Sara Weinraub introduces us to the lovely book THE DAY-TO-DAY LIFE OF ALBERT HASTINGS http://weatherspoon.wordpress.com/2009/03/09/ I’m charmed by many of the books Princeton Architectural Press publishes. A recent PAP favorite is The Day-to-Day Life of Albert Hastings. Photographer Kaylynn Devene...

Our favorite music critic Andy Whitman reviews U2’s new album NO LINE ON THE HORIZON http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2009/februaryweb-only/108-41.0.html “Time is irrelevant, it’s not linear,” Bono proclaims near the beginning of No Line on the Horizon (4 stars), U2’...

The ORION magazine review of A NATURAL SENSE OF WONDER: CONNECTING KIDS WITH NATURE THROUGH THE SEASONS by Rick Van Noy http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/review/4269/ RULE NUMBER SEVEN in our shaggy tiny house crammed with three lanky children: one hour of screen time per day, you choo...

Scot McKnight Starts a Conversation on Jean Twenge’s GENERATION ME. http://blog.beliefnet.com/jesuscreed/2009/02/igens-1.html When it comes to grasping the big picture of what is doing on in culture, the single-most important book I have read in the last thirty years is Robert Bellah’s f...

Miroslav Volf Reviews JUSTICE: RIGHTS AND WRONGS by Nicholas Wolterstorff http://www.christianitytoday.com/bc/2009/janfeb/16.26.html Nicholas Wolterstorff’s Justice: Rights and Wrongs is a magisterial book. In it and in its smaller forthcoming companion volume Justice and Love, Wolterstorff ha...

The Other Journal interviews Vinoth Ramachandra Author of SUBVERTING GLOBAL MYTHS http://www.theotherjournal.com/article.php?id=566 The Other Journal (TOJ): Dr. Ramachandra, it is an honor to talk with you about your recent book Subverting Global Myths and about how your work might help us understan...

Bill McKibben Reviews The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters     http://www.christianitytoday.com/bc/2009/janfeb/1.19.html This remarkable volume is in certain ways the story of euphemism, and the damage euphemism can do. We are, almost universally, at least ...

The Washington Post Reviews THE MAGICIAN’s BOOK: A SKEPTIC’S ADVENTURES IN NARNIA http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/12/12/ST2008121203180.html As a small girl growing up in California, Laura Miller did not just long to visit Narnia. So bewitched was she by that imag...

Jesus Manifesto Reviews RE-JESUS by Michael Frost and Alan Hirsch http://www.jesusmanifesto.com/2008/12/04/rejesus-revisioning-christology/ ReJesus is the latest offering from the dynamic duo of Michael Frost and Alan Hirsch.   Let me say up front: I love these guys and their passion. I hope Iâ...

Interview with Matt Bonzo about his book WENDELL BERRY AND THE CULTIVATION OF LIFE http://cpyubookshelf.blogspot.com/2008/11/matt-bonzo-on-wendell-berry-and.html CPYU: What first drew you to Wendell Berry’s writing? How has he influenced your work as a philosopher and college professor?   MB:...