This year my Summer Reading List is definitely testing the boundaries of summer. But I claim as justification the fact that the days are still warm an...
Cute little preschool boy, reading a book on the stairs, lantern next to him, lighting the book with flashlight.
The days of summer may seem wonderfully long, but the season itself is frustratingly brief. Shakespeare put it this way: "And summer's lease hath all ...
Serious readers tend to read by season. A worthy book is ripe for the reading in any season, but winter seems to privilege the weightier volumes over ...
E. Y. Mullins towers over the Baptist landscape of the twentieth century. He uniquely represents the effort of Baptists (and Southern Baptists in part...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Here is a simple rule to keep in mind: When D. A. Carson writes a book, buy it. This is certainly the case with Carson's recent book, Christ & Culture Revisited [Eerdmans]. Readers will immediately recognize the reference to the classic 1951 w ...
John Lukacs consistently writes some of the most interesting and informative work on the history of the twentieth century. I recently turned to one of Lukacs' older and larger works and I was not disappointed. In The Last European War, Lukacs turns ...
"Real heroes are in short supply in our day," says Daniel L. Akin. In a world fascinated with celebrities and disenchanted with greatness, true heroism is hard to define, much less to find. But Dr. Akin is certain that true heroes do appear in this ...
Transcendentalism constitutes one of the most significant moments and movements in the making of the American mind. As a matter of fact, we cannot understand the contours of American thought without reference to this formative period and intellectua ...
Julia Duin, religion editor for The Washington Times, has written a book intended to shake up the church and to sound an alarm -- people are leaving churches. In Quitting Church: Why the Faithful are Fleeing and What to Do about It, Duin argues that ...