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Easter is the apex of the Christian calendar. Everything in the Christian life rises and falls on the empty tomb. There is typically a flurry of activity at this time of year involving everything from church musicals...
Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein, A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenge of Modern Life (aff). New York: Portfolio/Penguin, 2021. 301 pages. This book is...
James K. A. Smith, You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit (aff.) (Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2016). 210 pages. James Smith is a professor of philosophy...
John Milton, Paradise Lost (aff). Edited and notes by John Leonard. (New York: Penguin Books, 2000). 453 pages. Paradise Lost is a book I have long intended to read....
Paul David Tripp, Dangerous Calling: Confronting the Unique Challenge of Pastoral Ministry (aff). (Wheaton, Illinois: Crossway, 2012). 227 pages. This book is interesting on several levels. It is intriguing...
The phenomenon occurring at Asbury and spreading to other school campuses has generated a cacophony of animated discussion. I’m not sure church people have engaged in such vehement debate since youth camps introduced co-ed swimming!
As I write this, meetings are still underway at Asbury University. The result, it seems, is that the Christian community is in turmoil. Is this of God? Is it man-made? Should we support or condemn it? Not...
Brain W. Jones, The Emperor Domitian aff. (New York: Routledge, 1992). 292 pages As a historian, I have collected biographies on Roman Emperors. Domitian has been of particular interest...
When I was in high school, the English curriculum had taken a decidedly negative turn. It was assumed, apparently, that it was the humanities’ job to make inexperienced teenagers aware of the harsh brutality of human existence....
Paul Johnson, Heroes: From Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to Churchill and De Gaulle (aff). (Ney York: Harper Perennial, 2007). 299 pages. Paul Johnson is the kind of...