Fool's Talk: Recovering the Art of Christian Persuasion, Os Guinness. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2015. Summary: Guinness argues for the recovery of the lost art of persuasion that combines good apologetic work with evangelism and is aware of the many people Christians address who are not open to their message. … [Read more...] about Book Review: Fool’s Talk, by Os Guinness
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Book Review: Neither Complementarian nor Egalitarian, by Michelle Lee-Barnewall
Neither Complementarian nor Egalitarian: A Kingdom Corrective to the Evangelical Gender Debate, Michelle Lee-Barnewall. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2016. Summary: Argues on the basis of the biblical texts for a reframing of the discussion of the relationship of men and women from one of power versus equality to one that focuses on the elements in the biblical texts around reversal, inclusion, unity and service. … [Read more...] about Book Review: Neither Complementarian nor Egalitarian, by Michelle Lee-Barnewall
Book Review: Reading for the Common Good, by C. Christopher Smith
Reading for the Common Good: How Books Help Our Churches and Neighborhoods Flourish, C. Christopher Smith. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2016. Summary: Explores how the communal practice of reading in congregations fosters a learning community and shared social imagination the results in clearer congregational identity, sense of mission in one's setting, and wider engagement with the environment, economics, and political order. … [Read more...] about Book Review: Reading for the Common Good, by C. Christopher Smith
Returning to Mapping Your Academic Career
Editor's Note: In Fall 2015, Matthew Boedy (an assistant professor of rhetoric and composition at the University of North Georgia) wrote an excellent review of the new InterVarsity Press release. To encourage those on the academic pathway to give Mapping Your Academic Career: Charting the Course of a Professor's Life a read, I refer you to Boedy's earlier review and offer you an additional one by Bob Trube*. May God bless you as you take next steps on the academic pathway. Please continue to forward us comments, … [Read more...] about Returning to Mapping Your Academic Career
Book Review: In The Beginning, GOD, by Marva J. Dawn
In The Beginning, GOD: Creation, Culture, and the Spiritual Life, Marva J. Dawn. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2009. Summary: A series of reflections on the texts of Genesis 1-3 focused not on questions of beginnings and the controversies that surround these chapters but on what they show us of God and how this may lead us into worship. … [Read more...] about Book Review: In The Beginning, GOD, by Marva J. Dawn