Academic
Tradition and Apocalypse – David Bentley Hart
I’ve been told for some time that I needed to read David Bentley Hart. Not knowing quite where to start (though his That All Shall Be Saved is on my shelf), I ended up beginning […]
Publisher: Baker Academic
Academic
A Field Guide to Christian Nonviolence – David Cramer and Myles Werntz
Right around the time I became a pacifist—thank you to Nonviolence: The Revolutionary Way of Jesus by Preston Sprinkle for that—I began to seek out other, more academic writings on Christian nonviolence and quickly ran […]
Academic
Covenant – Daniel Block
Daniel I. Block is the Gunther H. Knoedler Professor Emeritus of Old Testament at Wheaton College. He has lectured and taught extensively on the Old Testament and covenant theology for many, many years. He’s written […]
Academic
Women in the Mission of the Church – Leanne Dzubinski and Anneke Stasson
For much of church history, the voices of women have been relatively silenced, stifled under cultural patriarchy that dismissed the importance of women in the church and a Christian humility by women who didn’t seek […]
Academic
Preaching to People in Pain – Matthew Kim
As a pastor, I don’t think it is possible for one to preach with authenticity without recognizing the pain the members of one’s members might be going through—or indeed, without recognizing and acknowledging one’s own […]
Non-Fiction
Gift and Giver – Craig Keener
In 1996, Craig Keener wrote a book called 3 Crucial Questions About the Holy Spirit. Five years later, that content got significantly reworked into the first edition of Gift and Giver: The Holy Spirit for […]
Academic
The Art of Preaching Old Testament Narrative – Steven Mathewson
Unlike most pastors I know, I love the Old Testament. And I love the Old Testament because I love stories. (This website is called Life is Story, after all.) But preaching Old Testament narrative isn’t […]
Academic
Leadership in Christian Perspective – Justin Irving and Mark Strauss
There are approximately a million books on Christian leadership. I know this because I’m a doctoral candidate working on a degree in pastoral leadership and I’ve had to read most of them. The truth is […]
Academic
Disability: Living into the Diversity of Christ’s Body – Brian Brock
Early on in the book, Brian Brock writes that the majority of pastors, when asked how their church accommodates individuals with disabilities, respond with some form of “Oh, we don’t have any members with disabilities.” […]
Academic
Early North African Christianity – David Eastman
Early North African Christianity begins by defining what he means by Africa, or as the title puts it, North Africa: He will be dealing with that northernmost region of the African continent while it was under […]