetic: Why Despite Everything, Christianity Can Still Make Surprising Emotional Sense (Francis Spufford, 2013)
Unapologetic Feelings We come to the books we read by various roads. In the case of Unapologetic: Why Despite Everything, Christianity Can Still Make…