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  • Jesus On Every Page

    David Murray was a pastor in Scotland for a dozen years before crossing “the pond” in 2007 to take up his present position as Professor of Old Testament and Practical Theology at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary (246). He is also one of my favorite bloggers and blogs regularly at headhearthand.org (and has a Tumblr as…

  • A Neglected Grace: Family Worship in The Christian Home

    Jason Helopoulos is Assistant Pastor of University Reformed Church in East Lansing, Michigan. If you’re keeping score at home, that’s Kevin DeYoung’s church, and he and Jason are good friends. Jason is also a graduate of Dallas Seminary (finishing the same year I started college), so we probably have some mutual professor friends. What I’m…

  • Death By Living: Life Is Meant To Be Spent

    Much like his last foray into non-fiction, N. D. Wilson’s Death By Living: Life Is Meant To Be Spent does not lend itself to easy review. It is kind of a genre-breaker, but in a good way. It’s non-fiction, but it’s written in imaginative prose and contains a myriad of stories. It reads like meditations on mortality…

  • Echoes of Eden: Reflections on Christianity, Literature, and The Arts

    Jerram Barrs is the founder and resident scholar of the Francis Schaeffer Institute at Covenant Theological Seminary. There he teaches apologetics and outreach as professor of Christian studies. Here, he is writing about the arts, and specifically literature. In doing so, he provides an excellent apologetic for both its value as the creation of God’s…

  • Popcultured: Thinking Christianly About Style, Media, and Entertainment

    Steve Turner is a journalist, writer and poet living in London, England. He has written numerous articles and books[ref]A Hard Day’s Write: The Stories Behind Every “Beatles” Song, Amazing Grace : The Story of America’s Most Beloved Song, The Gospel According to the Beatles, The Band that Played On: The Extraordinary Story of the 8 Musicians Who Went…

  • Preaching The New Testament

    Back in February I think it was, I retweeted a link to a new collection of essays from IVP Academic called Preaching The New Testament. A few weeks later I was surprised to find a copy in my mailbox, but that’s just how awesome Adrianna Wright is over at IVP.[ref]She can almost read my mind when it comes…

  • Is God Anti-Gay?

    I’m not sure whether more people ask “Is God anti-gay?” or “Isn’t God anti-gay?” A lot may depend on the inflection in the question, but certainly the perception in popular culture is that God is probably anti-gay, or if nothing else his most zealous followers certainly are. To help cut through the tangle of questions…

  • Formed For The Glory of God

    Kyle Strobel is the co-founder and director of Metamorpha Ministries and the editor (along with Jamin Goggin) of Reading The Christian Spiritual Classics.[ref]Which I’ll be reviewing soon[/ref]You can connect with him online at his website or on Twitter. This volume, Formed For The Glory of God: Learning From the Spiritual Practices of Jonathan Edwards is part of…

  • Saving Eutychus: How to Preach God’s Word and Keep People Awake

    Both Gary Millar and Phil Campbell are stationed at Queensland Theological College in Brisbane, Australia. Millar is a Northern Irish transplant, and Campbell could be a native for all I know.[ref]The blurbs on the back of the book do not specify Phil’s point of origin like they do for Gary. After reading the book though,…

  • Words For Readers and Writers

    Larry Woiwode is a Guggenheim and Lannan Fellow, recipient of the William Faulkner Foundation Award and John DosPassos Prize, a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Book Critics Circle Award, and has received the Medal of Merit from the American Academy of Arts and Letters “for distinction in the art of the…