Book Reviews

“something has happened in the last several years. The joy quotient for most people, even followers of Jesus, has taken a dive.” - Challies

“These classic North-South divisions don’t explain, however, why Christians in the North were bitterly divided among themselves too. …. [the book] shows how these ‘warring religious nationalists’ shaped the North during the Civil War.” - TGC

“Tanenhaus’s massive, authorized biography, which has sharply divided readers. Buckley was a complicated man, and this is a complicated book. Senior Writer Richard Reinsch and Contributing Editor John O. McGinnis offer their takes on this major new publication.” - L&L

“Based on two decades of interviewing skeptics and Christian apologists, Brierley offers an autobiographical account of continued faith in the face of the strongest arguments against Christianity.” - TGC

“Caleb Morell’s A Light on the Hill takes the long view. This history of Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., reminds us that the work is no less God’s work when we’re arguing about pandemic church closures, prohibition, or integration.” - Acton

“In Personhood: The New Civil War over Reproduction, Mary Ziegler… rigorously explains some of the legal implications of fetal personhood in the debate over abortion and suggests that if the Supreme Court did embrace the pro-life movement’s constitutional argument, it might create more complications than pro-life activists expect.” - TGC

“Ortlund consistently makes a convincing case, carefully defining what is at stake, showing a conversance with the magisterial documents under critique, drawing from non-Protestant scholarship and arguing for modest, minimalist claims that are difficult to refute.” - London Lyceum

“A vibe shift is underway…. It’s easy to get excited about some of the cultural shifts. But it’s important to appreciate how far we’ve strayed from anything resembling traditional faith or values. It’ll take a vast shift to reverse these decades-old trends, which now have deep roots in contemporary culture.” - TGC

“David Hein’s Teaching the Virtues…. is intended as a primer for parents and teachers at these private schools and approaches its topic not as a treatise on either virtue or teaching but as one on teaching virtue, an impulse not without ambition, for philosophers have long wondered whether virtue can be taught.” - Acton

Mark Ward on the book 40 Questions About Bible Translation