By: Timothy Keller (New York: Riverhead Books, 2008) Summary: Tim Keller, Senior Pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan, wrote this book after discovering an unexpected reality in New York City. He saw that while many of the cultural elites running the...
By: Michelle Alexander (New York: The New Press, 2010) Summary: “More African American adults are under correctional control today…than were enslaved in 1850.” Law professor Michelle Alexander argues that the War on Drugs came as a result of white Americans wanting a...
By: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, trans. Thomas P. Whitney & Harry Willets (New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2007) Summary: “In this book there are no fictitious persons, nor fictitious events,” says Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, author of The Gulag Archipelago, a...
By: Andrew Solomon (New York: Scribner, 2012) Summary: Tolstoy famously began Anna Karenina by saying, “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Modeled after this, Andrew Solomon states in his tome Far from the Tree, “the unhappy...
By: Jerram Barrs (Wheaton: Crossway, 2013) Summary: The Bible contains all of the content for which many evangelicals lambast much of today’s art: rape, murder, incest, cursing, treason, war, adultery, stealing, etc. Jerram Barrs argues that the mere presence of what...
By: Trevor Laurence & Derek E. Radney (Amazon Digital Services, Inc., 2013). Summary: Discipleship is a work from two pastors in North Carolina writing about how the gospel applies to all people in all areas of life. They write, “We hope to bring this gospel to...
By: John Sommerville (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006) Summary: Are American universities equipped to answer life’s big questions? Not in their present state, historian C. John Sommerville argues. Tracing a line from the Middle Ages, when theology was “queen of...
By: James K.A. Smith (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2009) Summary: What letter is to the left of the “F” on a keyboard? It’s likely you have to pause to think or put your fingers on an imaginary keyboard—but you know it. And you can easily type it. Your hands know...
By: Truman Capote (New York: Random House, 1966). Summary: “Clutter, his wife, and their two teen-age children were found murdered in their farm near Garden City early last Sunday morning. Each had been bound, gagged, and shot through the head with a .12-gauge...
By: Augustine of Hippo, trans. R.W. Dyson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998) Summary: “Most glorious is the City of God,” begins Augustine’s greatest work, The City of God, written from 413-426 AD. A different city, however—Rome—had recently been sacked by...
