book reviews

Simonetta Carr makes her return to the bunker. She’s written a number of Christian books (including some wonderful children’s biographies) and she’s also a contributor of Place for Truth , another Alliance website. This time around, Simonetta joins the team to talk about a very...

Lois Lowry tells a story about how a utopian state required that all of the community's memories going back through the generations be committed to a single person, a receiver. The elders engineered a society where no one but the receiver had to feel or remember. Life was safe and comfortable. The...

Lois Lowry tells a story about how a utopian state required that all of the community's memories going back through the generations be committed to a single person, a receiver. The elders engineered a society where no one but the receiver had to feel or remember. Life was safe and comfortable. The...

Lois Lowry tells a story about how a utopian state required that all of the community's memories going back through the generations be committed to a single person, a receiver. The elders engineered a society where no one but the receiver had to feel or remember. Life was safe and comfortable. The...

Lois Lowry tells a story about how a utopian state required that all of the community's memories going back through the generations be committed to a single person, a receiver. The elders engineered a society where no one but the receiver had to feel or remember. Life was safe and comfortable. The...

Gary Dorrien. The New Abolition: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015. 647 pages. $45.00. The New Abolition is a sobering read. The story of the black church and its struggle against oppression is not well-known by most white evangelical Christians...

Gary Dorrien. The New Abolition: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015. 647 pages. $45.00. The New Abolition is a sobering read. The story of the black church and its struggle against oppression is not well-known by most white evangelical Christians...

Ed Shaw. Same-Sex Attraction and the Church: The Surprising Plausibility of the Celibate Life . Downer's Grove: Intervarsity Press, 2015. 172 pages. $16.00. For far too long in this country it has seemed possible to enjoy both the Christian life and the American dream. Christians have conflated the...

Ed Shaw. Same-Sex Attraction and the Church: The Surprising Plausibility of the Celibate Life . Downer's Grove: Intervarsity Press, 2015. 172 pages. $16.00. For far too long in this country it has seemed possible to enjoy both the Christian life and the American dream. Christians have conflated the...