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Book Review: Mere Believers

November 27, 2015 by Bob Trube No Comments

Can individuals seeking to live faithfully to their calling change history? These profiles of eight British believers demonstrate that “mere believers” can indeed have a transformative influence in matters both of the heart and of the intellect.

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Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion Tagged With: Book Review, dorothy l. sayers, Faith and Calling, g. k. chesterton, Great Britain, Hannah More, history, Marc Baer, Mere Believers, Mere Believers: How Eight Faithful Lives Changed the Course of History?, Olaudah Equiano, Oswald and Biddy Chambers, Selina Hastings, William Wilberforce

Book Review: Changing Signs of Truth

November 12, 2013 by Bob Trube No Comments

Life on the edge of the coin. That is Crystal L. Downing‘s image for the communicative task properly understood in Changing Signs of Truth: A Christian Introduction to the Semiotics of Communication (InterVarsity Press, 2012). We live in the tension (or on the edge) between that which we want to communicate and the one with whom […]

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Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion, Christ and the Academy Tagged With: Changing Signs of Truth: A Christian Introduction to the Semiotics of Communication, Christian truth, communication, Crystal L. Downing, dorothy l. sayers, intervarsity press, post-modern, semiotics, signs

Best Christian Book of All Time: Early Nominations

March 5, 2013 by Micheal Hickerson No Comments

The nominations are coming in for our Best Christian Book of All Time Tournament (BCBATT for short). So far, more than 140 different books have been nominated, ranging from the 2nd to the 21st centuries. Here are a few of the books receiving multiple nominations: Augustine, Confessions Augustine, City of God Dietrich Bonhoeffer. The Cost […]

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Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion, Christ and the Academy Tagged With: Augustine, books, Brother Lawrence, C. S. Lewis, dante, dietrich bonhoeffer, dorothy l. sayers, g. k. chesterton, J.I. Packer, john bunyan, John Calvin, john stott, Thomas a Kempis

Quote: Simone Weil on Effort, Attention, and Unexpected Results

July 6, 2011 by Hannah Eagleson 2 Comments

Hannah Eagleson’s first guest blog series, which she wrote before joining ESN as a writer/editor in 2014. At the time Hannah was a musician, writer, and recent PhD recipient living in central Pennsylvania. The Summer Quote Series offers brief reflections on quotes that she found helpful when thinking about her academic work. Thank you, Hannah!  I’ve always loved Dorothy L. […]

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Quotes, Summer Quotations Series Tagged With: attention, Book recommendations, dorothy l. sayers, end of education, graduate school, purpose of education, simone weil, spiritual formation

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