Twenty-first Century Impressions of “Pride and Prejudice”
by Alexandra Harper This month marks the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, an early 19th-century literary masterpiece which has exploded into a 21st-century universal romance. References to the British novel abound in contemporary American culture through the proliferation of classic and modern films (e.g., Bridget Jones’ Diary, Lost in Austen), and literary spin-offs of fan-based romances, mysteries, and even...
Book Review of “A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities from Paul and His Prayers” (D. A. Carson)
By Michael Locklear When you see the book title, A Call to Spiritual Reformation, you may ask, “Is this just another book on prayer—and limited to the prayers of the apostle Paul at that? Should I take the time to even read this book?” To that, I answer no and yes. In one sense, this is not just another book on prayer. In fact, Carson confesses “how little… biblical material on prayer” his short book actually covers [1]. He does not...
The Explicit Gospel (Matt Chandler)
Review By Cody Balfour The American Church is quickly spreading a gospel, but is it really the Gospel? First Corinthians 15:1-4 clearly states what the Gospel is: Christ crucified, buried, and resurrected. Despite this, many churches are drifting away from that crucial message. And increasingly, they fail to identify the Gospel as God Himself—a rather bold, but nevertheless biblical, message. Matt Chandler has addressed this very...
The Ethical Vision of Clint Eastwood (Sara Vaux)
Review by Jared Austin While many films Hollywood produces excel aesthetically, most are full of postmodern secularism and lack common ground with the Christian viewer. Conversely, directors such as Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, and the Coen brothers make films many Christians have analyzed because of their religious themes which inform and shape public thought. Another such director is the iconic Clint Eastwood. In her book The...
Presence, Power, and Promise (eds. David G. Firth and Paul D. Wegner)
FIRTH, David G. Firth and Paul D. Wegner, eds., Presence, Power and Promise: The Role of the Spirit of God in the Old Testament, Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2011, 415 pp. $24.00 paperback, ISBN 978-0-8308-3975-5. Review by Kevin Williford Throughout the church’s history, Christians have often found it difficult to relate to the Old Testament (“OT”). On the one hand, some write off the Old Testament as being, well, the “Old”...
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