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When my friend Lyle stopped by for breakfast recently, he picked up Decoded from my stack of books and asked, “What’s an Alberta farm boy like you doing reading a book about larger-than-life New York hip-hop?” Good question. Truth is,…Read More→
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The verb “essay” means “to attempt,” but the noun “essay” might conjure anxious memories of your Grade 10 English final exam and send you running. Too bad. Fighting the Noonday Devil, a book of essays, is an eclectic, engaging book…Read More→
By R. Wayne Hagerman and ChristianWeek on
At first glance, Love Wins looks like a book which may offer some answers to the age-old topics of heaven and hell. Rob Bell claims his controversial new book is “about the love of God for every single one of…Read More→
By R. Wayne Hagerman and ChristianWeek on
Norman Geisler has taught at the graduate level for more than 50 years, and holds a PhD in philosophy, so when one opens this book, it becomes very clear that he is no lightweight thinker or contributor in the theological…Read More→
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The more time I spend outside the religious looking-glass world of the conservative evangelical subculture, the stranger it starts to appear. Hamilton Cain knows a lot about the abiding strangeness that permeates much of conservative evangelicalism. This Boy’s Faith is…Read More→
By Thomas Guenther and ChristianWeek on
In startling vernacular Tyler Blanski conveys his life as a single man; his worldview portrayed through long conversations with close friends in restaurants and coffee shops. The title, Mud & Poetry, is a good description of what lies between the…Read More→