Brent Laytham

Saving Words

“What’s not to like about Saving Words? Richter and Pagano have drawn together Anglicanism’s best to draw out our best—our best words. . . . Each essayist, weaving personal anecdote with reflective wisdom, aims to ‘save some word or phrase from disuse or misuse.’ Not for the word’s own sake, but for God’s and for ours. Here are twenty words worth saving, eloquently expounded as theology experienced, finally valuable because God is using them to save us.”

Telling God's Story

Preaching & Worship

“If you think preaching should focus on getting individuals to heaven and guiding America (back) to greatness, then do not read this book. If you think that Christians make the church and that its purpose is to help them, then run away from this book. For here John Wright proclaims the biblical gospel that God intends the church 'as the visible body of Christ in the world.' Setting the biblical story over against cultural stories that have falsified the gospel and emaciated preaching, Wright calls for a homiletic reformation that preaches the congregation into the biblical story. Wright is right about what is wrong with our preaching and our churches, and his corrective guidance in this book is the cure we need. Attentive to rhetoric, filled with pastoral insight and sermonic exemplifications, this book is essential assistance in becoming 'the rhetorical embodiment of the biblical story'--that is, the church.”

Theology and Culture

Theology

“Long's book is filled with deep insight and strategic provocation, both of which ought to push the theology and culture conversation beyond its unexamined truisms and self-satisfied dogmas. This is a book for people who take their theology without cream or sugar.”