Escape From North Korea

JUST FINISHED Escape From North Korea, the untold story of Asia’s Underground Railroad, by Melanie Kirkpatrick. The author, a journalist for The Wall Street Journal, compares the escape routes used by North Koreans in and through China to the underground...

God’s Battalions

Rodney Stark, a Christian social scientist who teaches at Baylor University, recently wrote God’s Battalions, the case for the Crusades, a fascinating read with an alternative view.Like myself, you were probably taught that the “Crusades were the first round of...

Review of “Miraculous Movements”

         JUST FINISHED A NEW BOOK Miraculous Movements, (2012, Thomas Nelson) by Jerry Trousdale. There was much to like about this remarkable book.    It documents the growing numbers of conversions amongst Moslems in Africa. As everyone in the modern world knows,...

Give Them Grace!

          JUDY AND I JUST FINISHED READING Give them Grace a book on parenting by our fellow laborers in the gospel, Elyse Fitzpatrick and her grown daughter, Jessica Thompson.     The book has several strengths. It emphasizes the centrality of the gospel in...

Jonathan Edwards on Beauty

OUR WORLD and all of life, despite its besmirching by sin, is a world of great beauty. In Jonathan Edwards on Edwards on BeautyBeauty, Owen Strachan and Douglas Sweeney have provided a wonderful resource for the non-technical reader, one not familiar with Edwards or...