Contributor

Book Reviews

Filed under

Book Reviews

S. DormanBook Reviews

Hawthorne's Necrotic Tissue

Hawthorne's 'Scarlet Letter' is pervaded by a fear of hypocrisy and yet some sense in which hypocrisy seems almost unavoidable.

John EhrettBook ReviewsFormation

You Don't Escape to Narnia

The point of the Narnia tales isn't to escape your normal life, but to find something in Narnia that you also must learn to find in 'normal' reality.

Miles SmithBook Reviews

Reading the Exvangelicals

It is almost certainly not coincidental that many exvangelicals have come from syncretic, evangelical charismatic backgrounds.

Nadya WilliamsBook Reviews

Generation Awakened: Inside the Gen Z Revival at Asbury

The story of the Asbury revival is one of the Holy Spirit moving... and also of God's people responding as needed.

Ben FrushBook Reviews

Out of the Shadows, Room to Deepen

Though not without limitations and shortcomings, Goligher's 'How Then Shall We Die?' is an excellent meditation on the goodness of life and dependency.

Jake MeadorBook Reviews

You Should Be Reading Jeffrey Stout

You don't have to choose between power-obsessed progressivism or modernity-hating neo-traditionalism. There are other options.

Jake MeadorWorkBook Reviews

To Praise Ambitious Men

Bahnsen's 'Full-Time' is a welcome and much needed vindication of ambition. But its treatment of work is still narrow and thus quite limited.

Cameron ShafferBook Reviews

Learning from the Exvangelicals

Sarah McCammon's new book 'The Exvangelicals' offers a glimpse into why some have left evangelicalism. But it is too quick to trust in its own judgments.

Daniel K. WilliamsBook Reviews

They Flew?: Making Sense of Levitating Saints

Carlos Eire's book is a worthy consideration of how historians should interpret historical reports of the miraculous.

Matthew LoftusBook ReviewsMental Health

An Insubstantial Book for a Weighty Problem

Abigail Shrier's 'Bad Therapy' is addressing real and substantial problems, but its derisive tone and lack of rigor keeps it from being the book we need.

Matthew SchultzTechnologyBook Reviews

The Limits of Liturgies

If the internet is both pornographically shaped and unavoidable, then there is not a great deal Christians can do to resist its malformative effects.

Jake MeadorBook Reviews

You Are Not Those Who Saw the Harbour Receding: On Matthew Lee Anderson's "Called Into Questions"

Matthew Lee Anderson's book is a call to revel in the delights of existence itself and to recognize the inexhaustibility of the God who calls us to exist.