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January 2026

January 20, 2026
My 20+ year project is to read through all of the Schaff series of church...
January 16, 2026
Once upon a time the Evangelical world was sharply divided between Calvinists and, well, not...
January 13, 2026
Market saturation is a real thing, and if anything in the Evangelical world is moving...
January 09, 2026
I cheerfully admit to some delighted confusion in Crossway's release of the works of John...
January 06, 2026
Look, I fully admit that teaching theology to kids under the age of three is...

December 2025

December 30, 2025
Once again it's time for a quick recap of this year's reads. As in past...
December 23, 2025
On your "to-read-someday" list should be Philip Schaff's 8-volume history of the church. Not least...
December 19, 2025
I am wrapping up 2025 in part by listening to Andrew Chaikin's A Man on the...
December 16, 2025
Are there really enough movies about the Grinch to even bother ranking them? Well, there's...
December 12, 2025
Four years ago I posted a review of every Country Music Christmas album ever. Okay,...
December 09, 2025
I've said on here before that the Inklings are having a moment. Yet another example...
December 05, 2025
Over at GQ, Josiah Gogarty has a delightful little reflection on the music of A Charlie...
December 02, 2025
The Inklings and their generation are having a moment in the Evangelical world. Twenty years...

November 2025

November 07, 2025
As Evangelicals continue the (entirely right) process of "getting high", a recent book nudging that...

October 2025

October 21, 2025
Board books are both hard and easy to write (I assume--never having written one myself)....

September 2025

September 19, 2025
How do you grow as a believer? Do you think that you'll grow better in...
September 16, 2025
Vampires came of age a few years after I did with the publication of Twilight, and...
September 12, 2025
Years ago and early in his ministry at Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, DC,...

August 2025

August 19, 2025
Crossway's series of theologians on the Christian life (many of which are reviewed here) continues...
August 15, 2025
I'm still not committing to blogging through all of Miles Smith's recent(ish) book Religion &...
August 08, 2025
I'm reading through Miles Smith's recent(ish) book Religion & Republic: Christian America from the Founding to...

July 2025

July 25, 2025
Nearly thirty years later than most people, I finally got around to reading J.D. Salinger's The...
July 22, 2025
What's wrong with America today? There are a lot of answers to that question, but...
July 18, 2025
We all know that we're addicted to technology. At this point, it's not even really...
July 14, 2025
John MacArthur has gone to be with the Lord. With him, passes one of the...
July 11, 2025
In a moment of nostalgia inspired by it being free to stream on Prime (with...
July 08, 2025
Josh Malerman's recent book Incidents Around the House is an interesting one for a lot of reasons....
July 04, 2025
Okay, maybe you won't be reading all of these books today. (If it weren't for ebooks you...
July 01, 2025
Crossway's "on the Christian life" series continues to be excellent with the addition of Drew...

June 2025

June 27, 2025
This is the final part of a series on the cultural moment of horror  I've...
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