Books
Books for a Summer Season — Some Recommended Reading
Serious readers tend to read by season. A worthy book is ripe for the reading in any season, but winter seems to privilege the weightier...Read this essay →
The Briefing 05-16-13
1. Controversies embroil President Obama and threaten his agenda Controversies Threaten President's Agenda, Wall Street Journal (Peter Nicholas and Janet Hook) A Brief History of...
- Assisted Suicide
- Audio
- E-books
- Fifty Shades of Grey
- gay marriage
- IRS
- Minnesota
- Obama
- Same-Sex Marriage
- Taxes
- Vermont
Rest in Print, Britannica: An Elegy for an Encyclopedia
And then they were no more. Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. announced Tuesday that it would no longer offer its venerable reference set in a printed edition....Read this essay →
Total Capitulation: The Evangelical Surrender of Truth
Evangelical Christians will either stand upon the authority and total truthfulness of the Bible, or we will inevitably capitulate to the secular worldview.Read this essay →
A New Third Way? Reformist Evangelicals and the Evangelical Future
Who is and is not an evangelical? With whom should evangelicals cooperate in gospel efforts, and with whom not? Which theological expressions are truly evangelical,...Read this essay →
What Makes Evangelicalism Evangelical? A New Book Joins the Argument
The evangelical movement in America emerged in the twentieth century as conservative Protestants sought to perpetuate an intentional continuity with biblical Christianity. While the roots...Read this essay →
The Trial that Still Must Come — The Death of Osama bin Laden and the Limits of Human Justice
As is always the case, we are left with a sense that a higher court is still needed. Christians know that Osama bin Laden escaped…Read this essay →
The Only Game in Town? Richard Dawkins and the Limits of Reason
Dawkins really believes (or at least really claims) that those who disagree with him are insane, deluded, intellectually perverse, and unintelligent.Read this essay →
The Marketplace of Ideas — Why Bookstores Matter
Being in a bookstore helps me to think. I find that my mind makes connections between authors and books and ideas as I walk along…Read this essay →
The Knowledge of the Self-Revealing God: Starting Point for the Christian Worldview
The Christian worldview is structured, first of all, by the revealed knowledge of God. There is no other starting point for an authentic Christian worldview—and…Read this essay →
Bankruptcy in the Cathedral
It turns out that Robert Schuller offers the best analysis of this crisis with his own words. “No church has a money problem; churches only…Read this essay →
On Getting Boys to Read
There is ample documentation to prove that boys are falling behind in reading skills at virtually every age level. In many cases, boys are semi-literate...
The Survival of the Book — A Word from James Billington
James H. Billington, the nation's Librarian of Congress, writes in today's edition of The Washington Post about the survival of books. The occasion is the...
