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A Look at “The Shack”

An Encore Presentation From 4/11/08 ...

May 1, 2009

A Writer’s Life, Not Pretty

John Cheever never gained the recognition he so desperately craved, even though he won many awards, including the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.  Born in 1912, Cheever got himself thrown out of prep school and soon set his sights on being a writer. ...

April 29, 2009

The Evolution of Catholicism

One cannot understand the theology of the Reformers without first understanding the theology of the Catholic Church in the sixteenth century.  Similarly, an understanding of contemporary Catholicism is necessary for any comprehensive understanding of ...

April 27, 2009

Not Even Close? — Is America Becoming a Post-Christian Culture?

Newsweek magazine's cover story, "The Decline and Fall of Christian America" [April 13, 2009] continues to evoke controversy and conversation, and much of it is illuminating.  Now, Stephen Prothero of Boston University enters the fray with an incisiv ...

April 27, 2009

The Modern Age vs. The Bible?

The very essence of the age we call modern represents a challenge to authority.  Ultimately, the greatest authority an anti-authoritarian age must topple is the authority of the Bible as the Word of God.  In Ancient Word, Changing Worlds: The Doctrin ...

April 20, 2009

John Calvin at 500: A Good Resource

The 500th anniversary of the birth of John Calvin has prompted numerous conferences, special observances, and books -- and rightly so.  For some, the anniversary offers a first opportunity for an introduction to the great Genevan Reformer and his leg ...

April 16, 2009

The Kingdom of Our God and of His Christ

2009 marks the fifth anniversary of the publication of The Kingdom of Christ: The New Evangelical Perspective [Crossway] by Russell D. Moore.  Okay, so a fifth anniversary is not such a big deal, but I was grasping for an excuse to put this book wher ...

April 13, 2009

Hunting Eichmann — The Moral Burden of History

The arrest and trial of Adolf Eichmann took place almost a half-century ago now, and though his name lives in infamy, the story of his capture and its significance is largely lost to the current generation.  Now arrives Hunting Eichmann by Neal Basco ...

April 6, 2009

Health Alert — Read to Save Your Life

We are constantly bombarded with health messages these days, with many offering confusing, complicated, or contradictory advice.  There are so many messages with so many misunderstandings that, in the end, they have become like car alarms going off i ...

April 3, 2009

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