Academic
God on the Brain – Bradley Sickler
God on the Brain is a heavy read. Of course, the subtitle: What Cognitive Science Does (and Does Not) Tell Us about Faith, Human Nature, and the Divine could have told you that. As humans […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
Academic
Worship and the World to Come: Exploring Christian Hope in Contemporary Worship – Glenn Packiam
In this academic work, pastor and professor Glenn Packiam explores contemporary worship through the dual lenses of theology and sociology. He seeks to understand the reality of Christian hope through Scripture, but he also investigates […]
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Friendship: The Heart of Being Human – Victor Lee Austin
This book elevates friendship as the definitive human relationship experience. Victor Lee Austin pushes back against common secular and Christian assumptions about human nature, arguing that even though sexual love is deeply important, it is […]
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When Doctrine Divides the People of God – Rhyne Putman
Emo Philips was kind of a weird, surreal type of comedian in the 1970s and 80s. He was famous for his use of paraprosdokians—a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence, […]
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The Bible and the Ballot – Tremper Longman III
Religion and politics are two subjects you’re not supposed to talk about at the dinner table. Over the past few years, how those two subjects intersect and overlap has been pushed center-stage into the forum […]
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The Holy Spirit (Theology for the People of God) – Gregg Allison & Andreas Kostenberger
The topic of the Holy Spirit can often be overwhelming. Churches and denominational traditions seem to either place the Spirit in a place of great prominence or very nearly downplay the Spirit into nonexistence, at […]
Academic
God and Guns in America – Michael Austin
It tends to happen every time there’s a mass shooting. Las Vegas Orlando Virginia Tech Sandy Hook El Paso Columbine (the list could go on) Reaction to these senseless deaths is swift (thoughts and prayers) […]
Academic
The Bible and Borders – M. Daniel Carroll R.
I’ll never forget the evening that my family volunteered to drive just-released refugees to the airport. Our local county jail in Oklahoma was being leased as an ICE detainment center. Asylum seekers were detained at […]