As Phil has commented, the Christianity Today list of the 50 most important Christian books of the last fifty years shows a decided tilt towards Christian experience over Christian truth. In other words, it depicts a pietistic era spanning a half-century…
In looking through Christianity Today‘s list of the most influential evangelical books of the last half century, one can’t help but notice the dearth of substantive theology. There are plenty of experiential biographies, lots of “practical” books for family life…
Bob Brady — who serves as Executive Vice President for the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals — tells me that the Reformation Society in Alaska recently had a very encouraging first meeting. One of the visitors was a high school student who has…
There is something aleatoric about the content of these columns. Frankly, it depends on what has been buzzing around my head in the last seven days. And what is it this week? Well, a conversation with a Jewish lady who…
In their 50th anniversary edition Christianity Today published their take on the top 50 books in evangelicalism’s last 50 years–those “landmark titles that changed the way we think, talk, witness, worship, and live.” Anyone planning to add their #1 book…
Justin Taylor commented a while back that evangelicalism is no longer capable of parody, it has become so much a caricature of itself. In the spirit of that comment, I give you “Your Best Life Now–the Game,” inspired by Joel Osteen’s…
Recently I have been reading Jeffery Sheler’s Believers: A Journey into Evangelical America. Sheler is Contributing Editor for Religion with U.S. News and World Report. While he would not identify himself as an evangelical, Sheler grew up in an evangelical…
Having been nurtured in the warmth of the doctrines of grace for my entire Christian life, I am often dismayed at charges that are leveled against Calvinism, especially those that would depict the Reformed faith as legalistic and harsh. Unfortunately,…
Boy she’s good. Here’s her take on Bob Woodward’s State of Denial.
Oxford University Press have just released the paperback edition of Augustine’s Commentary on Galatians in a fresh translation and lengthy (very lengthy!) introduction by University of Scranton professor, Eric Plumer (hardback edition appeared in 2003). What caught my eye (amidst…
