Category Archives: Book Reviews

Neighbors and Wise Men: A Review

Posted on October 6, 2012 by

Tony Kriz writes that he was raised in a two-team world. “My two-team world was one of the spiritual haves and have-nots. The ‘haves’ were Christians. The ‘have-nots’ were everybody else” (13). Kriz was working as a missionary in predominantly … Continue reading →

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Unbroken: A Review

Posted on September 29, 2012 by

Louis Zamperini is an incredible man with an incredible story: one of the world’s best mile runners in the 1930s, he competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympics while still a teenager. When World War II began, he went to the … Continue reading →

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The Lost World of Genesis One: A Review

Posted on September 23, 2012 by

The relationship between scientific accounts of origins and the account found in Genesis is a controversial issue, and has been at least since the Scopes Monkey Trial. Every now and then it spills into the news here in the United … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Imagine

Posted on September 8, 2012 by

There has been some controversy about this book. It came out in late July that Lehrer made up quotes from Bob Dylan and Raymond Teller in it (and had to leave his job at the New Yorker; see here and … Continue reading →

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Book Review: A Failure of Nerve

Posted on September 3, 2012 by

Edwin Friedman was a rabbi and family therapist whose writings on leadership, including the book Generation to Generation (written for congregational leaders), were shaped by family systems theory. A Failure of Nerve was intended to be his magnum opus on … Continue reading →

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The Slavery of “Freedom”

Posted on August 25, 2012 by

We Americans love to talk about freedom. We call ourselves “the land of the free”; our Declaration of Independence talks about liberty as an “inalienable right”; there are still few things that can get an American riled up like the … Continue reading →

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Should Christians Be Environmentalists? Absolutely.

Posted on August 20, 2012 by

For a lot of people, the phrase “Christian environmentalist” sounds like an oxymoron. At least since Lynn White’s famous 1967 essay, “The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis,” many people who care about the environment see Christianity as part of … Continue reading →

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Coming Apart: A Review

Posted on July 3, 2012 by

Charles Murray is a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and the author of books like Losing Ground, What It Means to Be a Libertarian, and The Bell Curve. In this book, he looks at the growing class division in … Continue reading →

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The Autobiography of G.K. Chesterton

Posted on June 26, 2012 by

I have been a big fan of G.K. Chesterton since college. At the time, I was listening to a lot of Rich Mullins’ music, and I read somewhere that Chesterton’s Orthodoxy was Mullins’ favorite book. I picked it up and … Continue reading →

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The Idolatry of Ideology

Posted on June 16, 2012 by

It was the spring of 2009, and I was visiting my friends Neal and Danielle in Massachusetts. They both had to work one day, so I decided to go to Cambridge on my own and take a look around Harvard. … Continue reading →

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