Rod Dreher

Believe

Apologetics

“make basic theism more reasonable than atheism, and embracing a religious life engaged with a particular enduring tradition more sensible than spiritual novelty or moralistic therapeutic deism. Douthat’s calm, analytical temperament, his intellectual humility, and his charity toward opponents make him a companionable guide for honest seekers. Believe is not only Ross Douthat’s best book but also one that will make a life-changing difference for untold numbers of people trapped in epistemic bondage. For them, Believe is a golden key that will open a cell door that has been locked from the inside.”

Building the Benedict Option

Christian Living

“Leah Libresco is the den mother of the Benedict Option. To read this book is not just to encounter good ideas, but also to awaken to one';s own gifts for hospitality and community-building.”

Faith for Exiles

Christian Living

“A trustworthy guide through the emerging post-Christian order that neither denies the urgent reality of the bad news nor downplays the radical hope of the Good News. This prophetic book inspired me to rethink my own assumptions about how to live faithfully in our American exile.”

From Fire, by Water

History & Biography

“Lives — indeed, as I believe, eternal destinies — will be changed by this book. I wish every angry young man who hates God could read this moving, challenging personal confession of a still-young man who has been where they are, and who gained wisdom and release.”

Good Faith

Christian Living

“The signs of the times signal fear and confusion for many orthodox Christians—but not for David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons. They are trustworthy guides through the emerging post-Christian order because they neither deny the urgent reality of the bad news nor downplay the radical hope of the Good News. What stands out about Good Faith is its unflinching realism, a quality that challenges the false but emotionally satisfying narratives of happy-clappy optimists and sky-is-falling pessimists. This prophetic book inspired me to rethink my own assumptions about how to live faithfully in our American exile.”

Life in the Negative World

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Renn's insights guide me in my own thinking about fidelity under fire. Life in The Negative World is both a work of practical hope, and a serious book for serious believers learning how to be strangers in a strange land.”

Pop Goes Religion

Arts & Literature

“POP GOES RELIGION" "Terry Mattingly is arguably this country's most judicious commentator on the interface between religion and popular culture; and in Pop Goes Religion, he gives us the best of his best. In equal parts entertaining and informative, these pieces and Mattingly's running commentary about the context of each celebrate America's deep, if sometimes idiosyncratic, absorption with all things religious." PHYLLIS TICKLE Religion Editor (ret.), Publishers Weekly and compiler of The Divine Hours "As this excellent collection of essays demonstrates, Terry Mattingly understands that finding faith in popular culture is no trivial pursuit. These columns remain fresh and relevant. They were so informative, I found myself taking notes!" MARK I. PINSKY Author of The Gospel According to Disney "Terry Mattingly's astonishingly broad grasp of popular culture is matched by an impressive talent for writing with fairness and insight, even about things that would have most of us tearing our hair out. Get on board for a wild ride with the best of guides." FREDERICA MATHEWES-GREEN Beliefnet.com columnist and National Review Online movie critic "This is a book I've been waiting for. A must-read for anyone who hopes to communicate faith to a society mesmerized by pop culture, and for anyone else who wants to plumb the depths of the stuff on their MP3 players and TiVos and at their local multiplex. Terry Mattingly is a uniquely acute observer of both pop culture and religion who inhabits both worlds simultaneously, spotting the parallels, conflicts, and convergences. He is the theologian invading 'Entertainment Tonight. the pop culture fan who understands and reveals the world of church, synagogue, and mosque." BISHOP WILLIAM C. FREY Author of The Dance of Hope He gets it. Terry Mattingly—of GetReligion.org, among many other good works—gets the spirit and flavor and texture of those improbable locations where religion and modern culture encounter and circle each other: not quite enemies, not quite friends. In "Pop Goes Religion," he makes very certain you get it, too. WILLIAM MURCHISON Radford Distinguished Professor of Journalism, Baylor University If there's a Christian writing today who understands better than Terry Mattingly the complex relationship between religion and popular culture, I don't know who he is. Mattingly has a veteran journalist's unerring eye for discerning the deeper issues and forces at work among believers today, and writes with a missionary urgency about the challenges and crises that arise when pulpit meets public square.”

The Love That Matters

History & Biography

“I read the unedited galley on the flight to Boston this morning. It started out good, and it kept getting better, and finally I couldn't believe how good this thing was. I'm not kidding when I say this: Charles Featherstone has written an American spiritual classic. I have never read a book like this--one that's so ragged, raw, and real. I couldn't put it down, except that one time, when the shock of recognition was so great that I had to set the book aside and think deeply about what I had just read.”