Category: How-To
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Fool’s Talk: Recovering The Art of Christian Persuasion
I have a fairly long interest in apologetics. I’m not actually sure when it started, but the skeleton was taking shape by the time I left Bible school and was put to the test while I worked at Starbucks. The bones got meat put on them while I was in seminary, and I would eventually win…
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For The Love of God’s Word: An Introduction to Biblical Interpretation
Because I spend a good bit of my time teaching the Bible, books on biblical interpretation always catch my eye. On my book review page, the “Hermeneutics” section gives you a good idea of volumes I’ve read in the past few years. One of those, Invitation to Biblical Interpretation, now has an abridged version. Although…
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New Books of Note
One of my earliest reviews was Joe Thorn’s Note to Self. I thought it was an excellent little devotional work.It is not so much something you read and move on from, but continue to come back to read time and time again. In a very similar vein, Joe Thorn’s most recent book, Experiencing The Trinity: The…
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How To Program Your Mind To Stop Buying Books You Don’t Need
Just so you know, I have self-consciously adapted this from a Lifehacker article. With that out of the way, let’s be honest. If you’re like me, you’ve probably spent way more money on books than you could ever justify. This is a safe place. You can admit it. You’ve made poor financial choices involving book…
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Quality Research Papers: For Students of Religion and Theology
When I first started seminary, I had to take a class on research methods. It was only a credit hour, and in addition to the Turabian style manual, one of our textbooks was Nancy Vyhmeister’s Quality Research Papers: For Students of Religion and Theology. There may have been a second edition available at that point,…
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A Bad Reason to Want to Review Books
[This post is part of Reviewing The Life of Book Reviewing] I think before really talking about techniques or trade secrets when it comes to book reviews, it’s worth asking why. Why would you want to review books? I think of several reasons, but if it’s something you’re going to make a habit of, you…
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A Flowchart To Figure Out What Kind of Procrastinator You Are
(via Lifehacker)
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New Series: Reviewing The Life of Book Reviewing
For a while, I’ve been thinking about doing a series on book reviewing. It’s something I’ve been known to do in semi-prolific proportions. It’s also something that my interest and capacity for is waning. Book reviewing was a way of keeping my free time under guardians and managers until the date of resuming school. Since…
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Those Who Can, Teach: Teaching as Christian Vocation
Stanley E. Porter, ed., Those Who Can, Teach: Teaching as Christian Vocation (McMaster Divinity College Press General Series). Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, August, 2013. 226 pp. Paperback, $25.00. Buy it: Amazon Visit the publisher’s page Thanks to Wipf & Stock for the review copy! I’ve realized recently that I need to do more practical reading. That used to be the bulk…
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How to Persuade People Who Don’t Want to Be Persuaded
Every now and then, ideas I have for blog posts indirectly relate to larger online conversations. Even before this week, I was planning on talking about this chapter from Think Like A Freak. Given the discussions I’ve seen on Twitter (as a result of blog posts and movements in evangelicalism), I hope you find this…