Non-Fiction
In a Boat in the Middle of a Lake – Patrick & Ruth Schwenk
In a Boat in the Middle of a Lake is a story of finding stability in Christ amid unrest. And if that isn’t a needed theme in 2020, I don’t know what is. Heartache and […]
Articles by Josh Olds
Non-Fiction
Proverbs for You – Kathleen Nielson
The book of Proverbs is a difficult book around which to fashion a cohesive commentary. Like most ANE wisdom literature, Proverbs is a compilation of sayings that are loosely connected and function as statement of […]
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 […]
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. […]