Children's Books
The Cat Way – Sara Lundberg
My five-year-old daughter loves to pretend to be a cat. For three months last year, she woke up; got dressed; and clipped on a cat tail to her tights, put a toy collar around her […]
Publisher: Eerdmans
Children's Books
Bless Our Pets – ed. Lee Bennett Hopkins, illus. Lita Judge
Bless Our Pets is the perfect book for anyone who loves both poetry and pets. Edited by acclaimed poet Lee Bennett Hopkins shortly before his death in 2019, this book brings together fourteen poems from […]
Children's Books
It is Okay – Ye Guo
The theme of It is Okay is spelled out on the final panel of the book: “Goat and Bunny are very different. But it is okay.” The story is about two unlikely friends who first […]
Academic
Ministers of Propaganda – Scott M. Coley
The inside flap of Ministers of Propaganda: Truth, Power, and the Ideology of the Religious Right reads in large, emblazoned letters: “Good evangelical Christians are Republicans. It seems like it’s always been that way. That […]
Children's Books
The Last Tiger – Petr Horacek
The Last Tiger reads like a forgotten Aesop’s fairy tale. Short, simple, evocative, and with an animal friend as its protagonist, The Last Tiger is a straightforward parable about the danger of pride and the […]
Children's Books
Fast Cheetah, Slow Tortoise – Bette Westera and Mies van Hout
The natural world is stunning in its breadth and depth. God’s creation is vast in scope and there are any number of animals who aren’t just different from one another but absolute opposites. Fast Cheetah, […]
Non-Fiction
Holy Hell: A Case Against Eternal Damnation – Derek Ryan Kubilus
Over the past several years, I’ve been deconstructing. Not because I wanted to be trendy. Not even necessarily because I found myself hurt by the church—which has been the case for so many that I […]
Academic
The Book of Micah (NICOT) – James D. Nogalski
New International Commentaries are the one commentary set of which I own every volume and it has become my constant companion in biblical exegesis and sermon preparation. Even when I don’t agree with the conclusions, […]
Academic
The Disappearance of Ethics – Oliver O’Donovan
The Gifford Lectures were established in 1887 at the four ancient universities of Scotland—St Andrews, Glasgow, Aberdeen, and Edinburgh—to promote the study of natural theology. Speaking at a Gifford is one of the most prestigious […]
Non-Fiction
Defending Democracy from Its Christian Enemies – David Gushee
For all that it does, Defending Democracy from Its Christian Enemies doesn’t really do what the title says. Gushee acts as a historian rather than a social commentator. He gives readers a diagnosis, but not […]