Once upon a time, the creators of the beloved fantasy worlds of Narnia and Middle Earth went together to see Walt Disney’s Snow White when it was in theaters – and they hated it.More
Category Archives: Books
Book Review: ‘The Other Half of Church’ by Michel Hendricks and E. James Wilder
A certain cost-benefit seems not to have been done carefully enough, in my view, where combining the latest in brain science with Christian theology is concerned.More
Book Review: ‘The Everlasting Man’ by G.K. Chesterton
G.K. Chesterton is long gone except in memory and his prolific writings, so we do well to consider. Are we still producing such thinkers in our day? And what we do with them when we get them?More
Book Review: ‘A Free People’s Suicide’ by Os Guinness
Freedom, to be sustainable, requires not just Liberty in the abstract. What Os Guinness calls “the golden triangle of freedom” includes also Virtue as well as “Faith in something.”More
Why Conservative Homeschooled Kids Should Read Non-Christian Literature
Should homeschooling parents who keep their kids home from the public schools think nothing of letting their kids read great works of literature written by godless folk?More
Book Review: ‘Finding the Right Hills to Die On – The Case for Theological Triage’ by Gavin Ortlund
A recurring theme of Gavin Ortlund’s ‘Finding the Right Hills to Die On’ is the effect of doctrinal concerns. Not principally theological, but practical questions are asked here.More
Book Review: ‘Simply Trinity – The Unmanipulated Father, Son, and Spirit’ by Matthew Barrett
Between ‘None Greater’ and ‘Simply Trinity,’ Matthew Barrett has made me aware of many things which were entirely unknown to me before, but which now sorely need further study.More
Book Review: ‘None Greater – The Undomesticated Attributes of God’ by Matthew Barrett
‘None Greater: The Undomesticated Attributes of God’ by Matthew Barrett is an excellent survey of historically orthodox doctrine regarding the attributes of God. More
Christian Metal, and ‘The Whole Christ’ by Sinclair Ferguson
‘The Marrow Controversy’ came about in relation to the pseudonymously published fictional dialogues by a certain E.F. Such is the subject of Sinclair Ferguson’s ‘The Whole Christ.’More
Book Review: ‘All That Is In God’ by James A. Dolezal
Even small changes in how we understand, or more to the point misunderstand, the fundamental nature of God translate into major practical differences to our assurance of salvation.More