Theology That Bites Back
So I feel like a ten-year-old boy who has found, on the very same day, a perfect throwing rock and also a huge nest of hornets under the eaves of his house. The atmosphere is electric, but the obvious thing to do is to just let fly, and keep the comments closed. This book was …
This is a book that is required reading for every Christian who is active in politics at the local level. Although postmill thinkers excel at thinking about the long game, it is possible at the same time to neglect the possibility of the three-yard gain. The possibility of such neglect will be greatly reduced if …
As many of you know, I preach from the King James Version of the Bible. If any of you are interested in learning the basic reasons why, this little book should do it. When I was working through these issues surrounding all this, lo, these many years ago, I read a boatload of material from …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
The first thing to note is that this is an abridged version—gleanings from William Gurnall’s massive work of the same name. This small version, published and sold by Community Christian Ministries, is an outstanding collection of some of Gurnall’s best passages. Gurnall was a Puritan, through and through. “Can Christ be in thou heart and …
These are tumultuous times to be alive, and one of the things we most desire in such times is orientation. Now for Christians, our ultimate orientation is always to be Christ, but that doesn’t take anything away from our desire to be oriented to the facts as they are on the ground. Say you were …
