Biblical women reconsidered No commentary contains the final word on the text of Scripture. Rather, our apprehension of the biblical text unfolds in depth…
The Color of Compromise: The Truth About the American Church’s Complicity with Racism (Jemar Tisby; 2019)
Black Lives Matter Some of our stories are so grievous, so unpleasant, so full of duplicity and heartlessness that my impulse is to keep…
Redeeming Transcendence in the Arts: Bearing Witness to the Triune God (Jeremy Begbie, 2018)
Art and transcendence The West today is secularized, meaning that increasingly it is believed that human purpose and flourishing can be achieved without reference…
Leadership in Turbulent Times (Doris Kearns Goodwin, 2018)
Studies in leadership Doris Kearns Goodwin is the best sort of historian: a careful scholar who teaches by telling compelling stories. In Leadership in…
In Praise of Wasting Time (Alan Lightman, 2018)
The pace of kingdom living Alan Lightman, novelist and physicist at MIT, thinks we need to slow down and reflect on how our lives…
Christian Hospitality and Muslim Immigration in an Age of Fear (Matthew Kaemingk, 2018)
Books / Community / Hospitality / Pluralistic World
Welcoming Muslims Everyone knows that immigration is a divisive topic today. In America, Europe and beyond massive numbers of people are on the move…
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Stephen Hawking, 2018)
Books / Discernment / Pluralistic World
The Reason for No God My first thought upon picking up Stephen Hawking’s 2018 book, Brief Answers to the Big Questions is that it is…
Joy: Poet, Seeker, and the Woman Who Captivated C. S. Lewis (Abigail Santamaria, 2015)
A very determined person I’ve been trying to think which of C. S. Lewis’s books I read first, but can’t remember. Unlike many who…
It Was Good: Performing Arts to the Glory of God (Ned Bustard, 2018)
Performing to God’s Glory I do not mean to be peremptory or presumptuous, but there is a series of three books you really should…
Apologetics and the Christian Imagination (Holly Ordway, 2017)
Apologetics both reasonable and imaginative Imagination and reason turn out to be intimately related. If you doubt that consider this common experience: You are…