Affirming God’s Image: Addressing the Transgender Question with Science and Scripture, by J. Alan Branch | Review by Rosa Byler
Language of necessity changes and develops as mankind not only fulfills the creation mandate but rediscovers ways to defy God. Today’s verbal explosion includes new gender-related terms that confirm significant and increasing interest in the subject. Although humans have been classified into two genders since Genesis 1, more options (including personal choice) are surfacing all […]
Continue ReadingThree Things John Told Me…
- You may need to hear them too. I hit the road enroute to a business conference a few weeks back; and just before I lost phone service due to a mountainous area, I received a text: “Have you heard that John died this morning?” I was not prepared for this. There were quite a […]
Continue ReadingWhen God’s Children Suffer, by Horatius Bonar | Review by Rosa Byler
The Christian book market has experienced an outpouring of good instructive material in the last few years, due at least in part to such endeavors as the Christian school and home-school movements and the growing interest in biblical counseling. In our enjoyment of the new, let us not forget the old books that qualify as […]
Continue ReadingFight: 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 […]
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