Daniel Taylor

A Recipe for Disaster

Apologetics

“When Christians leave the faith, the church tends to blame either the one departing or the culture—or both. John Marriott suggests that we instead look in the mirror. Without absolving the one departing of ultimate responsibility, he asks the church to consider how it often fails to educate and socialize the young in ways that make faith winsome and believable in the modern context. Well-researched, well-argued, and well-written, this is not only a good book, it is an important one.”

Aqua Planet

Arts & Literature

“These are poems about confluence--of rivers and sea, of sea and shore, of both with man and dog, of father and son, of spirit and Spirit. They are laced with close observation, awe, humility, pleasure, and pondering. If you love where the ocean meets the land (and all the creatures drawn to that meeting), you will value these words of poetic tribute.”

Blessed Unbeliever

Fiction

“If you grew up fundamentalist, as I did, memories of that life—good and bad—will jump out at you from every page of James Hurd’s story of faith lived, faith lost, and faith regained. His protagonist, Sean, travels a familiar route away from God and church, one marked by the common allures and doubts of modern life. His return is made possible by grace and rediscovered love.”

Confronting Old Testament Controversies

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Many books on issues of faith and practice—and what the Bible has to say about both—gladly take on the author’s ideological opponents. Tremper Longman’s book is unique in taking on his friends, both literal and theological. He specifically addresses the arguments of scholars who could be characterized broadly as ‘evangelical’ (though some are fleeing the term) but who are embracing and advocating understandings of the Bible that have been more characteristic of liberal scholars. He defends the Bible’s integrity and truthfulness authoritatively but with a wonderfully irenic spirit and accessible style that should be a model for such exchanges of ideas between people of good will.”

Home Is the Road

“Relax. Set aside your rationalistic insistence on linearity, plain meaning, and predictable connections. You are in the hands of Diane Glancy, writer of excellence in many genres, who will take you on a poetic journey across the landscapes of America--physical and spiritual--accompanied by the Spirit. Enjoy the drive.”

Playing a Part

Fiction

“If you are a fan of the imagination and believe that it creates realities and doesn’t simply make prettier the one we think we’ve got, you may well find this one of the more interesting books you have read for a long time. Just don’t expect to understand everything until the end, and maybe not even then.”

Rediscovering God’s Grand Story

Apologetics

““Rediscovering God’s Grand Story embodies the most powerful, and convincing form of discourse for conveying life-shaping ideas: the testimony. James Roseman is a rare modern example of a once central figure in intellectual history—the amateur scholar. Amateur in the sense of lover and scholar in the sense of one who lives comfortably and discerningly among books and ideas. If you, too, love the same and are looking for help in understanding how the world’s understanding of itself got to where it is today—and why God has been and always will be central to that understanding—this book will be a boon companion.”

The Poems and Hymns of the New Testament

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“"This book teaches us more about poetry, about the Bible, and about how each illuminates the other. Old texts sound new under Phil's poetic hand.”

The Weight of Memory

Fiction

“These Nameless Things is an imaginative, dark, morally complex (and therefore realistic) exploration of the distorting effects of sin, guilt, hatred, and revenge on the human spirit. With a setting seemingly just outside Dante’s hell, Smucker’s novel is something of a blending of the Divine Comedy and The Pilgrim’s Progress, indebted to both but carving out its own path.”

Triptych

History & Biography

“Poetry, says one poet, is where word and world intersect. Triptych, a poet's memoir, is such a place. In finely crafted, incisive language, the work probes the possibilities for meaning and self-acceptance in a world where neither comes easily, especially, perhaps, for a woman and a believer. That the story is sometimes unsettling is simply testimony to its honesty and insight.”