Raw Life It was impossible to predict that the tall rugged actor who played Rowdy Yates in all 217 episodes of the TV western,…
Snow (Orhan Pamuk, 2002)
Trying to Find Our Way We have friends who work for the U.S. State Department, and over the years they’ve accepted posts in countries…
Get Low (Aaron Schneider, 2009)
A Story that Needs to be Told I love good stories. Sitting in a rocking chair on my grandmother’s front porch on a hot…
Lost Sparrow (Chris Billing, 2009)
Chris Billing is an unassuming man, a journalist and documentarian who cares enough for the truth that he is willing to pursue it even…
Listening to Critics: When Musicians Raise Questions About Faith (II)
It was one of those rare moments in life. It’s only happened twice to me, that I remember exactly where I was and what…
The Drama of Doctrine: A Canonical Linguistic Approach to Christian Theology (Kevin J. Vanhoozer, 2005)
Common sense and cannon sense I suspect everyone knows what common sense is, though not everyone exhibits it. It’s that almost inexplicable practical wisdom…
Inception (Christopher Nolan, 2010)
Reality Revisited Pardon him, Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.…
None Other Lamb, None Other Name: In a Broken World, a Quiet Confidence
I grew up around hymns and early learned to dislike them. It was the only music allowed in our fundamentalist home. I didn’t have…
The Radical Disciple (John Stott, 2010)
Final words of wisdom Over the years, John Stott’s writings have nourished my soul. His faithful exposition of Scripture, always beguilingly simple, never fails…
Souls in Transition (Christian Smith, 2009)
Christian Smith has been following a nation-wide sample of teenagers, using surveys and extensive interviews to track their religious beliefs and values. In 2005…