Guest-post and book review of Myron Bradley Penner’s The End of Apologetics: Christian Witness in a Post-Modern Context at Rational Faiths blog. Read more…
Book Reviews
Review: The Simple Living Handbook by Lorilee Lippincott
The Simple Living Handbook: Discover the Joy of a De-Cluttered Life by Lorilee Lippincott [April 2013] This was a book that I enjoyed for the first third or so, and was surprised to find my opinion of it dropping off rapidly after that. So first, allow me to lay out what I liked about the […] Read more…
Review: The Chump Lady Survival Guide to Infidelity
The Chump Lady Survival Guide to Infidelity: How to Regain Your Sanity Once You’ve Been Cheated On by Tracy Schorn [June 2014] It’s been ages since I picked up a book where, upon turning the last page, I found myself asking, “That’s it?!” Not because the book was bad, not because the conclusion was ill-suited […] Read more…
My Review of the 2011 NIV
Isn’t it awesome how I’ve been neglecting this blog for over two months? Or not. Anyhow, my review of the 2011 update of the New International Version was published in the Winter 2011 issue of Priscilla Papers. That article has been made available online as one of CBE’s free articles: “Book Review: 2011 NIV Bible” […] Read more…
Review: Till We Have Faces
Reflections on one of my first Christian literary loves I read a ton of C. S. Lewis in high school: The Space Trilogy, The Great Divorce, Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Problem of Pain, A Grief Observed, The Weight of Glory, and a whole bunch of his shorter essays. At the time I felt […] Read more…
Review: The Mind of the Master Class
The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders’ Worldview by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene D. Genovese [October 2005; reviewed 11-18-2010] It’s been a long time since I posted either a book review or anything that I wrote for a class, so I’m posting in PDF form the review I just […] Read more…
Review: Evangelical Feminism

Evangelical Feminism: A History by Pamela D. H. Cochran [January 2005] The history this book attempts to cover is a fascinating one in terms of the internal struggle within the Protestant world concerning the equality of women in the church and home. It describes the rise of the Evangelical Women’s Caucus (now the Evangelical & […] Read more…