Category: Reviews and Cultural Comment
In Review: Wonder-Work: Selected Sonnets of Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg
by Mathew Block The name Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg is not well-known among Christians today, but a recent book seeks to change that; Wonder-Work, published by CMU Press in 2023, features a large selection of sonnets by this Lutheran poet, providing English readers a new…
In Review: The Deadly Five
By Ted Giese Set against the rugged backdrop of the Fraser River Gold Rush of 1858, Raymond Maher’s book The Deadly Five tells the story of an unlikely group of men who form a unique bond over two years of prospecting as they, along with…
In Review: 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
Hammers and Nails by Michael Schutz When you’re a hammer, everything is a nail, and Dr. Jordan Peterson is a hammer. He’s become known for smashing through our culture’s penchant for “politically correct” ways of speaking, acting, and even thinking. The University of Toronto professor…
In review: Transformers 4 Age of Extinction
by Ted Giese If someone says the word “transformer” and the first thing that comes to mind is an electrical device in a covered box outside your house quietly transferring energy between two or more circuits, then the knowledge there’s a movie called Transformers 4…
Christianity and the Movies: Free Quest Course begins next month
ONLINE – Discernment, or the ability to distinguish and test things, is held up in Scripture as both a gift of the Holy Spirit and a skill the Christian is encouraged to personally develop. In a culture that is awash in media, the need to…
Reviewing an American Muhammad
by Wesley Hromowyk In his new book The American Muhammad: Joseph Smith, Founder of Mormonism, Alvin J. Schmidt compares the founder of Islam, Muhammad to the founder of Mormonism, Joseph Smith. In the process, he makes a great confession of the Christian faith without ever…
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