Empires of Dirt

This book is explained in the subtitle, which is “Secularism, Radical Islam, and the Mere Christendom Alternative.” In the book I interact with many Christian voices that beg to differ — men like Darryl Hart, Greg Boyd, Jason Stellman, et al. 

Easy Chairs Hard Words

This book should best be described as an introduction to basic Calvinism. It is written in a dialog format, as an older, experienced pastor walks through the basic issues involved with a young man who has lots of questions.

Collision

Christianity Today Online hosted a written debate between Christopher Hitchens and me, which was then subsequently turned into a book, found elsewhere in this list, called Is Christianity Good for the World? When that book was released, Christopher and I did a mini-release tour together in New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. A camera crew followed us, …

Bound Only Once

This is a collection of essays that I edited, and contributed to, addressing the challenges presented by the openness of God movement.

Back to Basics

This book has four contributors on various aspects of the Reformed faith. My section is the first, in which I argue for basic Calvinism, of the sort that doesn’t wince when articulating its own positions.

Angels in Architecture

This book, written together with Doug Jones, was intended as a primer or introduction to the basic approach to Christian living in community that we were striving to establish here in Moscow. It needs revision, but it is still a very good introduction to what we are attempting.

Against the Church

The centrality of regeneration has to be affirmed, again and again. One of the reasons is that the world likes being unregenerate, and keeps coming up with reasons to try to stay there.