Theology That Bites Back
This category contains the resources that I have found useful in my personal and professional life. Admittedly, it is an eclectic list. It contains everything from quotes and books that I like to podcasts, videos, and slideshows.
As the war in Ukraine continues to unfold, and as online discussion about it has resulted in any number of comments that can’t all be true, a few observations have occurred to me. I would like to share them with you here, with the understanding that you will read them as a motley gathering of …
My choice this month—since the times are so tumultuous, and because Kamala Harris is being dispatched yet again to make the Ukraine situation better—is a book calculated to cheer you up a bit. It is called The Storm Before the Calm by George Friedman. This is not a Christian book, and so for the full …
One of the characteristics of writers—okay, okay, quirks, have it your way—is that they are frequently junkies when it comes to reading books on how to write. There are books devoted to dialogue, books devoted to plotting, books devoted to story arc, books devoted grammar and sentence structure, books devoted to the writer’s life, and …
Introduction: https://www.amazon.com/Reforming-Marriage-Douglas-Wilson/dp/1885767455 So this is the second time in the space of a few weeks that I will be responding to some comments by Aaron ...
This book is an exercise in moderate extremism, or perhaps you might want to call it radical moderation. There are truths out there in the world that—twenty years ago—everyone either knew or pretended to know. And, as you should know by now, an extremist in 2022 is a moderate of twenty years ago who refused …
“There are times that make artificial sins and artificial heresies, lest they should find no enemies to fight with. It is bad to cry, ‘Peace, peace!’ when there is no peace. It is just as bad, in some ways it is worse, to cry, ‘War, war!’ when there is no war.”
Phillips Brooks, The Joy of Preaching, p. 219
In Tolkien’s great masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, we certainly know who the bad guys are. Orcs are hard to misidentify, as are the Nazgul, or Gollum, or Sauron. The bad guys are straight up bad. In a similar way, we know who the good guys are. We know that Sam is good, and …
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So I have a new book coming out entitled Gashmu Saith It, the title of which I will explain in a minute. It is being released by Canon together with two other exciting new books, one being In ...
So I am going to do something a little bit different this time around, and recommend as a book of the month a book I have not yet read. I just got it last week, and it is called Intro to Joy. It was written by my sister, Heather Torosyan, who went to be with …
