Books; summer reading

Review of Jeffrey Johnson’s The Revealed God (part 2)

Derrick Brite
Jun 17, 2024
In the first part of my review of Jeffrey Johnson’s new work, The Revealed God , I looked at a few of the historical claims and figures that Johnson employed to defend his thesis. In this section, I want to look at Johnson’s rejection of any secular philosophy in favor of an exclusively biblical-...

Gentle & Lowly In Light of a Few Years

Mark Jones
May 1, 2024
Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers (Crossway, 2020), by Dane Ortlund, has been very well received in the broader Reformed and evangelical world. I was asked to review this book years ago, but it seemed that any form of engagement other than full appreciation was going...

Review: Crossway's Owen, vol. 7

Paul Sanduleac
Jul 5, 2023
Crossway’s newly published Volume 7 of Owen’s Complete Works is made up of two treatises: The Reason of Faith (p.71-208) and The Causes, Ways, and Means of Understanding the Mind of God (p. 209-349). It features an excellent Editor’s Introduction, situating John Owen and this particular volume in...

My Covid Year Reading: The Last Battle

Stephen Unthank
Jul 16, 2021
“In the Last Days of Narnia, far up to the west.” This is how C.S. Lewis begins the end of The Chronicles of Narnia, The Last Battle . I reread this book last year, right in the middle of the pandemic lock-downs, and since doing so I’ve found myself more and more referring to the book to help find...

Why Should You Be Acquainted with John Owen? Podcast

Jonathan Master
May 17, 2021
Why Should You Be Acquainted with John Owen? Jonathan and James are pleased to be talking with Crawford Gribben today. He’s the professor of Early Modern British History at Queen’s University in Belfast. Gribben has written An Introduction to John Owen: A Christian Vision for Every Stage of Life ,...

Summer Reading

Todd Pruitt
Jun 7, 2017
Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas Ricks I’m a few chapters into this and am already hooked. It is the story of how these two men, so different from each other, found a common cause in the defeat of tyranny. The author also demonstrates the power of ideas when they are...

Summer Reading

Todd Pruitt
Jun 7, 2011
My plan is to add the following to my current reading list for this summer. I have already started on the two biographies. Great stuff. Truman by David McCullough John MacArthur by Iain Murray The U Turn Church by Harney & Bouwer

Summer Reading

Todd Pruitt
May 28, 2010
Over at First Thoughts, Joe Carter has posted his top 50 Summer Reads . This is a great list because many of the books are quite accessable rather than a bunch of high brow nonsense. Of the books that make Carter's list that I have read I heartily recommend: Enders Game All The Pretty Horses The...

Summer Reading

Thabiti Anyabwile
Jun 29, 2009
A while back, someone started us off with a list of their summer reading. Seeing that I didn't finish last summer's reading, I'm being a little less ambitious this year. But here are a few things I'm enjoying or hope to enjoy before the summer is over. What Is the What: The Autobiography of...

Summer Reading

Carl Trueman
Jun 10, 2009
Derek has asked what should be read this summer. Here's what I'm aiming to dispatch (and, in case you were wondering, he banned me from citing the Beano Annual as he tells me that is not published until November -- but it will no doubt be a good read when it comes): Two biographies of significant...