Andrew Arndt
Arts & Literature
“Good reading ennobles us, gives us the imaginative resources to scale what Rilke called ‘the mountains of the heart.’ Doug Basler knows this. Knows that curious, attentive, deep reading has the power to put us in conversation with our own lives in ways that might bring about what the New Testament calls metanoia—a changing of the mind that changes everything. All Swirling and Weaving is a valuable witness and apprenticeship to this critical skill. Highly recommended.”
Christian Living
“Chasing Wisdom is the book Daniel Grothe was born to write. His life is an ongoing testament to what happens when we refuse our society’s idolatry of adolescence and embrace the kind of wisdom that can only come from those who have walked the path of faithfulness ahead of us. Buy this book. Savor it. And strive to live its message.”
Christian Living
“The Bible is adamant that God loves us; most Christians know this. But many have a difficult time embracing the idea that God not only loves them, he likes them too. They fail to realize that this is, in fact, the heart of the gospel: that God so loved the world that he gave his Son—in the most generous and intimate way imaginable—in order to restore us to a friendship with him. As wise and competent tour guides, Cyd and Geoff Holsclaw take us on a journey through Scripture to help us rediscover the vital and liberating truth that God delights in us, takes joy in our presence, and wants to be with us forever.”
Christian Living
“Robert Snitko has the audacity to believe that eternal life is more than just going to be with Jesus in heaven when we die. He can be this audacious, of course, because he has read and loves the Bible—the Bible which tells us on every page that salvation is not a matter of life after death, but of entering this very moment into the life that has conquered death in the crucifixion and resurrection of the Son of God and the pouring out of the Holy Spirit.”
Christian Living
“What do we do when faith collapses? Acquiesce and walk away? Or deny and double-down? Are those our only options? While it can seem so at times, gratefully, it is not. For there is a better way, one that discerns the work of the Triune God amid the collapse and leads to God's greatest good for our lives: Christlikeness. We need wise guides to help us discover that path and follow it. Catherine McNiel and Jason Hague are just such guides, and I couldn't be more grateful for this work. It'll be on my short list of recommended resources for deconstructing parishioners.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Bri Stensrud writes with theological depth, practical experience, and—above all—humility. Start with Welcome is a gently courageous invitation to become what we are: a people glad to extend welcome because we serve a God who never stops welcoming us.”
Christian Living
“Centuries ago, one of the great luminaries of the Egyptian desert, St. Anthony the Great, gave a simple (and demanding) road map to holiness when he said, ‘Whoever you may be, always have God before your eyes; whatever you do, do it according to the testimony of the holy Scriptures; in whatever place you live, do not easily leave it.’ Human lives require stable contexts in order to flourish, which is why the ancient vow of stability is so important. Sadly, our culture has reversed this ancient wisdom, teaching us to see stability as at least a nuisance and at most a deep danger to the path of self-actualization. To the extent that we believe this, we are unwitting co-conspirators in the diminishment of our lives. It is time and past time that we take back our lives by recovering the ancient wisdom of stability. To do this, we’ll need wise guides schooled in the fine art of stability to help us. Daniel Grothe is one such guide. He is well qualified by training and experience to lead us into the picture painted by the psalmist: ‘That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither—whatever they do prospers’ (Psalm 1:3). Well written and well argued, and packed with brilliant examples (ancient and modern) of what the vow of stability looks like in practice, The Power of Place is a book for our time.”
Christian Living
“At the very center of our faith is constellation of unfathomable mysteries: Good pastors don’t duck or dumb down the mysteries; they don’t reduce Christianity to the merely “practical.” No, they embrace gospel mystery, honor it, and serve as tour guides through its limitless terrain. J.R. Briggs is one of those guides, and The Sacred Overlap is one of those books—challenging, comforting, and inviting in equal measure. Read it and be changed.”
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