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  • 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

    If you haven’t heard of Jordan Peterson at this point, you have two options. The first is to just punch in his name on YouTube, and probably end up watching this interview. Now, you can simply get his latest book, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos. At the advice of a friend, I…

  • 3 Books by Andy Crouch You Should Read

    One of the most helpful books I read last month was Andy Crouch’s The Tech-Wise Family. It’s a short read, but offers valuable insights into the role technology plays in your life. I found much the same to be true of Crouch’s previous book, Strong and Weak, but as it pertains to leadership. At a…

  • The Soul of Shame: Retelling The Stories We Believe About Ourselves

    We all have a story. One thing all of stories unfortunately have in common is incidents of shame. To one degree or another, shame becomes part of virtually all of our stories. For some, it is not an incidental detail in a larger story but the bulk of the story itself. Along these lines, Curt…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Tim Challies Guide to John Owen’s Mortification of Sin

    Earlier this fall, Tim Challies went through John Owen’s Mortification of Sin, one of three works collected together in Overcoming Sin & Temptation recently updated and published by Crossway. If you missed out, here’s his list of posts: You Must Put Sin to Death Owen says that Christians—the choicest Christians—hate sin and pursue it to its…

  • Exploring Psychology and Christian Faith: An Introductory Guide

    For this past year, I’ve been teaching a psychology elective at the Christian school that employs me. Knowing roughly this time last year I’d be teaching it, I began looking for potential textbooks. Because it is a class that meets just once a week and is for a half credit, a standard college psychology textbook…

  • An Animated Overview of Daniel Pink’s Drive

    Thanks to Matt Perman posting this, you can now watch a 10 minutes animated run-down on Daniel Pink’s book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. It’s a book that is helpful if your job involves working with people, and I regularly return to it for insight. If you don’t have time to read…

  • 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…

  • Bible, Gender, and Sexuality: Reframing The Church’s Debate on Same Sex Relationships

    James V. Brownson, Bible, Gender, and Sexuality: Reframing The Church’s Debate on Same Sex Relationships. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, February, 2013. 312 pp. Paperback, $29.00. Buy it: Amazon Visit the publisher’s page Thanks to Eerdmans for the review copy! James Brownson is the James and Jean Cook Professor of New Testament at Western Theological Seminary, Holland, Michigan. He is also an ordained minister in the Reformed Church…