Category: Music, Art & Literature

  • Quick Book Review: Smooth Stones by Joe Coffey

    Last weekend, I enjoyed a quick read of Smooth Stones: Brining Down the Giant Questions of Apologetics, by Joe Coffey,  Cruciform Press’s featured book for June. Smooth Stones tackles six of the biggest questions usually held by skeptics of the faith, and that young believers often struggle with: Is There a God? Does Science Disprove…

  • Must Read Books for New Christians

    Must Read Books for New Christians

    I have been wanting to compile a list of “must read” books for new Christians to read (or for Christians new to reading). What the list should look like This list would need to be very accessible, both in the language used, and in wide availability, rock solid theologically, varied in topic and genre, engaging,…

  • Review: Servanthood as Worship by Nate Palmer

    Ever since God saved me, I have desired to serve him with my whole life. For the first several years of my Christian walk I had assumed (and was probably taught) that the highest possible manifestation of that desire was to climb through the ranks of leadership in the church. The progression works something like…

  • “But God…” by Casey Lute

    Cruciform Press was kind enough to send me an advance copy of “But God…” by Casey Lute. It came in the mail today and I’m very excited to read it. A book title that contains my favorite two words in the whole Bible by a publisher that puts out consistently solid material, how bad can…

  • Unintended Consequences of Digital vs. Paper Books in Research

    I love ebooks. The functionality of full text search, copy/paste/highlight/etc, social sharing, auto-generated highlights indexes, the space savings, all work together to make it a functionally superior format for reading an individual book, but I noticed something important last night while doing some research for a paper.