I try to read about one book a month that is clearly outside my Evangelical tradition. It has been a little while since I have read much about the Eastern Orthodox church. Most of what I have read about the Orthodox Church has been about prayer, or community or conversion. Journey to the Kingdom: An … Read more
Nick Norelli found my review of The History of the Doctrine of the Trinity and commented, and because of that I found his blog. Norelli writes about and reviews a lot on the trinity. And since I am continuing my reading goal of reading more about the trinity this year I am reading a lot of reviews … Read more
Since I started doing the offsite reviews (I have been trying to do one or two a day) I have started actively searching out good reviewers. I like larger review organizations for non-fiction, but I prefer small blog reviewers for fiction. One of the review blogs I stumbled upon was Starlightbookreviews. They seem to focus … Read more
Most of the time I really look for good reviews of good books. I tend to not post negative offsite reviews because I am trying to help people find good books to read. But this is just funny. Andy Darnell tweeted the link to this yesterday and I had to pass it on. This of … Read more
Christian Smith, Editor of the very fine Englewood Review of Books has an article in the Huffington Post about his desire to focus more on the classics and less on the books of the moment. He has a pretty broad view of classic (anything that is not a book of the moment) but he is focusing … Read more
Challies posted an article about how and why he gives good and bad reviews on his blog and more importantly how he evaluates a work on context of the larger ministry. He is directly responding to criticism of his two recent reviews of books by James McDonald and Mark Driscoll. I often disagree with the … Read more
There are far too many good books to read them all. That is the main point for reviews. It is also important to pay attention to experts in a field when reading specialized books, like sciences or history. Too often popular authors cherry pick data to prove a point, and while more academic scholars may … Read more
The Oxford Handbook of The Trinity is not available for kindle and the hardcover version is $131 used ($145 new, $150 suggested retail). So I probably will not pick it up any time soon. But the review is very positive and I will pay attention to used book stores and look around at my library … Read more
I have one more Best Books of 2012 list that I forgot to share. EmilyReads is a great blog. All of her reviews (usually 3 a week) are in haiku. She used to work in the children’s book publishing world and so many of the reviewed books are children’s or young adult. But since she … Read more
John Wilson, the editor of Books and Culture Magazine is the one that originally introduced me to Andrew Klavan. Klavan has written a number of thriller and mystery books but has concentrated on the Christian book world, especially young adult over the past few years. Bookwi.se has reviewed his Homelanders Series, and two of his … Read more