Each issue we're looking at a book published during Modern Reformation's 15-year history, with a look to why this book was and still is significant. It is easy to recognize sin when it is packaged in the fires of an explosion. When a car bomb ripped through the World Trade Center in 1993, and then […]
Tuesday, 06 November, 2007 by Brandon G. Withrow
It doesn't arrive as a hipper-than-thou podcast or as a series of txt msgs, but it does come with a flashy blue and orange cover with a slick, mildly edgy font. Listening to the Beliefs of Emerging Churches offers five perspectives of the Emerging church. The volume aims to give the reader a taste of […]
Friday, 31 August, 2007 by Brandon G. Withrow
In a post-9/11 world where the three dominant monotheistic religions appeal to the Bible (in some form or another) for authority, to whom the Bible belongs is a legitimate question. This is the inquiry that drives Jaroslav Pelikan's Whose Bible Is It? A History of the Scriptures Through the Ages. Pelikan, Sterling Professor Emeritus of […]
Thursday, 03 May, 2007 by Brandon G. Withrow
Shades of gray are the new black. For evangelicals who wonder why, if the church is one body with one spirit, we are divided by so many ideas, comes a new book by John Franke. You can label The Character of Theology; you can disagree with it; but if you are concerned about communicating the […]
Thursday, 03 May, 2007 by Brandon G. Withrow
Satire is alive and well. For every person who has ever cringed at boxes of "Christian" breath mints or "Christian" perfume at the checkout counter of the local Christian bookstore, here is a writer who understands your pain. Like his fake news website LarkNews.com, aimed at evangelicals and their trends, editor Joel Kilpatrick brings us […]
Thursday, 03 May, 2007 by Brandon G. Withrow