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Outside the Heavenly City
I know nothing about Dr. Steven W. Waterhouse, except that he’s written Outside the Heavenly City: Abortion in Rome and the Early Church’s Response. But I’d really like to meet him. It’s a fascinating...
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Carbonated Holiness
I’ve been reading Anne Lamott’s Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith. She’s an amazing writer. We don’t agree on a whole lot, theologically or politically, but the whole book is worth this beautiful...
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How to Criticize Popular Fiction
1998 saw the publication of the first Harry Potter book, and a firestorm of Christian criticism followed. Christian parents who months before had lovingly read the Chronicles of Narnia to their...
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A Serrated Edge, Part II
Some while ago I recommended Doug Wilson’s fine little volume A Serrated Edge. For those of you who haven’t yet had the pleasure, it is a sterling defense of mockery and sarcasm as biblically...
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As Others See Us
In the final stanza of his memorable poem “To a Mouse,” Robert Burns wrote: O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us It wad frae monie a blunder free us An’ foolish notion...
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Speaker for the Dead
I’m going to hear about this one, I’m sure, so let me just get the scary bits out in the open right away. This is a book review of sorts–a very favorable one–of a science fiction novel. It was...
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Book Salad
It has been a while since I put up any book reviews, and I have been reading all along. I don’t intend to start writing detailed reviews at this point — too much else to do. But I’ve been reading some...
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Another Book Salad
I just finished Leading Kingdom Movements by Mike Breen. It’s worth reviewing for sure, but this is also a good occasion to look back over Breen’s output in the last few years. The man has written four...
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Every year I set a reading goal. This year, it was only 25 books, split between the professionally relevant, the devotional, and fun. For me, that’s a remarkably unambitious goal, and it reflects the...
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2018 Books in Review
I set goals every year, and I always include a reading goal. This year was a little different for goal-setting, but I still set a reading goal to finish 30 books. I read 40. Over drinks a couple nights...
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