Review: Reframing the Soul
I love words. I’ve always loved words. In first grade my school hosted a poetry contest. We all wrote poems and made artwork to go with…
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Review: The Problem of God
The secularization of North America seems to attract ever-increasing attention from the media, sociologists and students of culture (both Christian and not). For many Americans,…
Can we reach a culture that considers our faith irrelevant?
‘People perceive Christians as irrelevant and extreme.” This is the startling assertion by Christian researchers David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons in “Good Faith.” Sharing results…
Review: Author urges believers to fight for Jesus until ‘The Last Arrow’
Life is a battlefield, and you’ve got a quiver of arrows. That’s the central analogy of “The Last Arrow: Save Nothing for the Next Life.”…
Review: A Macedonian call to China: Volume chronicles a not-so-wasted effort
Passages like the Great Commission in Matthew and the Macedonian call in Acts have long compelled Churches of Christ to conduct missions. When historians capture…
‘Grieving a suicide’ will help survivors heal, ministers help
Suicide devastates lives — the lives of families, friends and ministry providers. And many ministers, myself included, are confronted with the event of a suicide…
Dramatic stories of conversion
What does it truly mean to love my neighbor? That is the question Kendra Broekhuis asks in “Here Goes Nothing: An Introvert’s Reckless Attempt to…
Because creation matters to God, it should matter to us, authors write
Christians often are reluctant to talk about climate change, even as we are reminded daily of the groaning of creation. Scripture, however, is clear about…
Hicks provides a painful, but powerful, return to ‘The Shack’
In “Meeting God at the Shack: A Journey Into Spiritual Recovery,” John Mark Hicks invites us to look at ourselves honestly and to seek God…
