Book Reviews November 2024
Empowered Witness: Politics, Culture, and the Spiritual Mission of the Church Dr. Alan D. Strange | Crossway, 2024, 149 pages, $17.99 | Reviewed by ...
Empowered Witness: Politics, Culture, and the Spiritual Mission of the Church Dr. Alan D. Strange | Crossway, 2024, 149 pages, $17.99 | Reviewed by ...
A Living Faith: A Devotional Journey through James Stanley Gale | Reformation Heritage Books, 2023, 96 pages, $12 | Reviewed by Meg Spear Written by ...
Love is a hotly contested topic in our culture. From definition debates to Scripture taken out of context to gender ideology, confusion reigns ...
Bob Hemphill has good memories of growing up in Beaver Falls, Pa., in the 1950s and 1960s. Those memories will come back for Geneva alumni if they ...
Sabbath keeping has become unpopular. For some, the fourth commandment can conjure up images of boredom or sitting in church all day. Rhode Island ...
“Spiritual abuse is when a spiritual leader…wields his position of spiritual authority in such a way that he manipulates, domineers, bullies, and ...
Mark Loughridge | May/June 2023 Issue
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World Cal Newport | Penguin Random House, 2019, 304 pp., $28 | Reviewed by Mark Loughridge I ...
“I wrote this book partly for my own sake,” writes Rebecca McLaughlin. “Despite having been a Christian for as long as I can remember and having ...
As an admissions intern at Geneva College years ago, I gave tours to prospective students. Part of my spiel always involved the school’s staunch ...
This children’s survey of the Book of Psalms is full of surprises and delights. Its structure, visuals, tone, and content are unusual and well ...
Russ Pulliam | January/February 2022 Issue
Historians sometimes underestimate missionaries or ignore their contributions to social justice and the advancement of Christ’s kingdom. That is the ...
Russ Pulliam | January/February 2022 Issue
James Eglinton has written a very timely biography of Herman Bavinck, 100 years after his death. An outstanding teacher of theology in Holland, ...
Ellen Vaughn has written an excellent biography about Elisabeth Elliot in nearly 300 pages, but I think Elliot would have shunned the title, Becoming ...
Portraits of Christ is a wonderfully helpful collection of meditations, nourishing the soul and enriching the mind. For many years, Keddie and Whitla ...
Why does our modern military have combat helicopters named for the Comanche, Apache, and Kiowa? Who were they to be thus honored? They ...
In this sequel to his best-selling Growing Up Amish, Ira Wagler unfolds his journey of faith in Christ after leaving the Amish church. He opens his ...
On the Road with Saint Augustine issues two warnings to the would-be reader, one on the back cover and one on the front. On the back cover, author ...
In the first chapter of his debut book, Rut Etheridge III begins with an intriguing interaction between ideas from cultural icons such as Bob Dylan ...
The last half of the 19th Century saw the church experience significant changes as it dealt with the aftermath of the Second Great Awakening, ...
Author, blogger, and editor Christina Fox draws heavily from themes in Tim Keller’s Counterfeit Gods and applies them specifically to the arena of ...
The only congregation of the RPCNA in the state of Wyoming is in Laramie, a small city sprawled across a broad valley along Interstate 80 where the ...
Though unfamiliar to some, since at least Augustine it’s commonplace to speak of man’s fourfold state: the state of innocency, the state of ...
Having grown up in the midst of war-torn Iran and in a strictly Muslim family, at age nine Naghmeh Panahi nonetheless heard the Word of God and ...
I recently learned that quite a few people inquire with the RP Witness for practical suggestions on how congregations can find encouragement for ...