UPDATE: This reviewer totally gets it. Crazy for God is available at many bookstores. A really good review and the C-SPAN program link. I just closed the cover on the 400 pages of Crazy For God and I probably shouldn’t be writing anything until I have more perspective, but I want to write now, whileContinue reading “Recommendation and Review: Crazy For God by Frank Schaeffer”
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Recommendation: Beyond the Gates
Beyond The Gates (also known as Shooting Dogs) doesn’t have the star power, script, skill or reviewer good will of Hotel Rwanda, but I found it to be far more affecting. If you can appreciate a movie about genocide, filmed on location at the site of mass murder and using many actual survivors in theContinue reading “Recommendation: Beyond the Gates”
A Lord’s Supper Book for the Rest of Us: Making a Meal of It by Ben Witherington III
UPDATE III: If this post has been construed as anti-Catholic, I’m sorry. I assure you that was never my intention. Commending Dr. Witherington for offering up a theology of the supper for those of us who are not Catholics or Calvinists doesn’t seem to me to be ipso facto an attack on Catholics. UPDATE II:Continue reading “A Lord’s Supper Book for the Rest of Us: Making a Meal of It by Ben Witherington III”
Best Book Ever: A Review of Christianity’s Dangerous Idea by Alister McGrath
Here’s an audio interview with Alister McGrath on the book. It will set you up for a great read. How’s your knowledge of the history of Protestantism? Are you intimidated by the scholarly tomes that give the history and theology of various reforms and traditions? Do you understand what it means to be a ProtestantContinue reading “Best Book Ever: A Review of Christianity’s Dangerous Idea by Alister McGrath”
Recommendation and Review: Butterfly in Brazil by Glenn Packiam
In the center of our campus is a poem on a monument. The poem, which I can’t find online and won’t reproduce, is about accepting that God has sent you to serve in a small place. You’ve said, “Here am I, Lord. Send me,” and God has sent you to a place in the literalContinue reading “Recommendation and Review: Butterfly in Brazil by Glenn Packiam”
No Riff Necessary: Amy Welborn Takes A Roman Catholic View of the Evangelical Circus
When someone else looks at what you spend all your time looking at….and they see the same incredible, unthinkable, unexplainable, bizarre, sad, madhouse of a thing…you feel better. Thanks, Amy. I feel better. No….actually….I think I’m feeling worse. THANKS A LOT. The best writer in the reasonable Roman Catholic blogosphere takes a look at theContinue reading “No Riff Necessary: Amy Welborn Takes A Roman Catholic View of the Evangelical Circus”
Recommendation and Review: Morte D’Urban by J.F. Powers
My wife says I need to read more fiction, and she’s right as usual. So, of course, I find a way to read religious fiction. After finishing J.F. Powers Morte D’Urban, I wanted to share this wonderful book with you. J.F. Powers passed away in 1999, and recent reissues of his novels and short storiesContinue reading “Recommendation and Review: Morte D’Urban by J.F. Powers”
Recommendation and Review: Ten Reasons to Love The ESV Literary Study Bible
I’ve seen so many special edition Bibles the last ten years that I’ve gotten very cynical about anything new. When I see things like the Maxwell Leadership Bible or a newly released Apologetics Bible that features an endless list of “Big Names” on the front, it’s easy to get cynical. What are publishers thinking aboutContinue reading “Recommendation and Review: Ten Reasons to Love The ESV Literary Study Bible”
Great Lectionary Preaching
I’m absolutely enthused over two sermon podcasts I’ve been listening to for several weeks. Both are examples of Anglican/Episcopal Churches that are standing for historic orthodoxy, but also embodying the Gospel in relevant, lively, ground-level Christian communities. I want to recommend these podcasts for all my listeners. Both are simple outstanding, and both are lectionaryContinue reading “Great Lectionary Preaching”
Recommendation: The Myth of Certainty by Daniel Taylor
Many of the books I review here at IM are books that are either sent to me by publishers or recommended by friends I respect. In the case of Daniel Taylor’s The Myth of Certainty, I found the book on my own, and quickly fell in love with every single page. I can’t think ofContinue reading “Recommendation: The Myth of Certainty by Daniel Taylor”
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