With 2012 being a presidential election year, politics is constantly in the news. One perennial question is what role evangelical Christians will play. But who are evangelicals, and how did they come to occupy the role they do in American politics? Kenneth J. Collins presents his readers with a historical survey that answers that question, … Continue reading Power, Politics, and the Fragmentation of Evangelicalism: A Review
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The Idolatry of Ideology
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. While I was there, I felt the irresistible pull of a used bookstore and found Political … Continue reading The Idolatry of Ideology
Trading the Culture War for the Kingdom: A Review of A Faith of Our Own
Jonathan Merritt grew up a child of the Religious Right. His father is a former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, and he attended Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. Growing up, he says, he assumed that being faithful to Jesus meant defeating liberals. As he grew into young adulthood, however, he realized that there were Christians … Continue reading Trading the Culture War for the Kingdom: A Review of A Faith of Our Own
Book Review: Decision Points
Instead of proceeding chronologically, George W. Bush structures this memoir of his presidency around the various "decision points" from his time as president and before: his decision to quit drinking, to run for governor and then president, to put the United States on war footing after 9/11, to invade Iraq, how to deal with the … Continue reading Book Review: Decision Points
Book Review: Uncle Sam’s Plantation by Star Parker
Star Parker argues in this book that poverty is too complicated to be fixed by government programs. Parker herself was once poor and took advantage of welfare programs, but she climbed out of poverty through hard work and determination. The two great heroes of this book are freedom and personal responsibility, and the two great … Continue reading Book Review: Uncle Sam’s Plantation by Star Parker
Review of The Battle, With Reference to WORLD Magazine’s Endorsement of It
I am not a regular reader of WORLD magazine, but when I picked up a copy of it a few weeks ago and saw that it was their yearly “books issue,” I was curious to see what they had named as their Book of the Year. When I read that they had named as their … Continue reading Review of The Battle, With Reference to WORLD Magazine’s Endorsement of It
Book Review: William F. Buckley (Christian Encounters Series)
This is the second book that I have read in the Christian Encounters series from Thomas Nelson, and I must admit that the idea behind the series is a good one: short biographies of well-known people, with an emphasis on their Christian faith. The first book in this series that I read was Peter Leithart’s … Continue reading Book Review: William F. Buckley (Christian Encounters Series)
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