Posts with the category “books”

The recent movement of Hitler-love is full of moral stunts and scoops, intellectual bargaining, and self-promotion. It is a world as spiritually dead as the world of the PWC, also rejecting metaphysic...  Read More

Joe Rigney’s recasting of Edwin Friedman’s A Failure of Nerve is insightful, relevant, practical, well-organized, and short. I highly recommend it for men, women, and teens. It also serves well for gr...  Read More

Brian’s Recommendations:1)    Charles Williams, Forgiveness (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1942)Charles Williams—poet, novelist, lay theologian, and one of the lesser-known...  Read More

Daniel’s RecommendationPatrick Kavanaugh, The Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 1992).We live in a culture where the forces of expressionism, postmodernism, nihilis...  Read More

Why give you a list of books? Because we think reading is important, and we think Christians ought to be reading books. Social media allows for discourse as sophisticated as a hammer trying to play a ...  Read More

Megan Basham has written a deeply sourced book about how the political left has been pouring money and influence into evangelicalism for decades. There are initiatives, political action groups, confer...  Read More

IntroductionOne of the leading thinkers on the Intellectual Dark Web (IDW) is the pseudonymous Bronze Age Pervert (BAP), author of the baleful book Bronze Age Mindset, published in 2018. BAP represent...  Read More

What follows are seven quotations made up of truthful statements about reading, each followed by a brief commentary about the statement. May you be established, renewed, and encouraged to read good bo...  Read More

Daron’s Recommendations1.    Michael Foster and Dominic Bnonn Tennant, It’s Good to be a Man: A Handbook for Godly Masculinity (Canon Press, 2022)The snare of dabbling almost prevented me from reading...  Read More

Pastor Brian’s Books1.    William Willimon, Remember Who You Are: Baptism and the Christian Life (Upper Room, 1998) & Sunday Dinner: The Lord’s Supper and the Christian Life (Upper Room, 1983).  When ...  Read More

Here it is, a list of books; the best books we’ve read in 2024, which are different from the best books published in 2024. Why give you a list of books? Because we think reading is important and we th...  Read More

IntroductionHarriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin has many villainous characters, chief among them Simon Legree. Another devilish character is Augustine St. Clare’s wife, Marie, who is the e...  Read More

Matt’s RecommendationsThe Life of the Mind: On the Joys and Travails of Thinking, by Fr. James Schall.Most years I begin with a list of books I want to read over the year, and this was no exception. A...  Read More

Here it is, a list of books; the best books we’ve read in 2023, which are different from the best books published in 2023. Why give you a list of books? Because we think reading is important and we th...  Read More

IntroductionThe destruction of men is the most significant event of the last fifty years and worth the most significant attention of the church. That’s why I was delighted to finally read the helpful ...  Read More

IntroductionThe inner ring is the sort of club where it is not easy to tell who is inside and who is outside. There is no formal admission procedure and no protocol for expulsion. There is usually a c...  Read More

IntroductionSome faithful Christians refuse to read fiction. The reason cited is the same: If there is time to read, they’d rather read something true. Better to plow up a real field than a pretend on...  Read More

Here it is, a list of books; the best books we’ve read in 2022, which are different from the best books published in 2022. Why give you a list of books? Because we think reading is important and we th...  Read More

Here it is, a list of books; the best books we’ve read in 2021, which are different from the best books published in 2021. Why give you a list of books? Because we think reading is important and we th...  Read More