Books

Title: Humble CalvinismAuthor: J.A. MeddersPublisher: The Good Book CompanyPublishing Date: March 1, 2019Pages: 128 pages (Paperback)ISBN: 978-1784983727 Collin Hansen describes the popular resurgence of Calvinist doctrine in the first decade of the twentieth century in three words: young, restless, and Reformed. “The New Calvinism,” identified at the time with leaders like…

Title: How to Survive the Apocalypse: Zombies, Cylons, Faith, and Politics at the End of the WorldAuthor: Robert Joustra and Alissa WilkinsonPublisher: EerdmansPublish Date: May 7, 2016Paperback: 208 pagesISBN: 978-0802872715 September 23, 2017, has come and gone, and we are still here. This despite the recent well-publicized yet widely…

I read about 70 books this year, including a little over 50 new books. Most of the new books were non-fiction (for my PhD studies), while the majority of my re-reads were fiction (e.g. Narnia, LOTR, Harry Potter, Pride and Prejudice, the Brothers Karamazov). After a…

The subtitle of Tanya Luhrmann's When God Talks Back describes the book as an attempt to understand "the American Evangelical Relationship with God". Luhrmann's focus on "relationship with God" means that she is not trying to understand evangelicalism as a social-political movement or theological system,…