Category: Book Reviews

  • Book Review: Girls Gone Wise

    Girls Gone Wise (In a World Gone Wild) by Mary Kassian Moody Publishers Upon reading the title of Mary Kassian’s new book Girls Gone Wise (In a World Gone Wild), my first thought was of the Joe Francis franchise, Girls Gone Wild. Perhaps you are familiar with the late night commercials: barely legal girls baring…

  • Book Review: The Church of Facebook

    Book Review: The Church of Facebook

    How the Hyperconnected Are Redefining Community by Jesse Rice How many people among your friends and family have a Facebook account?  I bet the number is growing.  About a month ago, my father announced his initial foray into the internet when he sent me a friend request.  “I bought a computer today!” he emailed.  It’s…

  • My initial thoughts after reading Radical

    My initial thoughts after reading Radical

    “Initial” because I’m sure I’ll be revisiting it. Taking back your faith from the American Dream by David Platt I don’t know where to begin, so I’m just going to start writing. This book contains a radical message for the church in America.  In Radical, David Platt shares how he is leading the church he…

  • Book Review: The Book Tree

    by Elizabeth McCallum and Jane Scott The Book Tree is a book about books.  More specifically, the selections featured in The Book Tree comprise a body of literature that will encourage godly character development in children and young adults.  McCallum and Scott were very specific about which books they would feature.  Their criterion for inclusion…

  • Book Review: What Is the Gospel?

    Book Review: What Is the Gospel?

    Each generation is faced with the task of preserving the Gospel, and, right now, too much of our generation is confused. This book will assist church leaders and laypeople in evaluating, on a corporate level and an individual level, their faithfulness to the Gospel.