Children's Books
Trouble Dog – Carol A. Foote
Up until reading this book I had no idea that conservation dogs existed. Of course, I knew that dogs could be taught to track and find things—that’s how a lot of breeds were bred, after […]
Publisher: Eerdmans
Children's Books
Thread by Thread – Alice Brière-Haquet and Michela Eccli
At the end of 2023, the UNHCR reported that 117.3 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide, including 43.4 million refugees, 68.3 million internally displaced people, and 6.9 million asylum seekers. Midway through 2025, as I […]
Children's Books
Ramon Fellini the Dog Detective – Guilherme Karsten
A fish has fallen and there’s only one detective that can solve the case—Ramon Fellini the Dog Detective! The fishbowl has fallen down the stairs. The fish is lying, gasping on the floor. He is […]
Academic
Christmaker: A Life of John the Baptist
John the Baptist is often seen an apertif, an amuse-bouche, a prelude, or an entry into the story of Jesus. He whets our appetite for the Kingdom of God by dancing in his mother’s womb […]
Academic
The Next Quest for the Historical Jesus – James Crossley and Chris Keith
Despite the title sounding like a bad Christian time-travel novel, The Next Quest for the Historical Jesus is a pretty much the opposite: a well-written, comprehensive, extensively-researched, expertly-crafted foray into what can be known about […]
Academic
One Lost Soul: Richard Nixon’s Search for Salvation – Daniel Silliman
It’s hard to feel empathy for Richard Nixon, but in One Lost Soul: Richard Nixon’s Search for Salvation, Daniel Silliman manages to paint a complex portrait of a lost and troubled man whose search for […]
Academic
Machen’s Hope – Richard Burnett
Biographies tend to be written by folks who align with their subjects in some fashion—socially, politically, religiously. There are exceptions, of course, but by and large those who are interested in chronicling an individual’s life […]
Academic
Hebrews: Commentary for Christian Formation – Amy Peeler
The Commentaries for Christian Formation is a relatively new Bible commentary series from Eerdmans that has the central focus of faith formation. That is, the focus is not simply academic translation and interpretation from a […]
Academic
Remarriage in the Early Church – A. Andrew Das
The issue of remarriage in Christianity has often been a contentious one, usually revolving around the words of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount that (in the King James), “whosoever shall marry her that […]
Non-Fiction
Exploring the Paranormal – R. Alan Streett
I really didn’t know what I was getting into with Exploring the Paranormal: Miracles, Magic, and the Mysterious. Written by Dr. R. Alan Streett, professor emeritus of biblical theology at Criswell College, the book is a […]