Shelf Life

This is a profoundly misleading and disappointing book. Or maybe you want to know what I really think! The title, Pagan Christianity, is misleading, even if the subtitle is clear. I was doubtless asked to review this book because of the many years I have spent studying ancient and modern paganism...

Anne Rice has undergone a radical transformation. A bestselling author, whose novels have sold over 100 million copies, she recently returned to the Roman Catholic faith of her youth, and in so doing abandoned her former subject matter (vampires) and turned instead to a series of books dramatizing...

Packer...Piper...Ferguson...Sproul...Ryken...Duncan...Thomas...the list goes on and on. Meet the Puritans almost seems to blush with all of its accolades and endorsements. This impressive work finds its genesis with a series of articles written in the 1980's for the Banner of Truth (U.S.) entitled...

"Who do you say that I am?" is the most important question Jesus ever posed to his disciples and it remains to this day the most important question that anyone can answer. Daniel R. Hyde, Pastor of Oceanside United Reformed Church, provides an answer to this question in God With Us by asserting and...

If you're looking for something theologically deep, this is not it. Instead, what we have here is John Stott dreaming of what he desires the church to reflect. The occasion was the 150th anniversary of the dedication of one of the most famous evangelical churches in Britain, All Soul's in Langham...

I have to admit that I am pretty skeptical when it comes to "Christian" films. Too often, films producers major on the "Christian" part and leave the art of good filmmaking and story behind. Too often they are cheesy, sappy, maudlin, or blasphemous. Some figure that unless someone gets saved and...

"In the midst of this breathtaking praise of creation, the speechless paean of the cosmos to its Creator, the Christian faith dares to affirm that a creature, Homo sapiens, is given a singular calling: not simply to acknowledge the cosmic symphony, but also to enable, articulate, and extend it in...

One, two, three, four... ten...twenty...twenty-eight! As I sit to write this review, I find myself surrounded by a great cloud of worldview books. Twenty-eight to be painstakingly exact! Some of these books claim to help one "build a Christian worldview," others seek to catalog and critically...

When Bart's Ehrman's Misquoting Jesus hit the shelves, the media went nuts. There were NPR interviews, appearances on John Stewart's The Daily Show and the Diane Rehm Show, plus praise from the Washington Post and The Dallas Morning News. The result was Ehrman's book landed a spot on the New York...

The Beauty of God contains a collection of ten essays presented at the 2006 Wheaton Theology Conference. The essays are divided topically into three categories: music, visual arts, and texts and culture. As with any collection of essays, viewpoints, perspectives, theology, and content vary from...