Opening the door and walking out into the warm night, I step out onto the suburban streets of my neighborhood, their grainy texture partially…
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…
Searching for Sugar Man (Malik Bendjelloul, 2012)
Portrait of an Artist in Exile If you plan to see Searching for Sugar Man, please, stop reading this and watch the film first.…
Charlie Peacock, No Man’s Land (2012)
Grit, Gumption & Faith My office window looks out over the front yard of Toad Hall. I can see the thistle feeder where the…