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Paul David Tripp, Dangerous Calling:Confronting the Unique Challenges of Pastoral Leadership. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2015, PB, 240pp. I have been the Pastor of the same congregation for 12 years. I enjoy it. I mean, I really enjoy it. There is no other job I would want to do. It has been a...

Jonathan Rogers, The Terrible Speed of Mercy : A Spiritual Biography of Flannery O'Connor. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2012. xviii+186, $15.99. Given Flannery O'Connor's hallowed standing in American Literature and the undeniable influence she continues to have on artists and theologians of all...

Stephen M. Hildebrand, Basil of Caesarea . Foundations of Theological Exegesis and Christian Spirituality. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2014. 224 pp. $24.99 J.I. Packer once likened the English Puritans to the giant redwood trees of California, that not only astound by their soaring height and...

G.K. Beale and Benjamin Gladd. Hidden But Now Revealed: A Biblical Theology of Mystery . Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 2014. 392 pp. $27.00. The current interest in Christ-centered preaching owes many of its finer products to the redemptive historical method and this method's constitutive...

Hans Schwarz, The Human Being: A Theological Anthropology . Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2013. $24.99 After years of relative neglect, theological anthropology has been on the rise lately. In the last few years alone, we've seen books like Michael Welker's The Depth of the Human Person (Eerdmans, 2014...

Christena Cleveland, Disunity in Christ: Uncovering the Hidden Forces that Keep Us Apart . Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 2013. $13.99/£9.99 Christena Cleveland's Disunity in Christ is an important read for those who--in an increasingly pluralistic yet no less segregated society--call church their home...

Tony Reinke, Newton on the Christian Life: To Live Is Christ. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2015. $14.79 I imagine many will think this book tells an important yet familiar tale of a repentant man who writes an enduring, widely appealing hymn. Though I was acquainted with Tony Reinke's writing (see the...

John Coffey, Exodus and Liberation: Deliverance Politics from John Calvin to Martin Luther King Jr . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. $34.99/£24.99 On Saturday March 10, 2015, President Barack Obama spoke on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Selma civil rights march over the Edmund...

Lila is a swelling tide. The prose and themes slowly overwhelm, lifting and submerging the reader on grace's stormy sea. For Lila, the novel's namesake, flailing in this tide comes naturally. As you lay in your blood, I said to you, "Live." My own fascination with Lila , and with Robinson, arises...

Michael J.S. Bruno. Political Augustinianism: Modern Interpretations of Augustine's Political Thought . Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2014. 224pp. $28.99/£24.99 We should not lose sight of how remarkable it is that a fifth-century north African bishop continues to be read in political theory courses...