Book Reviews
Our desire is that these resources will point you to the Way, help you know Truth and how it is applied in life.
Post Woke [Neil Shenvi; Pat Sawyer]
In the last two decades, America radically reimagined its moral assumptions. To see how far the ground has shifted, one need only remember that Obama and the state of California both publicly opposed gay marriage as recently as 2008. That’s an astounding fact. Today, arguments about systemic racism, DEI initiatives,…
Happy Lies [Melissa Dougherty]
Twenty years ago, the most formidable opponent to Christianity was atheism, which painted Christians as backward and unscientific; today, the greater challenge comes from vague spirituality—people accept all kinds of supernatural beliefs as long as it’s nothing too dogmatic. What changed, and how should Christians respond to this new reality?…
The Question of Canon [Michael J. Kruger]
Why is there a New Testament? For most of us, that question has never entered our minds—we take it for granted that the New Testament books were God’s idea. Ask most New Testament scholars, however, and you’ll find a very different conclusion: that the church invented the New Testament canon…
Finding the Right Hills to Die On [Gavin Ortlund]
Paradoxically, Anabaptists have earned a reputation for both a strong emphasis on unity and a tendency toward schism. Perhaps this results from conflating unity with uniformity, which makes division the only option when disagreements inevitably arise. Of course, though we should never seek division, sometimes it’s necessary to protect the…
Zondervan Handbook of Biblical Archaeology [H. Wayne House; Randall Price]
Implicit in accepting the Bible’s inerrancy is accepting it as history. Those who separate theological truth from historical truth, as it turns out, create an acid that destroys everything it touches. The Bible simply cannot be right about marriage, or human dignity, or justification if it’s wrong about the history…
Why Social Justice is Not Biblical Justice [Scott Allen]
This past year, the polarizing prominence of Black Lives Matter has brought the social justice movement to everyone’s doorstep. Increasingly, those blissfully or willfully ignorant are forced to take sides – to share the right posts on social media, to put up the right sign in the yard, to signal…
Why Bother with Church? [Sam Allberry]
By the world’s estimation, the church has been sliding – for several decades – down the track of obsolescence. Though once a pillar of Western society, the church no longer enjoys popularity or social approval. And increasingly, not just the world, but also the next generation of church members is…
When People are Big and God is Small [Edward T. Welch]
When People are Big and God is Small by Edward T. Welch is one of those books that I’ve heard about—even had on my shelf—but never actually read. Perhaps that’s because it addresses a problem far easier to see in others than ourselves. Sure, we all felt insecure as teenagers…
When Home Hurts [Greg Wilson; Jeremy Pierre]
What does the word “home” evoke in you? To me, home is a light left on when you return after dark, the scent of bread baking, familiar voices in the next room. But for those suffering domestic abuse, home is an ugly place, an edifice of pain and fear. When…
The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self [Carl Trueman]
Why does the statement “I am a woman trapped in a man’s body” make sense? Why do ordinary people accept those words as meaningful? The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self is Carl Trueman’s attempt to answer that question. Trueman—a professor, historian, and Christian—explains that the sexual revolution did…
The Rage Against God [Peter Hitchens]
Of all the ideologies that reject the Christian God, atheism seems the most difficult to answer. How should we respond to its professed monopoly on reason or its withering tirades? Yet that intellectual exterior, as Peter Hitchens shows us, is just new paint on regular old rebellion. Upon realizing that…
The Peacemaking Church [Curtis Heffelfinger]
Anabaptists are often called “the quiet in the land” – outsiders know us for our unpretentious, hardworking, peace-loving ways. Peace-loving, that is, until it comes to church problems. Instead of cultivating peace, we tear each other down, take sides against our brothers, and split churches over trifles. Should not our…
