Category: Books

Hello everyone! I hope you’ve been enjoying our series this month on fiction. I’ve learned lots from my fellow TTC writers, both about books I haven’t read and

The “young adult” section, in my humble and perhaps slightly immature opinion, is one of the most underrated sections of the library. True, it perhaps isn’t the most

  The The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis is one of my favorites as well as one of his more popular works. A very simple overview of the

I first picked up Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness when I was looking for something interesting to read on a long night plane ride. I loathe flying especially

  Tolkien’s The Silmarillion is a good book, a long book, a beautiful book, a tragic book, a salvific book, a book that heals the soul. I couldn’t possibly be expected

A well-told story has the ability to shape your heart in unexpected ways. Growing up in my particular brand of evangelicalism there was a staunch effort placed on

This semester, I’m teaching a course on the 1960s, and one of the readings I assigned was Madeleine L’Engle’s classic (and 1963 Newberry award-winner) A Wrinkle in Time. I’ve returned

I love a good story. The problem is that I seem to have very little time to read good stories. This is most unfortunate, because stories bring with

I recently read Justin Lee’s spiritual memoir Torn: Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays vs Christians Debate, and like its predecessor, Wesley Hill’s Washed and Waiting, I found Torn to be

James KA Smith asks “Who’s afraid of Postmodernism?” because the answer is, ‘Basically everyone in the (white?) Evangelical church.’ If you go to church in that subset, it’s rather