Fiction
The Edge of Belonging – Amanda Cox
I wanted so badly to love this book and for three hundred and fifty-nine pages that is exactly what I did. The Edge of Belonging is a story of discovering identity and finding family. You […]
Year: 2020
Non-Fiction
Where is God in All the Suffering – Amy Orr-Ewing
Where is God in all the Suffering? It’s a question both easy and difficult to answer. The easy answer, the typical answer, comes in the line from that old Footprints poem “It was then that […]
Non-Fiction
2084: AI and the Future of Humanity – John Lennox
So…I’m not quite sure what to do with this book. John Lennox is a bona fide genius (PhD, DPhil, DSc, Professor Emeritus at Oxford). He’s the intellectual that comes out to dispute Dawkins, Harris, and […]
Academic
The Educational Ministry of a Church – J. Jonathan Kim Charles Tidwell
Every church that I’ve ever worked in has struggled with its educational ministry. There’s a loose idea that we should be teaching, a general idea of how to teach, but rarely anything that coheres into […]
Non-Fiction
Half the Battle – Jon Chasteen
We all have hidden hurts. They’re the losses that we’ve buried deep within ourselves. The childhood traumas that we’ve consciously forgotten. The pent-up anger and frustration of some unmet expectations. Jon Chasteen uses the imagery […]
Non-Fiction
Deeper Still – Linda Allcock
We live in a busy world. Even as technology has made our lives more productive, we’ve continued to push ourselves past normal limits in a way completely derogatory to our mental health. To push back […]
Non-Fiction
Held: 31 Biblical Reflections on God’s Comfort and Care in the Sorrow of Miscarriage
Experiencing a miscarriage can be one of the loneliest experiences a mother can go through. Even if the grief is shared—with friends, family, or the father—the loss for the mother is tangible in a way […]
Academic
The History of Apologetics – Benjamin Forrest, Joshua Chatraw, and Alister McGrath
I was ten years old when I first read Evidence that Demands a Verdict by Josh McDowell. It was my first attempt to parse an academic work. I probably didn’t understand a lot of it. […]
Non-Fiction
Dear White Christians – Jennifer Harvey
Dear White Christians is one of those books that it took me a while to get through. (My apologies to Eerdmans, who is probably convinced I forgot all about them.) In the wake of George […]
Fiction
Pearl in the Sand – Tessa Afshar
I have read several novels centered around the story of Rahab, and each one has left me both convicted and filled with an intense warmth that can only come from God. Pearl in the Sand […]