Review: The Anxious Generation
Why has an entire generation grown up with such significant issues of anxiety, poor mental health, low social skills, and many other challenges that were seemingly absent only a generation or two ago? That’s...
Review: No Greater Love
This is the first substantial book that seeks to provide a theology of friendship that I have read. In fact, I can’t even think of another one. Perhaps C.S. Lewis’ Four Loves comes closest....
Review: Awaiting the King
The third entry in Smith’s ‘Cultural Liturgies’ series. It’s sat, unread, on my shelf for many years. Not because I didn’t want to read it. Partly because I knew it would be a very...
Review: A War of Loves
“The Unexpected Story Of A Gay Activist Discovering Jesus”. The subtitle of this book hints at the incredible, complex, emotional, arm-wrestle of a read that is to come. David Bennett begins his story about...
Review: 1984
An all-time classic story in a new format. I stumbled upon this new recording from Audible, and thought it was time I explored the depths of 1984. And what a ride it was. Firstly,...
Review: How (Not) to be Secular
There are few books I’ve read more than once. I’ve got more than enough I want to read a first time, I don’t often feel the need to go back to something a second...
Review: Jesus and Gender: Living as Sisters and Brothers in Christ
What do you do when you tire of labels that you feel are misrepresented and therefore poorly understood? You might champion for a new label that you can define yourself. That’s sort of what...
Review: An Impossible Marriage
Why would a same-sex attracted woman marry a man? This is the premise of this part-testimony, part-theology book. And, boy, it’s a good one! Laurie and Matt share their personal journey, and the many...
Review: The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
I have finally read my first Jonathan Haidt book. He’s been simmering in my to-read pile for some time, I think due to a little nervousness as to whether I’d appreciate him as much...
Review: The Ethics of Authenticity
Charles Taylor’s magisterial work, A Secular Age, is something of a generational work that every man and his dog seems to reference. Or, at least, that tells you the kind of books I tend to...