Thomas Cook. In Search of a City: An Autobiographical Perspective on a Remarkable but Controversial Movement. Spring Hill, Tenn.: Discipleship Publications Internationa, 2007. ISBN: 978-1-57782-221-9;240…
Nelson Searcy and Kerrick Thomas. Launch: Starting a New Church from Scratch. Ventura, Calif.: Regal Books, 2006. ISBN: 978-0-8307-4310-0; 223 pages; $12.99. Neil Cole. Organic…
HAROLD SHANK, a preacher, author, biblical scholar and children’s advocate, has been named Reviews editor of The Christian Chronicle. Shank, a professor of Old Testament…
Long ago, Aristotle set out the available means of persuasion: ethos, the character of the persuader; logos, the rational argument; and pathos, emotional appeal. Inquiring…
Calvin R. Stapert. A New Song for an Old World: Musical Thought in the Early Church. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.: Grand Rapids, Mich., 2007.…
Evangelism Stafford North. Evangelizing Your Community: Practical Steps Congregations and Individuals Can Take to Improve Their Evangelistic Outreach. Nashville: 21st Century Christian, 2007. ISBN 978-0-89098-312-6;…
In part, this may be explained by a life and career spent far from the Bible Belt — as a sociology professor in the “liberal…
POLITICSMicheal W. Casey. The Rhetoric of Sir Garfield Todd: Christian Imagination and the Dream of an African Democracy. Waco, Texas: Baylor University, 2008. ISBM 978-1-93279286-7;…
Further, a significant number of our own young people — high school, college — are asking for more traditional hymns and a more formalized (read:…
DEVOTIONAL Briscoe, Jill. Eight Choices that Create a Love that Lasts. West Monroe, La.: Howard/Simon Schuster, 2007. ISBN 1-58229-664-2; 235 pages; $14.99; 800-858-4109 Using the…
