Category: Misc.

  • How To Spend That Amazon Gift Card You Just Got: Book Edition

    It’s the day after Christmas. Some of you all got those books you wanted for Christmas. Others got books, and others got the most versatile gift of all for the bibliophile: the Amazon Gift Card.[ref]Still others did not want books, and so were not disappointed by not getting them. If that’s you, then this post…

  • Gray Matters: Navigating The Space Between Legalism and Liberty

    Brett McCracken, Gray Matters: Navigating The Space Between Legalism and Liberty. Grand Rapids: Baker Books, August, 2013. 272 pp. Paperback, $14.99 Buy it: Amazon Read an excerpt Visit the publisher’s page Brett McCracken is a L.A. based journalist. His previous book, Hipster Christianity, I’ve interacted with elsewhere. Here he tackles this big issues 20-somethings wrestle with…

  • What The Old Testament Authors Really Cared About

    Jason S. DeRouchie ed., What The Old Testament Authors Really Cared About: A Survey of Jesus’ Bible. Grand Rapids: Kregel, October 2013. 496 pp. Hardcover, $45.99. Buy it: Amazon Read an excerpt Visit the publisher’s page Jason S. DeRouchie is associate professor of Old Testament at Bethlehem College and Seminary. In addition to this volume, he…

  • Book Review Page Update

    If you’re new to the blog, welcome! Depending on when you started reading, you may have missed several of the books I’ve reviewed of the summer. Since it was roughly 2 a week, that’s a lot of books that weren’t reflected on my book reviews page. I’ve now updated it, and here’s the rundown of…