Sep
02
2010
What's New This Week at TGCReviews
There are several new additions at TGC Reviews - the book review site of The Gospel Coalition. Here are the highlights:
Interviews:
Justin Taylor, Collin Hansen, Kevin DeYoung, and I recently discussed the importance and practice of writing well. Why should Christians write well? What does good writing look like? How do you improve, and how do you find the time?
Reviews:
Christians should not “chase cool.” No one will disagree with that, right? But there are a lot of Christians who look cool - is anything wrong with that? Brooklyn hipster Kristen Scharold gives an honest assessment of Brett McCracken’s Hipster Christianity (Baker, 2010), which looks at the phenomena of chic Christians. Kristen attends Resurrection Presbyterian Church, one of the “Christian hipster churches” that McCracken profiles in his book.
Just what is Evangelicalism? It’s becoming harder to define without giving in a number of qualifying statements. Something New, Something Old: Evangelicals points to Christopher Catherwood’s new book, The Evangelicals (Crossway, 2010), which takes a shot at profiling the movement, also pointing to Mark Noll’s influential The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (Eerdmans, 1994).
Think worship wars have gone away? T. David Gordon ensures that the waves will not remain settled much longer in Why Johnny Can’t Sing Hymns (P&R, 2010) - reviewed by Todd Pruitt.
For our readers, there probably are not two topics more dear than the Gospel and the glory of God. Chet Daniels reviews The Gospel Centred Life (The Good Book Co., 2009), by Steve Timmis and Tim Chester (Just a heads-up, be on the lookout for our review of The Gospel Centred Family and Church) and Nick Roark reviews The Glory of God (Crossway, 2010), edited by Christopher Morgan and Robert Peterson.
Also, don’t miss Franklin Payne’s review of Wired for Intimacy (IVP, 2009), by William Struthers, on the problem of pornography and the male brain.