To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World By: James Davison Hunter (Oxford University Press, 2010) James Hunter, professor of sociology at the University of Virginia and author of some of the most influential...
Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses By: Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011) The authors, sociologists Richard Arum of New York University and Josipa Roksa of the University of Virginia, have given us a book...
Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind By: Mark A. Noll (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2011) Christians and non-Christians alike far too often underplay the importance of reason for the Christian life. Christians speak of faith in ways that...
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern By: Stephen Greenblatt (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2011) “Swerve” may seem to be a strange word to use as the titular noun of a book with as sweeping a prospect as to try to explain how the modern world grew out of the...
Figures in the Carpet: Finding the Human Person in the American Past By: Wilfred M. McClay (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2007) Figures in the Carpet is a collection of essays by scholars from a variety of disciplines, brought together by the Pew...
Science vs. Religion: What Scientists Really Think By: Elaine Howard Ecklund (Oxford University Press, 2010) Elaine Howard Ecklund, a sociologist teaching at Rice University, has done an exhaustive study of the faith of scientists in millennial America (with a...
The Hunger Games By: Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press, 2008) In her trilogy The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins, an established writer for children’s television and successful novelist of teen fiction, has portrayed what everyone seems to want to describe as a...
Body Broken: Can Republicans and Democrats Sit in the Same Pew? By: Charles D. Drew (New Growth Press, 2012) With the political season upon us once again, Christians continue to be in need of guidance as we deliberate upon our vote. This book will not provide the...
Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics By: Ross Douthat (Free Press, 2013) Richard Dawkins and his fellow “new atheists” believe that the intelligentsia of the West are finally getting the picture and losing interest—and with it belief—in God and His...
The Outsourced Self: Intimate Life in Market Times By: Arlie Russell Hochschild (Metropolitan Books, 2012) Arlie Hochschild, a sociologist at the University of California at Berkeley, has given us another book on her well-known themes of the inner life, the public...
