By: Wesley Hill (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2010) Summary: “By the time I started high school, two things had become clear to me. One was that I was a Christian…. The second thing was that I was gay.” And so begins Wesley Hill’s memoir that chronicles his journey as a...
By: Kevin Roose (New York: Grand Central, 2009). Summary: “Even in its weather patterns, Lynchburg, Virginia is a fundamentalist city. Unlike the fickle New England winters I came from, where snow, sun, fog, and rain operate on a twenty-minute loop, Lynchburg in...
By: Laura Hillenbrand (New York: Random House, 2010). Summary: Louie Zamperini was a lieutenant in a WWII Army Air Forces bomber, which once landed with 594 bullet holes. He was also an Olympic runner, a childhood vandal, and a man who survived 47 days in the Pacific...
By: Wesley Hill (Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2015) Summary: “Friendship is entirely voluntary, uncoerced, and unencumbered by any sense of duty or debt.” Should it be this way? That is the central question of this book. Using not only Scripture and tradition but also...
By: Nancy Pearcey (Nashville: B&H Publishing Group, 2010) Summary: The primary question concerning Saving Leonardo is whether “secularism [is] a positive force in the modern world.” Nancy Pearcey, evangelical author and professor, answers with an emphatic no and...
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...
