The Gospel-Centered Mom by Sara Wallace is simply the best parenting resource I have read since becoming a mother. It’s short and practical (and comes with a pen, but not for writing out more checklists to accomplish!). This is so much more than a list… Continue Reading …

Book 5 of the HP series is a WILD ride. I was reading at a breakneck pace toward the end — it was exhilarating. And Dolores Umbridge has got to be one of the most annoying and dislikeable villains I have ever read. Hem, hem.… Continue Reading …

I had a feeling that HP 6 was going to be something of a letdown after the wild ride of number 5, and my instincts did not fail me. This is probably the weakest book of the series by far. In this chapter of the… Continue Reading …

So I finished the last book of the HP saga. I am still digesting, but overall I am pretty happy with how it ended. I would never have pictured Harry as a Christ-figure, but that role becomes more and more prominent as the book goes… Continue Reading …

I can’t believe I didn’t review this the first time I read it! Of course, I was swallowing the entire series whole at that point, and probably thought that writing a review was a waste of time that could be spent reading the next book.… Continue Reading …

I’m on my second read of the HP series, and I was looking forward to revisiting this one! It’s Harry’s third year at Hogwarts, and the outside world starts to creep in a bit. Sirius Black, the wizard believed to have led Voldemort to the… Continue Reading …

This is the fourth Harry Potter book, and it really takes off from the darker, outside elements of the third book. The first three books are pretty lighthearted and fun, despite their hints of darkness and fear. But in Goblet of Fire, the outside world… Continue Reading …

In this persuasive book, D. A. Carson argues that Western culture as a whole has come to define tolerance quite differently from its original meaning. In the original definition of tolerance, people believed that there was absolute truth that could be known. You would tolerate… Continue Reading …

Augustine’s City of God (in Latin, Civitas Dei) is a foundational treatise on basic Christian doctrine, and is an important work in the development of Western Christianity. I’m not a scholar and don’t plan to trace the work’s theological, rhetorical, and historical importance; I read it for pleasure… Continue Reading …

What would Hitler say to Jesus—and Jesus to Hitler? In The Lamb and the Führer, Ravi Zacharias imagines their conversation a few minutes after Hitler’s suicide. A bit further on, another famous man joins the dialogue, the German pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer who was executed for a… Continue Reading …