Apostles of Reason By: Molly Worthen (Oxford University Press, 2016) There are at least three reasons why evangelicals should read Molly Worthen’s Apostles of Reason. First, Worthen has given us a meticulously researched history of a number of strands of the...
Gilead By: Marilynne Robinson (New York: Picador, 2006) Some may triply wonder why I would use this space to review first, a novel rather than a non-fiction book, secondly, a novel by liberal Presbyterian Marilynne Robinson, and thirdly a novel published ten years...
Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life By: William Deresiewicz (Free Press, 2015) Those who try to follow closely the publications relating to Higher Education in America must live in a constant state of exhaustion....
God’s Wider Presence: Reconsidering General Revelation By: Robert K. Johnston (Baker Academic, 2014) Everyone has asked the question forming the title to this review, but they usually do so out of an existential need or in the midst of a crisis of faith. Robert...
The Complete Poems By: Christina Rossetti (Penguin Classics, 2001) On Easter Sunday morning this year, I was so inspired by the joy of the day that I needed to sing. Singing hymns sprang first to mind, but I knew that I would soon be singing in my church, and I...
By: Richard J. Mouw (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2002) Most titles I review in these “Of Note”s are of my own making. I create them with a number of different purposes, but mostly to signal to the reader something of what I think the author of the book or article,...
The Cultivated Life: From Ceaseless Striving to Receiving Joy By: Susan S. Phillip True Paradox: How Christianity Makes Sense of Our Complex World By: David Skeel In the magisterial prologue to his Gospel, John the Apostle writes of Jesus: “The Word became flesh and...
Directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite (CNN Films, 2013) PG-13. Summary: On February 24, 2010 at SeaWorld in Orlando, Florida, senior trainer Dawn Brancheau was killed by an orca named Tilikum. Over Tillikum’s time with SeaWorld, he has been responsible for two other...
Directed by Michel Hazanavicius (Warner Bros., 2011) Starring: Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman, and James Cromwell; PG-13. Summary: The Artist is a black and white silent film about black and white silent films. It is a love story between two people but...
By: Cormac McCarthy (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992) Summary: Cormac McCarthy is one of America’s most respected and honored novelists, even though until the publication of All the Pretty Horses none of his novels had sold over 5,000 copies. All the Pretty Horses won...
