Marvin Olasky
Biography
Marvin Olasky wrote World View and Telling the Truth, and co-wrote The Story of Abortion in America with Leah Savas.
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Christian Living
“Schaeffer was right. Today, we need leaders who can show us how to operate . . . in a way that does not neglect or enshrine politics. We need to discern which behaviors by Christians are helpful . . . and which are not.”
Bible Studies & Devotionals
“Tim Chester's Bible Matters clearly explains why the Bible is not just a part of culture, since it is the record of 'The God Who Speaks.'”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Dr. Thomas Sowell, black and eighty years old, displays no signs of tiredness in writing columns--but when he does, Anthony Bradley shows in Black and Tired why he should be Sowell's successor. Dr. Bradley trumps liberal opponents with facts and wit, and does so within a Christian worldview that allows him to go deeper than conventional economics allows.”
Bulls, Bears and Golden Calves
Work, Money & Leadership
“A well-written, much-needed supplement to introductory economics texts.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“An ideal guide to choosing a translation of the Word that transcends trendy words. In the process, he implicitly indicts those who settle for less.”
Did America Have a Christian Founding?
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“After years of reading overstatements from both sides of the Founding debate, I enjoyed Mark David Hall’s calm and thorough analysis. Mind readers and diary extrapolaters may still fight over questions of sincerity and personal faithfulness, faithfulness, but Hall clearly shows what’s most important: that Christian ideas profoundly influenced the Founders, and through them all of us.”
Dr.
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Thoughtful readers will benefit from Jordan Ballor's essays that carry us from HBO's Deadwood to Christ's death on the cross, explaining in the process our culture and the dirty jobs that need doing.”
Give Me Understanding That I May Live
Christian Living
“We need to avoid two mistakes: seeing our lives as pointless or thinking we’ll win an Oscar for best director. Wheelchair-bound Mark Talbot shows with soaring spirit that we have important roles as supporting actors in a majestic drama of creation, rebellion, suffering, and redemption plotted out by God.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Good News to the Poor is good news for readers thinking through the relationship of evangelism to social action. Tim Chester rightly emphasizes the centrality of the gospel as he compares dependency-creating welfare with dignity-embracing development.”
He Is There and He Is Not Silent
Apologetics
“I read He Is There and He Is Not Silent in 1976 and professed faith in Christ six months later. This was not a coincidence: Francis Schaeffer’s brilliant book helped to change my life when I was twenty-six. This new edition, I pray, will help to change many more lives. I needed to learn, as Schaeffer says, that God exists and speaks, that we all see with presuppositional glasses, that modern explanations of how everything began ‘are usually semantic mysticisms,’ and that man is abnormal but not hopeless. Young and old people today need to learn that too.”
Christian Living
“How Should We Then Live? was produced by a genius who cared about the battle of ideas. It’s also the book I still recommend to students for a quick overview of ‘the rise and decline of Western thought and culture.’ Schaeffer brilliantly takes readers from ancient times through the Renaissance, Reformation, and Enlightenment, then discusses the breakdown in philosophy and science and moves on to art, music, literature, film, and much else besides.”
Christian Living
“How to Argue Like Jesus will help communications professors to teach angelically. Carter and Coleman Christianize Aristotle and add heavenly heuristics that show how Jesus used story and imagery, and how we can go and do likewise.”
Science & Faith
“Darwinians fired away throughout 2009, the 150th anniversary of On the Origin of Species, but could not kill the concept of intelligent design. This book is the first salvo of the next 150 years. Dembski and Witt succinctly explain what the war is about in a way understandable to a general audience. If people you know have bought the propaganda that ID is just a gussied-up version of six-day creationism, give them this book.”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“Bouncy title, thoughtful subtitle, tight writing, and nuanced analysis: Joy for the World lays out enjoyably what we need to understand to save freedom of religion. Greg Forster brilliantly shows that we should expect, embrace, and work to preserve a crowded and uncomfortable public square, because if we’re scared by it the naked public square that results will weaken Christianity and America.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“A great encore. Chuck’s fervent joy in being freed by Christ shines through all his slashing critiques of contemporary trends.”
History & Biography
“Clemens Cavallin illuminates Michael O'Brien's development as author and artist. He describes the twenty-one-year-old's conversion experience and the thirty-four-year-old's crisis with fatigue, insomnia, and thousands of dollars of unpaid bills. We learn how O'Brien envisioned his popular Father Elijah novels, with a Jewish-turned-Christian protagonist and a cultured Antichrist, and his greatest work, Island of the World, set in Croatia and Bosnia.”
“Ben Shapiro’s amusing romp through American history has a serious message: Image has always mattered in presidential politics, and yearning for an imaginary good old days gets us nowhere.”
Dr.
Christian Living
“Comedian Henny Youngman said, ‘What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.’ Paul Tripp teaches that financial matters always concern the heart, and only a heart change—not a New Year’s resolution, not a budget, not winning a lottery—will make us generous and happy.”
Christian Living
“Rethinking Worldview throws off sparks able to light the dry tinder that many Sunday school classes and seminary seminars have become. Bertrand's four worldview pillars, his explanation of how to move from consumer to critic to contributor, his discussion of personal unity and diversity within the Trinity, and much besides, make this book worth having and giving.”
History & Biography
“The Evangelicals is a good book to give those who know of this purportedly weird tribe only from sensationalistic new stories. Christopher Catherwood’s easy-to-read style makes this introduction to evangelical thought and practice like a cup of chamomile tea at bedtime–and it won’t produce any nightmares.”
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Arts & Literature
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