Reformation21

Recently I have been reading Jeffery Sheler's Believers: A Journey into Evangelical America . Sheler is Contributing Editor for Religion with U.S. News and World Report . While he would not identify himself as an evangelical, Sheler grew up in an evangelical church of sorts and is sympathetic to...

Justin Taylor commented a while back that evangelicalism is no longer capable of parody, it has become so much a caricature of itself. In the spirit of that comment, I give you "Your Best Life Now--the Game," inspired by Joel Osteen's best-selling book. The box cover features the smiling visage of...

In their 50th anniversary edition Christianity Today published their take on the top 50 books in evangelicalism's last 50 years--those " landmark titles that changed the way we think, talk, witness, worship, and live." Anyone planning to add their #1 book to your Christmas wish list?

Bob Brady -- who serves as Executive Vice President for the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals -- tells me that the Reformation Society in Alaska recently had a very encouraging first meeting. One of the visitors was a high school student who has been planning to become a pilot and hoping to...

In looking through Christianity Today 's list of the most influential evangelical books of the last half century, one can't help but notice the dearth of substantive theology. There are plenty of experiential biographies, lots of "practical" books for family life and church management, but almost...

As Phil has commented, the Christianity Today list of the 50 most important Christian books of the last fifty years shows a decided tilt towards Christian experience over Christian truth. In other words, it depicts a pietistic era spanning a half-century (not to be confused with piety itself,...

Quentin Schultze is an astute commentator on issues in Christianity, technology, and the arts. In a recent issue of the PCA's ByFaith magazine he writes: "Young people witness some of the cheesy video and computer 'art' in worship and see it for what it is is: kitsch. Stock clip art. Old-fashioned...

Not a parody : When was the last time your class saw how "HOT" God's Word is? Open this authentic looking "bible" and begin to share the scripture for the day as real flames are seen coming from your "bible". This full size book comes with a battery operated ignition system. All you supply are the...

I just received today my copy of his latest book, An Essential Guide to Public Speaking: Serving Your Audience with Faith, Skill, and Virtue . Some quotes from the introduction: "...the materials available for learning how to speak publicly have become excessively technical, focusing on skills...

It might be worth our while listing what we might think the fifty most influential books have been for us, don't you think? Let's start listing some and after a while we'll compile a reformation21 wish list! For me, it would have to begin with Lloyd-Jones' expositions on The Sermon on the Mount ...