Book Reviews
My New Year’s Resolution: Be Like Billy Graham
What? Oh, you thought…hahaha! You imagined crusades, dynamic preaching, and conferences with heads of state. No, no. I haven’t visions of preaching to millions nor delusions of grandeur (most of the time). I just read a little book over the Christmas holiday and knew I’d found what I wanted to... »
“The Christmas List”
But the thing is that now that I really do want to make things better, there’s nothing I can do. Maybe this is hell, seeing the truth. Knowing fully the pain and hurt you’ve caused others and knowing there’s no way you can make it better. I’ve stolen their lives and... »
He Wanted a Table
I was so disappointed to discover that Clyde Robert Bulla passed away before I realized what a great childrens’ author he was, and had the chance to contact him. In his autobiographical work (for children, of course, but not unappreciable by adults), A Grain of Wheat, he writes of his very first day... »
John Piper’s View of Manhood and Womanhood: A Response, Part II — Leadership
Part I concluded with this statement: I believe the distinction between masculinity and femininity has to do with something other than leading and receiving, affirming and protecting, nurturing and providing. What I mean by this is that I don’t believe that woman was made to receive leadership/direction from man to a greater extent than... »
Correction to “John Piper’s Views…A Response, Part I”
In John Piper’s Views on Manhood and Womanhood: A Reponse, Part I, I said the following: “Piper’s definitions do not address the ways mature manhood or womanhood might respond in the face of un-worthy behavior on the part of members of the opposite sex. I assume he intends that a woman not affirm, receive, or... »
John Piper’s Views on Manhood and Womanhood: A Reponse, Part I
Manhood and womanhood: What’s the Difference? asks John Piper, and answers in a little book of that title taken from the complementarian compendium/bible, Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, of which it is the opening chapter. I appreciate Piper’s style in this book–amiably straightforward and accessible, yet properly theological. Despite the concise, intelligent... »
Grace and Merit
Francis Beckwith recommends Dallas Willard’s Knowing Christ Today: Why We Can Trust Spiritual Knowledge for its portrayal of “theology as knowledge.” In his review of Willard’s book, Stan Guthrie quotes from a piece Beckwith published in First Things’ On the Square, in which Beckwith gives “an assessment of Notre Dame’s awarding an honorary... »
Dorothy Sayers Speaks
I just love to read and re-read anything by Dorothy Sayers. Take this from “Creed or Chaos?” “If all men are offended because of Christ, let them be offended; but where is the sense of their being offended at something that is not Christ and is nothing like Him? We do Him singularly little honor... »
