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  • Christmas Book List: Zondervan Commentaries

    There is no shortage of commentaries out there to help you understand books of the Bible better. I’ve done two series on my recommendations for building theological libraries (Old and New) and it’s about time for an update. When I do, I’ll no doubt include some of the volumes from these series as they been…

  • Christmas Book List: Zondervan Counterpoints

    There is no shortage of on-going conversations in the fields of theology and biblical studies. While going to seminary would help you get a good lay of the land, not everyone can or needs to do that. For most people willing to commit to doing some reading, you can find a volume in Zondervan’s Counterpoints…

  • Christmas Book List: New Studies in Biblical Theology

    As we continue the great Christmas book list series, I want to spotlight several volumes in IVP Academic’s New Studies in Biblical Theology series. This is one of my favorite series, and if you search a bit on the blog, you can find longer reviews of most of the volumes. Thanks to IVP Academic for sending me…

  • Christmas Book List: Academic Christology

    [Update: I totally forgot to add a proper intro to this post, and to also note that these titles were mine to read and peruse thanks to Zondervan Academic and IVP Academic.] Christ Alone I’ve written about the Five Solas series elsewhere (see this review of Faith Alone). Stephen Wellum’s contribution on Jesus rounds out the…

  • The Path Between Us: An Enneagram Journey to Healthy Relationships

    I was introduced to the Enneagram about two years ago. It was during our January teacher workday, and a parent of a couple of my students taught a seminar on it (shoutout to Gina Butz!). I introduced Ali to it, and we began a journey of self discovery. Like other personality tests, we tend to…

  • Let’s Get Some Books on Your Christmas List

    Once upon a time, I reviewed books like it was going out of style (as in, 72 in one year). It has since actually gone out of style, but I’ve had a nice break and am resurrecting an old habit. In years past, I’ve done a kind of “books you should add to your Christmas…

  • When Fundamentalism Takes a Left Turn

    I actually forgot why I thought I should read The Once and Future Liberal. But, when I was sorting mail after we got back from vacation, the volume seemed slim enough that I could probably read it on a Sunday afternoon before the 4 o’clock NFL games even kicked off. So I did. Mark Lilla writes…

  • The Spirituality of Wine

    I can count on one hand the number of books I’ve read about wine. Actually, I don’t even need fingers because it’s only this one. This is in part because I’m not a big fan of wine. But, it’s also because there aren’t exactly a whole shelf of books out on there on wine and…

  • Leaving Evangelicalism or Leaving Fundamentalism?

    The past few Monday’s I’ve been working through some of the issues related to interpreting Genesis well (here and here, if you’d like to go back and read). Over the weekend, we had a back porch discussion that led to an epiphany for explaining it even better, but that’ll have to wait until next week.…

  • On Reading Well: Finding The Good Life Through Great Books

    I’ve been writing a bit lately on reading well. I’m mostly focused on reading Genesis well, but I did finish an unrelated (sort of) book about reading well in general. On Reading Well: Finding The Good Life Through Great Books is Karen Swallow Prior’s latest release and was my book of the week last week.…