Fight: A Christian Case for Nonviolence, by Preston Sprinkle | Review by Rosa Byler
“Nonresistance” was one of two long and important-sounding “non-” words heard regularly across the pulpit in my childhood. With World War II fewer than thirty years behind us and military service still a requirement, Anabaptist churches were quite intentional about rehearsing Jesus’ teachings on violence. The ending of the draft in 1973 appeared to diminish […]
Continue ReadingChrist & Culture Revisited, by D.A. Carson | Review by Rosa Byler
Christ & Culture Revisited, by D.A. Carson, is, as the title suggests, a book review in itself. The original Christ & Culture, written by Richard Niebuhr some fifty years ago, presented five Christ-and-culture options that have shaped much of Christian thought about the issues. Carson proposes that it is time to revisit Niebuhr’s conclusions, suggesting […]
Continue ReadingThe Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future *, by Mark Bauerlin | Review by Rosa Byler
(*Or, Don’t Trust Anyone Under Thirty) Human beings seem to receive any new invention with a mixture of delight and apprehension. The automobile, the telegraph, and the printing press have all raised their share of early panic as well as praise for the progress they evince. Further complicating the picture is the tendency of the […]
Continue ReadingCore Values that Matter
Core Values? Yes, we are back on the subject again! There are few things more central to building a healthy company culture than its core values—yet all too often establishing them is peripheral to company leaders’ attention. Our family business was nearly thirty-eight years old when we first began the process of identifying and documenting […]
Continue ReadingSide by Side: Walking with Others in Wisdom and Love, by Edward Welch | Review by Rosa Byler
The biblical counseling movement has accomplished a valuable service to the church in reclaiming counseling from the secular “experts,” equipping and training Christians to exhort one another from God’s Word. However, this has also proved intimidating, making “untrained” people feel inadequate and fearful that would-be helpers are disqualified by their ongoing need of help. Biblical […]
Continue ReadingPeacemaking for Families by Ken Sande with Tom Raabe | Review by Rosa Byler
Ken Sande, a Christian attorney and conference speaker, has spent nearly thirty years studying and practicing the application of Biblical principles to conflict situations. His experiences cover a wider variety of types of conflict than many pastors will encounter in a lifetime, from legal and workplace situations (conflict with unbelievers) to church and family (conflict […]
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