Here are my picks for the best books of 2012, in no particular order. The titles link to my reviews (if available) or to Amazon : Selling Water by the River by Shane Hipps I haven’t gotten to post my review of this book yet, but it was one of the best surprises of 2012. […]
Did you know that the nativity scene is a lie? The wise men weren’t there. When they did show up there were probably more than 3 of them, Jesus wasn’t a newborn, and the king ordered one of the most horrific massacres in all of recorded history, a Christmas bloodbath that would make Stephen King cringe. The actual […]
For anyone who’s ever tried seriously to read the Bible, the gap between our 21st century American culture and the ancient world of the Scriptures has proven to be very challenging, if not outright impossible. Plenty of earnest Christians have tried to understand the Scriptures only to be thwarted by the Levirate Law or unspoken […]
Unless you are Amish, you are probably aware that zombies are way in right now. Which is at least slightly weird since zombies aren’t even a little bit sexy. I mean, there’s not much you can do to glamorize the zombie apocalypse. But Walking Dead is the biggest show on TV. The number of zombie […]
Something you may not know about me: when I was growing up, I was the Apologetics Kid. Apologetics, by the way, is the fancy word for a “systematic argumentative discourse” which is the fancy way to say “defending Christianity”. I was really into Apologetics. As in I argued with my science teachers and my atheist […]
It’s easy to be thankful when everything is going well, but how can we have an attitude of gratitude when life has us on the ropes? Like most of you, life doesn’t always go the way I hope. So how should we respond? Why is trust in God such a big part of thankfulness? Full […]
The first time I read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, I was probably 10 years old. I just remember enjoying the story, marveling at the magical world of Narnia. As I grew up, I heard that The Chronicles of Narnia were spiritual allegories, and as I reflected on the plot of the book, […]
When I was in the middle of writing my proposal for Undead I found out that an author named Matt Mikalatos would soon be releasing a book called Night of the Living Dead Christian, a fun story about how we often act like famous fictional monsters. Well, he did and it’s awesome. Last week Matt […]
I’m giving away 10 FREE copies of A Year of Biblical Womanhood! Details at the end of the post. Who would’ve thought that the next book to blow up the Christian publishing industry would be Rachel Held Evans’ attempt to live for a year following all the Bible’s rules for women? But gender is the […]
One of the early promos for the original airing of The Walking Dead used the idea of how a person’s awareness of God would come into play during a zombie apocalypse. Of all the footage the producers could have selected to help introduce this new show they chose these 15 seconds for one of the […]