Category: Book Review / Insight

A speechwriter for Reagan and a consultant for The West Wing? Count me in. I’ve long been fascinated with Peggy Noonan, but on the recommendation of a friend I picked up On Speaking Well: How...

In the last post I told you that I love the final week of the year, because I’m a sucker for everyone’s lists. Especially book lists. While it was hard to narrow down my top...

Long-time readers know my love for British pastor and author Andrew Wilson. His book God of All Things is one of my favorites. He just dropped an incredibly short book specific to the season. It’s...

One of the more enjoyable books I read this year was Andrew Le Peau’s Write Better: A Lifelong Editor on Craft, Art, and Spirituality. Writers: you need this book. People who don’t view yourself as...

If you’ve never served on a church staff or in vocational ministry, you’ll be glad to know that our days are filled with chapel services, Chris Tomlin wafting through the offices (not Chris Tomlin songs,...

I’m going to shoot straight with you: there are plenty of books that I choose to read precisely because (a) I don’t want to and (b) I know I desperately need to. The Common Rule:...

I’ve had Dr. Tim Keller’s Generous Justice: How God’s Grace Makes Us Just on my Kindle for some time, but just recently got around to reading it. And what a tragedy, because “social justice” is...

We all know the definition of a literary classic: a book that everyone has heard of but no one has read. In the case of The Green Letters: Principles of Spiritual Growth by Miles Stanford,...

Ah, summer: the time for intense humidity, biting mosquitos, terrible sunburn, and intentional reading. If you – like me – believe that one of those things are not like the other, then read on. We’ll...