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Karen Swallow Prior, The Evangelical Imagination. How Stories, Images and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis (affiliate link). Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2023. 289 pages.
Karen Prior is a...
Once again Easter, with its Good Friday services, resurrection sermons, and choir specials, has come and gone. Without the enormous buildup of seasons like Christmas or Thanksgiving, it tends to creep up on us and pass quickly....
Seneca: Letters from a Stoic (affiliate link). (New York: Penguin Classics, 1969; 2014 edition). 309 pages.
Every year I try to read some classic literature. This book qualifies. Lucius...
As I age, aches and pains are becoming an increasingly prominent concern. Growing old isn’t for sissies! Last December, I began experiencing severe back pain that caused numbness in my left leg. I had an MRI done....
Marcus Warner and Jim Wilder, Rare Leadership: 4 Uncommon Habits for Increasing Trust, Joy, and Engagement in the People You Lead (affiliate link). Chicago: Moody Publishers, 2016. 228 pages.
My father, Henry Blackaby, had the deepest and most profound influence on my life of anyone I have ever known (rivaled only by my mother). He modeled for me what it means to be a man of...
David L. Allen and Steve W. Lemke, eds. Calvinism: A Biblical and Theological Critique (affiliate link). Nashville: B and H Academic, 2022. 541 pages.
Each year, I read up...
Richard Sibbes, The Bruised Reed (affiliate link). Carlisle, PA: The Banner of Truth Trust, 1630; reprint ed. 2022. 143 pages.
I enjoy periodically reading from the Puritans. They have...
Julian Bennett, Trajan Optimus Princeps: A Life and Times (affiliate link). New York: Routledge, 1997. 312 pages.
Over the years I have collected biographies on various Roman emperors....
Rebecca McLaughlin, Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World’s Largest Religion (affiliate link). Wheaton, Illinois: Crossway, 2019. 238 pages.
This book was first recommended to me by one...
