By Blair Mirau and ChristianWeek on
Readers who enjoy paradox and tension will enjoy Stanley Hauerwas’ new memoir, although those who don’t many become frustrated with the seeming contradictions. A quote describing Hauerwas’ personality illustrates the point: “[he has] been called energetic and kind, controversial and…Read More→
By Kurt Armstrong and ChristianWeek on
Curiosity is the fictional account of the real-life Mary Anning, the early 19th century amateur paleontologist from Lyme Regis, England, and Henry De la Beche, a member of the scientific establishment who ended up with the credit for many of…Read More→
By Arthur Paul Boers and ChristianWeek on
Is it just me or was heresy once a lot easier to detect and name? Not so long ago, a lot of us suspected the theology of anyone not from our own particular tradition. That point of view suggested heaven…Read More→
By Kurt Armstrong and ChristianWeek on
When I was a kid, I thought it didn’t matter what I threw out the car window or burned in the garbage bin. I knew Jesus was coming back to rapture me away before He burned up this old Earth….Read More→
By Keiralee Friesen and ChristianWeek on
Books on suffering are plenty, from the intimate journals of those who have loved and lost, to scholarly, detached essays on the purpose and meaning of universal affliction. In Scott Cairns’ The End of Suffering, we are given a work…Read More→
By Elfrieda Neufeld Schroeder and ChristianWeek on
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove believes a spiritual need for stability is part of our human nature and that we have largely ignored this in our hyper-mobile culture. “As participants in a mobile culture, our default is to move,” he writes in The…Read More→