I read all three of these books to my kids, and they're all on sale at Audible for great prices. $10 for the whole series, almost 17 hours of car travel time covered. Our favorite was definitely Ember Falls. The only problem is that you won't get the great pencil...
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Review: Andy Crouch’s The Tech-Wise Family
Andy Crouch is among the first parents to have nurtured children from clearly-too-young-to-have-a-smartphone to now-old-enough, during a time in which smartphones were in fact available for that whole period. It's only been ten years since the iPhone's debut. And in...
Review: 12 Ways Your Phone is Changing You
12 Ways Your Phone is Changing You by Tony Reinke My rating: 5 of 5 stars The best way to summarize this book is probably to let the author do it. In the last twelve chapters, I have warned against twelve corresponding ways in which smartphones are changing us and...
Fantastic Deal on My Favorite Theology Books
John Frame is retiring, and now you can have all six of his best and most important books for $120. Hardbacks. This is killer. I paid much more. Do not miss this deal: $20 a book for some of the best theology books you will ever buy. The Doctrine of the Knowledge of...
Review: Confessions of a Fundamentalist
Confessions of a Fundamentalist by Aaron Dunlop My rating: 3 of 5 stars Some good insights. A gracious perspective. Critical of bad leaders without letting fawning followers of the hook. Thinks carefully through what a healthy doctrinal militancy should look like....
Two Great Books for Two Dollars
I thoroughly enjoyed N.D. Wilson's Notes from the Tilt-A-Whirl and Death By Living. And they're $0.99 each right now on Kindle.
Review: Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President
Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President by Allen C. Guelzo My rating: 5 of 5 stars Nothing less than a tour-de-force. I'm tempted to say that only a religious person—particularly a Christian—could understand this almost certainly unbelieving politician and thinker. Guelzo...
Review: Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work by Matthew B. Crawford My rating: 5 of 5 stars I was utterly taken with this book, first to last. The philosophical portions were elegantly written, insightful, and persuasive. The anecdotal interludes about...
Biblical Worldview: Creation, Fall, Redemption Prints
BJU grad and friend Chris Koelle did an excellent job with the illustrations for the book I authored/edited, Biblical Worldview: Creation, Fall, Redemption. You can buy them as prints at a special discount today only (11/28/16) with free shipping.
Review: A Change of Heart: A Personal and Theological Memoir
A Change of Heart: A Personal and Theological Memoir by Thomas C. Oden My rating: 3 of 5 stars What strongly conservative Christian doesn't thrill to hear a conversion story from theological liberalism—and from an elite academic within that crowd, no less? Thomas...
Can I Smoke Pot? on Back to the Bible Canada
I enjoyed this first of two conversations with Isaac Dagneau of the indoubt podcast. I got to drive up to gloriously beautiful Abbotsford, B.C., to do the interview—only an hour and twenty minutes away from my house. Second one next week.
Review: Golly’s Folly: The Prince Who Wanted It All
Golly's Folly: The Prince Who Wanted It All by Eleazar Ruiz My rating: 4.5 of 5 stars Golly’s Folly is the work of two brothers and the wife of one of those brothers. It is an artful take on several biblical themes, coupled with richly colorful and imaginative...