Gleason’s love for the topic at hand is evident from his analysis of others’ work on Bavinck with his own, as well as the sheer volume of details and topics that he skillfully intertwines to tell the story of one this important Reformed man. Ron Gleason, Herman Bavinck: Pastor, Churchman, Statesman, and Theologian (Phillipsburg: P... Continue Reading

He grew up thinking that God had a political and social agenda, and that if he (Miller) didn’t do his utmost to promote it through his own obedience to the cultural law, he wasn’t a true Christian. When I was nineteen, my former pastor’s wife gave me a book called Blue Like Jazz. I had... Continue Reading

Eberstadt devotes at least a chapter to each group oppressed through liberation: women, men, young adults, and children. Each segment of society, which had been promised freedom from the constraints of forced fertility, has found itself cheated of a devoted husband, a contented wife, an intact family unit, or a young adulthood free from sexual... Continue Reading

G. C. Berkouwer’s book on the providence of God looks at his subject from a post-Second World War perspective and he comments about how difficult it was to speak of providence following the Nazi death camps and the Holocaust. I wonder if there is not a possible book or dissertation that could be written to... Continue Reading

This short book is neither a technical nor detailed work on pastoral theology. Rather, it is the product of a pastor speaking from the depths of his soul in order to describe the driving force behind a long-standing ministry of over 50 years. William Still. The Work of the Pastor. Geanies House, Scotland: Christian Focus... Continue Reading

He was also brutally hard on the morality of his day, having a particular obsession with preaching against ‘sodomy’ – in Renaissance Italy a term which covered all illicit sexual contact between males. Has anyone ever failed to grow a congregation by talking sex from the pulpit? The Frate certainly understood this. He built a... Continue Reading

(Editor’s Note: The book reviewed in this story has stories from two Presbyterian and Reformed Joint Commission chaplains, John Routzhan, PCA Army chaplain and ARP Chris Reeder, ARP USAF Chaplain) John Groth makes a clear distinction between the remains of members of our Armed Forces and their bodies. You could have heard a pin drop... Continue Reading

He was never really able to transcend the class divide in the parish of All Souls, Langham Place… Much as the Anglican Church in the sixties was clearly a theological disaster, he could never leave her – and one suspects his reasons were not simply because she was ‘the best boat to fish from’ (sic)... Continue Reading

The reliability of the biblical account in Genesis may be questioned, they think, but not the latest findings of science. It is the unquestioned authority in the modern world. However, science is an evolving social activity in which the participants are fallible people. Hence, there are no absolutely objective facts with science. The assumption that... Continue Reading

He writes, “by jure divino we mean that the fundamental principles of Apostolic church government have been retained, and are legitimately applied in the circumstances and under the conditions which are peculiar to our own age and country Here is a book every ruling and teaching elder will want to have. I must confess as... Continue Reading