This was my favorite chapter, as Martin traces how this occultist and mystical movement so powerfully entered into American evangelicalism through key figures and books, to the point where we are all affected. She then outlines why this positive thinking movement is in conflict with orthodox Christianity. It raises some good questions about how we... Continue Reading

So how do we win the rat race?  We don’t; we can’t.  Morley is right: it’s time to quit running the rat race and fight consumerism, discontentment, and the never-ending desire for more.  How do we do this?  It will look different in different people’s lives, and Morley talks about different ways later in the... Continue Reading

Despite Sue Ellen Browder’s success as a writer, she was often unhappy. She began to see that much of what she was writing was propaganda for the sexual revolution, and she said her own conscience was becoming wobbly, leading to a point in her life where she had an abortion. Following a conversion to Catholicism... Continue Reading

I’m not an academic. I’m a housewife theologian. But what is the point of the work academics are doing? Is it just to impress one another, keeping their research and learning within the walls of the academy? Will we ever make a difference that way? Particularly when it comes to theology, I would think the... Continue Reading

At the beginning of our nation’s history, many white Christians used racism to justify slavery for numerous reasons, but white Christians were also instrumental in ending slavery as well. Shouldn’t they be given ample credit for it? That Wallis, as a Christian, doesn’t spend more time on that inescapable fact – that his brothers and... Continue Reading

We must not turn the gospel on its head in our preaching–The love of God for us is the reason for the death of Christ, and we must preach Christ to all men, without condition or exception. When Jesus Christ fails to be the center of all that we say from the Bible and the... Continue Reading

Lewis in my opinion is right to warn of some of the self-righteous dangers of an endeavor of group repentance. Often this can be confessing the sins of one’s neighbor, rather than your own sins. In those cases “we” really means “they.” Thus, there must be some reflection on the personal nature of such a... Continue Reading

“My design is, under the divine conduct, to open up unto you the two covenants of works and grace; and that because in the knowledge and right application of them the work of our salvation lies; the first covenant shewing us our lost state, and the second holding forth the remedy in Jesus Christ; the... Continue Reading

Our identity as followers of Christ in being both alternative and parallel to the world is something that is especially important to remember when the Church is hated and persecuted by the world. On the one hand, we may be tempted to flee to our own Christian ghettos in an effort to inappropriately avoid persecution,... Continue Reading

She wants others in her situation, no matter their age, to know that even though they are single, they’re not alone. Anderson devotes a chapter to “grieving singleness” and adjusting for a romantic life and relationships that (so far) haven’t played out as imagined. She also cautions the hopeful not to sabotage the process with... Continue Reading