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...
By: A.O. Scott (New York: Penguin Press, 2016) A.O. Scott, the chief film critic for The New York Times, had a problem. He had written a negative review of the famous Avengers movie of several years ago, a movie which proceeded to make $1.5B at the box office...
By: Tom Holland (New York: Basic Books, 2019) Books abound on the making of the Western world and its mindset. Now Tom Holland, who has written two well-respected popular histories of events in classical times: Persian Fire, about the Greco-Persian wars of the fifth...
By: N.T. Wright (New York: Harper Collins, 2018) Biography writing is a fascinating study in itself. Sometimes biographies are simply histories of the times in which a person lived. So little is known about the person or the writer is just not interested in the...
