True Love vs. Counterfeits
05. March 2024
Love is a hotly contested topic in our culture. From definition debates to Scripture taken out of context to gender ideology, confusion reigns ...
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RP Author Offers Next Book in Boys’ Series
10. January 2024
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 ...
Review of 2023 Books
22. November 2023
Sabbath keeping has become unpopular. For some, the fourth commandment can conjure up images of boredom or sitting in church all day. Rhode Island ...
Leaders, the Good and the Bad
26. July 2023
“Spiritual abuse is when a spiritual leader…wields his position of spiritual authority in such a way that he manipulates, domineers, bullies, and ...
Master or Mastered?
22. May 2023
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World Cal Newport | Penguin Random House, 2019, 304 pp., $28 | Reviewed by Mark Loughridge I ...
Book Reviews March 2023
13. March 2023
“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 ...
Book Reviews November 2022
11. November 2022
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 ...
Building and Cultivating
18. July 2022
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 ...
Beyond White Culture and Indian Culture, a Gospel Way
11. January 2022
Historians sometimes underestimate missionaries or ignore their contributions to social justice and the advancement of Christ’s kingdom. That is the ...
Living for Christ’s Kingdom
11. January 2022
James Eglinton has written a very timely biography of Herman Bavinck, 100 years after his death. An outstanding teacher of theology in Holland, ...
New Books for the New Year
03. January 2022
Ellen Vaughn has written an excellent biography about Elisabeth Elliot in nearly 300 pages, but I think Elliot would have shunned the title, Becoming ...
Need a New Reading List?
19. July 2021
Portraits of Christ is a wonderfully helpful collection of meditations, nourishing the soul and enriching the mind. For many years, Keddie and Whitla ...
Book Reviews
05. March 2021
Why does our modern military have combat helicopters named for the Comanche, Apache, and Kiowa? Who were they to be thus honored? They ...
Book Reviews
18. November 2020
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 ...
Book Reviews
13. July 2020
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 ...
Book Reviews
18. March 2020
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 ...
Book Reviews
02. December 2019
The last half of the 19th Century saw the church experience significant changes as it dealt with the aftermath of the Second Great Awakening, ...
Beyond Self-Help Guides
26. July 2019
Author, blogger, and editor Christina Fox draws heavily from themes in Tim Keller’s Counterfeit Gods and applies them specifically to the arena of ...
Give Your Phone a Vacation
23. May 2019
Technologies like the smartphone have utterly changed daily life over the past two decades. How can we develop wisdom and courage when life changes so ...
Book Reviews
14. November 2018
It is good to journey through the Psalms! This book, written by the president of Asbury Theological Seminary and his wife, reminds us of this truth as ...