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Movie Review

12. September 2018

Making a Christian film always seems to involve compromise—compromising on quality due to a small budget, compromising on theology to cater to a ...

Good to Know

27. July 2018

Every now and again, in my part of rural Kansas, word will get around that some cows have escaped their field and are walking about on well-traveled ...

Book Reviews

09. March 2018

One of my goals every year is to read a few biographies. That is because biographies captivate us. Many of us as adults have been introduced to ...

Book Reviews

15. November 2017

Anyone who knows Ken G. Smith, retired pastor in the RPCNA, knows that the discipleship of men is not simply a book, but a ministry he has given his ...

Book Reviews

07. August 2017

What is most striking about this children’s book is Wildsmith’s vivid, colorful illustrations. Each large, gilded page is teeming with detail, ...

Book Reviews

08. March 2017

What does a Yale-educated lawyer in San Francisco have in common with a hillbilly from Appalachia? Probably not a lot. But in the New York Times ...

Book Reviews

02. December 2016

Religion and Politics In America Frank J. Smith (ed.) | ABC-CLIO, 2016, 968 pp. (2 vol.), $189 This is a mammoth accomplishment from Frank Smith, ...

Reviews

15. July 2016

Knox: The Life and Legacy of Scotland’s Controversial Reformer Trinity Digital Film 2016 | 77 minutes, $17 (buy) $7.50 (rent) The name John Knox ...

Book Reviews

29. February 2016

Knowing Christ | Mark Jones | Banner of Truth, 2015, 250 pp., $13. The simple aim of this book is to give Christians a reason to love Jesus more. In ...

Freud’s Great Category Mistake

16. May 2015

from Chapter 4 of Rosaria Butterfield’s forthcoming book 19th Century Origins and the Power of the History of Ideas The concept of sexual ...

Book Reviews

05. January 2015

Visions of Vocation: Common Grace for the Common Good, by Steven Garber, Inter­Varsity, 2014. Reviewed by Russ Pulliam. Mild-mannered and gentle ...

With Your Children, Make Time for Books

01. August 2014

When our children started their own families, one of them told me not to throw away the books we had read to them in their early years, that we would ...

Book Reviews

01. August 2014

A Puritan Theology: Doctrine for Life, by Joel R. Beeke and Mark Jones, Reformation Heritage Books, 2012. 344 pp. Reviewed by Adam M. Kuehner. Samuel ...

Book Reviews

31. January 2013

Meet the Puritans—With a Guide to Modern Reprints, by Joel R. Beeke and Randall J. Pederson Reformation Heritage, 2006. Hardback, 898 pp., ...

A Pivotal Moment in History

01. November 2012

There are moments in history when an entire civilization moves out of one era and into another. The German philosopher Karl Jasper coined the term ...

Quick to Listen, Slow to Speak

11. April 2012

Aspiring teachers be warned: The first year of teaching brings a world of pain and lessons learned. Perhaps the most important lesson the greenhorn ...

How the Internet Is Changing Our Brains

09. September 2011

The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, by Nicholas Carr, Norton & Company. Reviewed by Pastor Barry York. These pages of the ...

Book Reviews

01. March 2011

What the Bible Teaches About Guidance, Peter Bloomfield, Evangelical Press, 2006. Paperback, 208 pp., $13.99. Reviewed by Pastor David Whitla. One of ...

Reading the Seven Signs of Jesus

01. August 2010

RP author Anthony T. Selvaggio has just had a book published about the Gospel of John. The author and the publisher (Reformation Heritage) have kindly ...