Author’s Note: I wrote this short essay for my 2010 book, Besides the Bible: 100 Books that Have, Should, or Will Create Christian Culture [IndieBound]. That book was co-authored with my friends Jordan Green and Dan Gibson. The three of us wrote … Read More
Today is the birthday of Wendell Berry, the writer, farmer, and activist from Port Royal, Kentucky. Berry is my favorite author. Only twice in my life have there been authors I loved so much that I wanted to read not … Read More
I read David Fitch’s excellent new book Faithful Presence: Seven Disciplines That Shape the Church for Mission earlier this year, but haven’t had a chance to write much about it yet. I have been thinking a lot about it though in relation … Read More
One of the most talked-about books on the internet this week is Rod Dreher’s The Benedict Option:A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation, which arrived in bookstores on Tuesday. On a practical level, there is much common ground between the … Read More