Category Archives: Recommendations and Reviews

The IMonk Spends Five Hours With Scott Hahn: The Full Report

UPDATE: OK. Here we go again. I’m not putting up with it this time. You want to respond respectfully, great. But anything less than calm and reasonable isn’t going to make it. If you don’t know about my wrestlings with Catholicism, I can’t catch you up. Hit the search engine or ask someone who obsessivelyContinue reading “The IMonk Spends Five Hours With Scott Hahn: The Full Report”

Recommendation and Review: Looking For God by Nancy Ortberg

Looking for God is a collection of personal and topical essays by Nancy Ortberg, loosely themed around the idea of rethinking/rediscovering God through Jesus. Each essay has a central theme, a Biblical center, good questions and outstanding- really, really outstanding- real world illustration and application. While the book doesn’t tell me a lot about Ortberg’sContinue reading “Recommendation and Review: Looking For God by Nancy Ortberg”

Recommendation and Review: My Beautiful Idol by Pete Gall

Matthew 6:31 “So don’t worry about these things, saying, ‘What will we eat? What will we drink? What will we wear?’ 32 These things dominate the thoughts of unbelievers, but your heavenly Father already knows all your needs. 33 Seek the Kingdom of God* above all else, and live righteously, and he will give youContinue reading “Recommendation and Review: My Beautiful Idol by Pete Gall”

A Must Have Book on Jesus

Because you have a real life, maybe you can only read one book about Jesus scholarship this year. What’s it going to be? I love N.T. Wright’s Jesus and The Victory of God, but unless you are used to scholarly exegesis and discussion, you need something aimed more at the non-academic, but not short-changing youContinue reading “A Must Have Book on Jesus”

William Paul Young (author of “The Shack”) on Steve Brown, Etc.

UPDATE: Here’s an example of what Young is writing at his own blog these days. I cannot tell you how important it is for you to go listen to this interview. If you’ve read The Shack and wondered how the story expresses the faith journey of the author, this is the interview you are waitingContinue reading “William Paul Young (author of “The Shack”) on Steve Brown, Etc.”

The Distinquished Faculty of the IM School of Blogging

At the Asbury Bloggers Society meeting last night, we had a wide ranging discussion on various aspects of blogging and ministerial formation at the seminary level. One of my suggestions was that a blogger develop a list of “teaching” blogs that exhibit and demonstrate excellence. Use these blogs to ask yourself questions about your ownContinue reading “The Distinquished Faculty of the IM School of Blogging”

Recommendation: Beyond Smells and Bells by Mark Galli

Mark Galli: Beyond Smells and Bells: The Wonder and Power of Christian Liturgy Well….just go buy this book. I know you plan on buying some other book about things you already know, but you need this book, because it’s absolutely a 512 foot home run on the subject of liturgy in worship, and you knowContinue reading “Recommendation: Beyond Smells and Bells by Mark Galli”

Recommendation and Review: Surprised By Hope by N.T. Wright

UPDATE: I agree with Doug Wilson that Wright’s lefty politics is a considerably different matter than his theology in this book. With Surprised by Hope, N.T. Wright has done several important things. He has written perhaps his most accessible theological book on an important topic of interest to not only most Christians, but to millionsContinue reading “Recommendation and Review: Surprised By Hope by N.T. Wright”

Recommendation and Review: Take This Bread by Sara Miles

A profile of Sara Miles at Religion and Ethics This Week. Sara Miles.net. Easily qualifying as the most interesting spiritual memoir I’ve read since Merton’s Seven Storey Mountain, Sara Miles’ Take This Bread is an incredible blast of fresh air into the shelves of ever-less-relevant accumulations of prose that pass for Christian writing these days.Continue reading “Recommendation and Review: Take This Bread by Sara Miles”