“A near-perfect movie,” said Time magazine’s Richard Corliss in reference to Kathryne Bigelow’s film, The Hurt Locker,” a tense military drama following an elite Army bomb squad unit which turned out to be one of the most critically acclaimed films…
Simonetta Carr, Lady Jane Grey (Grand Rapids: Reformation Heritage Books, 2012), $18.00, hardcover. One of the most encouraging trends in Christian children’s literature is the publication of more stories that our kids will not like. If our children like all…
Some may say producer/director Peter Jackson’s latest J. R. R. Tolkien adaption is an unexpected disappointment of phantom menace proportions because Jackson himself has been corrupted by the power of the One Ring. Others may say this movie was a…
Iain D. Campbell and Malcolm Maclean, eds., The People’s Theologian: Essays in Honour of Donald Macleod. Ross-shire: Christian Focus Mentor Imprint, 2011. Iain D. Campbell, ed., Heart of the Gospel: Meditations on Christ and the Christian Life, Ross-shire: Christian Focus, 1995. One day early…
David B. Calhoun, Our Southern Zion: Old Columbia Seminary, 1828-1927, Banner of Truth, 2012, 380 pages, cloth, illustrated, and index. The city of Columbia was created the capital of South Carolina by the state legislature in 1786. It was…
Peter J. Gentry and Stephen J. Wellum, Kingdom Through Covenant: A Biblical-Theological Understanding of the Covenants (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2012) 848pp. The new volume by Gentry and Wellum, Kingdom Through Covenant (KtC), has gained high praise among many Reformed Baptists.…
Sam Allberry, Lifted: Experiencing the Resurrection Life (Phillipsburg: P&R Publishing, 2012). 142 pages. First published in the UK by Inter-Varsity Press in 2010. Introduction Many people recite the Apostle’s Creed each Lord’s Day and profess the resurrected Christ, but the…
Lydia Brownback, A Woman’s Wisdom: How the book of Proverbs Speaks to Everything, (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2012). “A woman’s wisdom? But Proverbs was written to young men!” God has given us special challenges in the wisdom literature of Scripture, in…
Philip Graham Ryken, Loving the Way Jesus Loves (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 2012), 224 pp. Every once in a while, a book comes along that immediately becomes a “must read.” Phil Ryken’s Loving the Way Jesus Loves is one such…
James D. Bratt and Ronald A. Wells, eds., The Best of the Reformed Journal (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2011), 343 pages. A Spirited Discussion On the surface, this volume is an oddly delightful anthology of pithy readings culled from…
