In my library I have a few books I loan to non-Christians who have reached the point in their spiritual pilgrimage that they are…
Denis Haack
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Where Shall My Wond’ring Soul Begin?: The Landscape of Evangelical Piety and Thought (Noll/Thiemann, 2000)
One of the gifts that Christian scholars can give to the believing community comes from their ability to see the whole picture. Or, to…
Steering Through Chaos: Vice and Virtue in an Age of Moral Confusion (Os Guinness, 2000)
Since 1991 Os Guinness has led The Trinity Forum, a nonprofit organization designed to contribute to the transformation and renewal of society through the…
What I Think I Did: A Season of Survival in Two Acts (Larry Woiwode, 2000)
The world is full of books—as Solomon noted well before the advent of printing presses and amazon.com—and some of those books are books of…
Welfare in America: Christian Perspectives on a Policy in Crisis (Carlson-Thies/Skillen, 1996)
Between 1992 and 1995, the Center for Public Justice, a Christian civic-education and public-policy think tank undertook an extended project named the Welfare Responsibility…
Visual Faith: Art, Theology, & Worship in Dialogue (William A. Dyrness, 2001)
People with renewed minds are not to approach life as if sensually numbed. ~Steve Turner Christians must discover a renewed vision for the arts,…
A Visit to Vanity Fair: Moral Essays on the Present Age (Alan Jacobs , 2001)
As periodicals pass over my desk I am always on the lookout for articles from the pen of Alan Jacobs. Professor of English at…
Virtual Faith: The Irreverent Spiritual Quest of Generation X (Tom Beaudoin, 1998)
"This is a book about impropriety and irreverence, beginning with my fundamental claim that Generation X is —despite and even because of appearances—strikingly religious,”…
The Collects of Thomas Cranmer (Barbee/Zahl, 1999); The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions (Bennett, 1975); Prayers Written at Vailima (Robert Louis Stevenson, )
I was raised in a branch of evangelical Christianity that viewed written prayers with great suspicion. Smacked of Rome, for one thing. Why would…
Understanding the Bible (John Stott, 1972, 1984, 2001)
The basic steps of Bible study are Survey (getting an overview of the whole), Observation (seeing what the text says), Analysis (meditating on what…