Book Reviews

Unlike many books in the same vein, Chasing after Wind gives a startlingly honest, yet hopeful review of a life spent in pastoral ministry.

Lifting the Veil is a wondrous bridge between matter and meaning. Its message is pertinent to anyone who wants to find more meaning in the world around them.

The headlines these days tell us that history—and especially the teaching of history—is a major front for the culture wars. In his new book Small Wonders, James Calvin Schaap illustrates a way to diffuse that war before it begins: practice local history.

Overall, fans of Pollan will find much to interest them in This is Your Mind on Plants, and new readers will likely be inspired to explore his work further.

If we take Lundberg seriously, the only properly Christian attitude to war is grim determination to fight justly, no matter how much it costs us personally, and to engage in honest repentance and lament when the fighting has subsided and the long and tortuous road of the life of a war veteran begins.

Refugia Faith is one of the best books in print on how people of faith can summon the hope and the courage needed to heal and restore our home planet.

Willimon has waited until retirement and his senior years to write one of his most practical and thoughtful books.  Pastors and parishioners preparing for retirement do not need only a financial advisor but a Christian theological worldview that helps us to cherish the last third of life, be honest about our coming death, and live with the sure and certain hope of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Willimon's book explores precisely this,

Wirzba wants his readers to learn that, as creatures, human beings are “needy and dependent” on God, one another, and worms and spiders. Wirzba wants his readers to recognize that human beings are gifts to our fellow creatures and our fellow creatures are gifts to us