Category Archives: Book Reviews

Reflection on Judy Blume, Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret (1970)

Posted on August 25, 2020 by

Time Magazine Top 100 Novels Book 7: Judy Blume, Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret (1970) This is a series of reflections reading through Time Magazine’s top 100 novels as selected by Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo published since … Continue reading →

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Perspectives from the Past-Reflections from Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Writings in 1932-33

Posted on May 10, 2019 by

One of the gifts of reading more deeply into the lives and experiences of people in the past is the perspectives they can give us into our own time. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a Lutheran pastor during the critical time leading … Continue reading →

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Anfechtung

Posted on August 15, 2018 by

Roland H. Bainton’s classic, Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther, is one of several Luther biographies I have on my shelf and it is a classic work, even if it is a little dry to read. I want … Continue reading →

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Theological Influence: Miroslav Volf

Posted on February 4, 2017 by

One of the projects I have decided to do is to catalog in some small way the influence of some of the major thinkers who have influenced my growth as both a Christian, a pastor and as an individual as … Continue reading →

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Review of Reading Backwards by Richard B. Hays

Posted on March 25, 2015 by

READING BACKWARDS: FIGURAL CHRISTOLOGY AND THE FOURFOLD GOSPEL WITNESS, by Richard B. Hays. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2014. 155pp $34.95 Richard B. Hays began his work of examining how the earliest followers of Jesus were interpreters of scriptures in … Continue reading →

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Review of David Lose’s Preaching at the Crossroads

Posted on December 11, 2014 by

PREACHING AT THE CROSSROADS HOW THE WORLD AND OUR PREACHING IS CHANGING, by David J. Lose. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2013. Pp.112. (paperback) Postmodernity, Secularism and Pluralism are three topics often discussed in relation to understanding the changes that have taken … Continue reading →

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Review of 1 Kings: Torn in Two by Alex Israel

Posted on March 5, 2014 by

1 Kings: Torn in Two, by Alex Israel. Jerusalem: Maggid Books, 2013. Pp 350. $29.95 (Hardcover) 1 Kings is the second volume in the Maggid Studies in Tanakh series, and both works have proven to be clear written and insightful … Continue reading →

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Review of Jeremiah: The Fate of A Prophet by Binyamin Lau

Posted on August 28, 2013 by

JEREMIAH: THE FATE OF A PROPHET, by Binyamin Lau. Translated by Sara Daniel. Jerusalem: Maggid Books, 2013. Pp.230.  $24.95 (hardcover) The book of Jeremiah is one of the most challenging to approach in all of scriptures due to its enigmatic … Continue reading →

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