The Lifespan of a Fact By: John D’Agata and Jim Fingal (W.W. Norton & Company, 2012) Truth is an arrow and the gate is narrow that it passes through. -“When He Returns” on Slow Train Coming (Bob Dylan, 1979) Two quotations from Lao-tzu adorn the first two pages...
Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective Story By: Jim Holt (W.W. Norton & Company, 2012) Jim Holt, who writes about science and philosophy for such magazines and newspapers as Slate, The New Yorker, and The New York Times, has written this volume, aimed...
Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work By: Timothy Keller & Katherine Leary Alsdorf (Penguin Group, 2012) This album is a humble offering to Him. An attempt to say “THANK YOU GOD” through our work, even as we do in our hearts and with our tongues....
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief By: Lawrence Wright (Vintage, 2013) Lawrence Wright is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, who writes for The New Yorker and is a fellow at the Center for Law and Security at New York University School of...
Fabricating Jesus: How Modern Scholars Distort the Gospels By: Craig Evans (IVP Books, 2008) Last summer, Reza Aslan, associate professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside, published a book entitled Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of...
Beauty for Truth’s Sake: On the Re-enchantment of Education By: Stratford Caldecott (Brazos Press, 2017) Ken Myers, in one of his interviews with Stratford Caldecott on The Mars Hill Audio Journal, remarked: “Thinking deeply about education leads quite naturally to...
The Rise of Liberal Religion: Book Culture and American Spirituality in the 20th Century By: Matthew Hedstrom (Oxford University Press, 2015) “Rommel… you magnificent *******: I read your book!” -Patton (1970) Though the quotation above from the movie Patton may be...
The Goldfinch By: Donna Tartt (Little, Brown and Company, 2016) It is hard to overemphasize how good a novel The Goldfinch is on purely formal grounds. Yes, it is long, and, yes, many of the descriptions are very involved, but these are subjective interests, not...
Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry By: Hans Boersma (Eerdmans, 2011) Hans Boersma, the J. I. Packer professor of systematic theology at Regent College, has written a book that is fast becoming a sine qua non for thoughtful evangelicals. His...
The Twilight of the American Enlightenment: The 1950s and the Crisis of Liberal Belief By: George Marsden (Basic Books, 2014) George Marsden, Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame, and Bancroft-winning author of Jonathan Edwards: A Life, is an...
