Darkness Is My Only Companion: A Christian Response to Mental Illness
Darkness Is My Only Companion: A Christian Response to Mental Illness. By Kathryn Greene-McCreight. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2006. 176 pp. Paper, $18.99. My interest in Darkness Is My Only Companion was piqued both by the title (from the Good News translation of the final verse of the “darkest” Psalm, number 88), and by […]
Indication of the Way into the Kingdom of Heaven
Indication of the Way into the Kingdom of Heaven. By Saint Innocent of Alaska. Jordanville, NY: Holy Trinity Monastery, 2006. 48 pp. Paper, $6.95. St. Innocent of Alaska (1797-1879) was a Russian Orthodox bishop and missionary to Alaska. This short work was written as a catechetical tool for the natives who lived on the Aleutian […]
God and Stephen Hawking: Whose Design Is It Anyway?
God and Stephen Hawking: Whose Design Is It Anyway? By John C. Lennox. Oxford: Lion Hudson, 2011. 96 pp. Paper, $5.95. In 2010, Stephen Hawking, the famed Cambridge physicist and cultural icon, published a book (coauthored with Leonard Mlodinow) entitled The Grand Design, in which he purported to explain the origin of the universe without […]
Majestic Destiny: Kingdom Hope Is Rising
Majestic Destiny: Kingdom Hope Is Rising. By Curtis H. Tucker. Redmond, OR: Last Chapter Publishing, 2011. 292 pp. Paper, $15.99. The title and subtitle are intriguing, though a bit vague. Is this book about what eternity will be like? About the Millennium? About the Rapture? The title and subtitle leave the reader wondering. The eighteen […]
Truthspeak: The True Meaning of Five Key Christian Words Distorted Through Religious Newspeak
Truthspeak: The True Meaning of Five Key Christian Words Distorted Through Religious Newspeak. By Michael D. Halsey. Milwaukee, WI: Grace Gospel Press, 2010. 106 pp. Paper, $8.95. In Truthspeak, Michael D. Halsey aims to rescue the Biblical meaning of certain theological terms from widespread misunderstanding. As he describes the purpose of the book: “I want […]
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy. By Eric Metaxas. Nashville, TN. Thomas Nelson, 2010. 608 pp. Hardcover: $29.99. Dietrich Bonhoeffer (4 February 1906–9 April 1945) was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian, anti-Nazi resistant, and founding member of the Confessing Church. His view of Christianity’s role in the secular world has become very influential. Bonhoeffer became known […]
The Gospel and Water Baptism: Another Look at Acts 2:38, With a New Afterword
A Critique of the Crossless Gospel
A Critique of the Crossless Gospel. By Daniel J. Lash Rome City, IN: Weston Street Bible Church, 2011), 44 pp, free. In his booklet, A Critique of the Crossless Gospel, Daniel Lash addresses what he considers to be some important errors involving GES and the writings of Bob Wilkin in particular. While I found myself […]