Adults

A Few Recommendations Last year Janie and I put together a post on football books for kids and young adults, Tim Tebow to Justin Tuck: ...

We've already covered a lot of ground on the Fifty Shades trilogy by E. L. James.  We interviewed Tim Challies on the theology of pornography, ...

COMICS: Guy Kryptonite? Why do guys like comics so much?  Especially the super-hero variety?  It's an enigma I spent quite a lot of energy trying ...

Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts On Christian Spirituality, was published in 2003 by Thomas Nelson.  Since then it has become a staple of Christian college ...

The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction, by Alan Jacobs.  Oxford University Press, 2011, 150 pages.  Age/interest: adult. Heads-up: Watch for our interview ...

In the fundamentalist church where I grew up, we never did advent.  I never even understood what the word meant until well into my twenties, ...

John Bunyan was a dissenting pastor of the mid-17th century: “dissenting” meaning that some of his biblical interpretations differed from those of the established (state-supported) ...

They had guessed before that this was an island: clambering among the pink rocks, with the sea on either side, and the crystal heights of ...

Previous posts: Introduction, Part One: Setup, Part Two: Development. Climax?  Isn’t it a little early for that?  Most of us have the idea that the ...

Previous Posts: Introduction Part One: Setup Almost all the main characters have been introduced and the potential conflicts are in place.  Now development: that phase ...

Beginning our first-ever Readalong: here's the Introduction. The action takes place at three fictional locations: Edgetow, a university town similar to Cambridge, but smaller; St. ...

In the summer of 1945, George Orwell wrote a review for the Manchester Evening News, beginning, "On the whole, novels are better when there are ...

A few weeks ago, I wrote about Overdrive software in relation to online library rentals of audiobooks.  Today Sync Audiobooks, a website that offers free ...

“Or what man is there among you who, when his son asks for a loaf, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for ...