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Nadya WilliamsBooks

In Praise of Plodders

The happiest people aren't those who have great wealth or power, but those who persist in small, ordinary faithfulness within their communities.

Andrew ArndtBibleBooks

To See the Face of God is to See Mercy

Marilynne Robinson's account of mercy and providence offered in 'Reading Genesis' is a rich feast that will lift your eyes toward the merciful face of God.

S. DormanBooks

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 EhrettBooksFormation

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 SmithBooks

Reading the Exvangelicals

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

Nadya WilliamsBooks

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 FrushBooks

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 MeadorBooks

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 MeadorWorkBooks

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 ShafferBooks

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. WilliamsBooks

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 LoftusBooksMental 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.