Reviews

This book might open the eyes of young readers (and older ones, too) so that we can see enemies as fellow humans, as people in need, and as brothers and sisters with the potential to work with us to heal this broken world.

This important book, which should be read by every pastor and Christian academic—every one of them—is not only about the at-risk authority of science in the evangelical church, but just as much about the crisis of authority in contemporary American life.

Written and edited by seven Biblical scholars with an excellent foreword by Stanley Hauerwas, each chapter is steeped in Biblical scholarship but written for a wide audience.

Even though the idea of proximate has remained part of my thinking and living for the last twenty years, I confess that I have often been tempted to give up. If I haven’t yet lost my dynamic of hope, I think I am in the process of losing it, given the fractured and violent world we currently inhabit. So it seems this book came to me at just the right time, at a time when I needed to, as Garber…

Readers will come away with a better understanding of how cells work and why sometimes the cells in our bodies fail...Most importantly, I think readers will come away with a new level of awe at the wonder of God’s good creation and a deeper reason to worship the author of these wonder-filled, smallest units of life we call cells.

This is a book about love, which makes it a book for all of us, because we all need instruction in that gentle art. It’s a book that builds empathy and reminds us that we rarely have any idea what sort of burden others are carrying.

Sun House reads like Duncan's other novels: sprawling, ambitious, imperfect, bursting with humor and sex and spiritual longing, drawing on ancient wisdom traditions of every kind and synthesizing them into nothing less audacious than a new nonreligion, which he calls Dumpster Catholicism.