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A Review of “Happy Lies” by Melissa Dougherty

It ought to be required reading for all Christ-followers.

Written by Chris Elkins | Tuesday, March 25, 2025

This book is designed to do more than scare and alarm us. Dougherty thoughtfully and fully explains a biblically grounded view of self, God, and the world as she unfolds the New Thought menace. And it’s a thought system that impacts more than just random individuals. Entire denominations and subcultures have fallen prey to it.  ... Continue Reading

When Selfishness Becomes Celebrated

How modern culture repackages marital abandonment as radical self-love, with little counter-narrative from religious voices.

Written by Aaron M. Renn | Monday, March 24, 2025

Even in the previous pro-divorce culture, women still felt compelled to give a reason why they were dumping their husbands, something that he had done wrong. This didn’t even have to be especially bad, like an affair. But there had to be some kind of negative behavior or trait of the husband to make a... Continue Reading

Happy Lies – A Review

Happy Lies is brilliant, playful, and delightful.

Written by Keith Walker | Monday, March 24, 2025

This book will have a positive impact for the Church of Jesus Christ. It will educate those who can now be on the look-out for this heresy, and it will help people involved in it (Christian or not) to escape. Like Melissa has said, you’ve probably never heard of it before, but you’ll know it... Continue Reading

Even the Soviet Gulag Couldn’t Keep the Gospel Down

Review ‘Finding God in the Gulag’ by Jeffrey S. Hardy

Written by Amanda Aucoin | Saturday, March 22, 2025

 Are you tempted to stream the Sunday service when you could attend in person? Do you want to skip home group because it’s inconvenient? Let the stories of prisoners who found joy beyond words in discovering just one or two coreligionists in their camp renew your commitment to meet regularly with fellow believers.   Living... Continue Reading

Here Be Dragons: What Christians Need to Know About Romantasy

Diving into explicit fiction reflects a chasing after wind (Eccl. 1:14) as we search for meaning, connection, and love down avenues that will never satisfy.

Written by Kathryn Butler | Tuesday, March 18, 2025

The potential to accidentally stumble into sexually explicit scenes in romantasy is a warning to parents and a risk teenagers actively navigate. In an interview for Reedsy, romantasy author Jennifer L. Armentrout commented, “A lot of romantasy covers look like fantasy books, so new readers may not be aware that they’re reading a fantasy romance,... Continue Reading

The Book That Sparked a Resurgence of Biblical Theology

Review: ‘Biblical Theology’ by Geerhardus Vos.

Written by Ched Spellman | Monday, March 17, 2025

As we navigate the complexities of our own time, Vos’s work reminds us that the Bible isn’t merely a collection of ancient texts. Scripture is living and active. It speaks with authority and clarity to the questions and challenges of every generation. Biblical Theology shows us how to discover the richness of the biblical story... Continue Reading

Everyday Spiritual Warfare

In "The Screwtape Letters," Lewis highlights the real spiritual warfare behind the everyday circumstances of the believer.

Written by Isaac Kwong | Friday, March 7, 2025

Packaged in an interesting and engaging format, The Screwtape Letters is an effective rebuttal of the division of sacred and secular. Wherever we may be in your walk with God, Lewis’ book helps believers to think deeply about their everyday lives, and to spot the spiritual temptations that present themselves in seemingly small decisions.    Everyday Warfare... Continue Reading

Book Review—Un-Cancel Robert E. Lee: An Open Letter to the Trustees of Washington and Lee University

Concerned Alumni Push Back on Washington and Lee University's Erasure of History

Written by Jonathan W. Peters | Thursday, March 6, 2025

Kerr notes that even Dwight D. Eisenhower, “who sent the [101st] Airborne to protect the civil rights of black schoolchildren in Little Rock[,] saw the good in Robert E. Lee and recognized the need for young Americans to ‘strive to emulate his rare qualities’” Therefore, Kerr believes that W&L should restore Lee “to the rightful... Continue Reading

Herbert Marcuse and the Reality of Sin

Herbert Marcuse understands the human problem (“sin”) as the institutionalized repression of sexual desire, his version of “redemption” entails a fundamental challenge, not only to civilization, but to each and every family.

Written by Brad Green | Tuesday, March 4, 2025

There was a notable anecdote at the 2024 Democratic National Convention in the stream of Marcuse’s philosophy: a mobile clinic offering free abortion and free vasectomies. I think it is highly unlikely that the organizers of this initiative were sitting around reading either Eros and Civilization or One-Dimensional Man. But, this particular “practice”—a mobile clinic... Continue Reading

Either/or or Both/And?

I commend the book to you and trust it will help you better understand how to live a life that’s fully pleasing to our God.

Written by Tim Challies | Tuesday, March 4, 2025

In so many ways and so many situations God calls us not to either/or but to both/and. It would, of course, be easier to live by the either/or approach to life. We would choose the attitudes that come most naturally and pursue those at the neglect of the other. But that would be an incomplete... Continue Reading

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