Paul Wallace

Exploding Stars, Dead Dinosaurs, and Zombies

Science & Faith

“Andy Root tells the truth: you can’t keep faith and science apart. Evolution, the Big Bang, and other scientific topics have revolutionized the way we understand ourselves, yet the church remains unprepared to deal with them. This is especially so in youth ministry, where kids in the midst of deep intellectual formation wonder how faith can possibly make sense in light of an evolving, 14-billion-year-old cosmos. To this question Root brings his gift for storytelling, his love of science and philosophy, and his abiding concern for the pragmatics of ministry. The result is a moving, exhaustively researched, and imminently useful guide for youth workers who want to welcome science into their ministry but don’t quite know how.”

Systematic Mythology

Theology

“In this deeply original book, Jennifer Agee holds orthodoxy up to the ancient light of myth and the Christian narrative shines anew—abstraction is replaced by concreteness; analysis is joined by imagination; and new worlds of meaning spring up all round the reader. Systematic Mythology bears all the creativity of the monotheistic myth toward which it calls us, yet never loses sight of tradition.”