Books

Wilson’s Bookmarks

Brief reviews of ‘The Divine Voice,’ ‘So Brilliantly Clever,’ and ‘American Science Fiction’

The Divine Voice: Christian Proclamation and the Theology of Sound Stephen H. Webb (Wipf & Stock)

What's the most grievously overlooked work of theology from the last decade? One candidate is this book by Stephen H. Webb (one of my 2004 end-of-the-year favorites). Since then, the field now known as "Sound Studies" has exploded, but first-rate theological entries are still in short supply. Three loud cheers to Wipf & Stock for putting The Divine Voice back into circulation. "Sound is invisible and thus it can penetrate walls and barge unannounced through closed doors. It is this invisibility that makes sound so convenient for thinking about our relationship to God."

So Brilliantly Clever: Parker, Hulme & the Murder That Shocked the World Peter Graham (Awa Press)

In 1954, two girls in New Zealand (aged 15 and 16) murdered one girl's mother, beating her to death. Peter Jackson's 1994 film Heavenly Creatures provoked journalists to try and track down the perpetrators 40 years after the event. One of the two, having served her sentence, had left New Zealand and taken a new identity as Anne Perry, becoming an internationally successful writer of historical crime fiction. Peter Graham, a lawyer, has written a compulsively readable and morally probing account of the case and its aftermath.

American Science Fiction: Nine Classic Novels of the 1950s Edited by Gary K. Wolfe (Library Of America)

This handsome two-volume set (a Christmas gift idea?) includes work by Alfred Bester, James Blish, Leigh Brackett, Algis Budrys, Robert A. Heinlein, Fritz Leiber, Richard Matheson, and Theodore Sturgeon. While providing many hours of good reading for old-timers and newcomers alike, these novels cast a cold light on received opinion about "the Fifties."

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Why Love Never Ends

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The Need for Creeds

Shari'ah's Uphill Climb

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The Key to a Purposeful Life

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Should Seminary Professors Be Granted Tenure?

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This (Ambiguous) Political Life

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Doubting China's One-Child Policy Change

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Crisis of Faith Statements

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Review: The Church In An Age of Crisis

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Review: Amplifying Our Witness

My Top 5 Books on Homosexuality

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Letters to the Editor

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Go Figure

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Quotation Marks

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Top ACNA Leader Faces Sexual Harassment Allegations

Following a string of scandals, the accusations against Archbishop Steve Wood come amid plans for the denomination to overhaul its abuse response.

The Russell Moore Show

 Listener Question: Should Communion Be Open to All Believers?

Russell takes a listener’s question about church membership and the Communion table.

Anti-Fragile Faith in Chaotic Times

Slow Theology highlights how a long obedience in the same direction grows.

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Christian Colleges Object to Trump ‘Overreach’ on Higher Ed

The administration’s compact with universities would freeze tuition for five years and cap the number of international students, among other measures.

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An explainer on sectarianism, and how it keeps the region divided.

The Bulletin

Young Republican Texts, Anglican Split, and George Santos Released

Controversial Republican texts, Anglican Communion splits, and George Santos’s sentence is commuted.

Review

Do Evangelical Political Errors Rise to the Level of Heresy?

A Lutheran pastor identifies five false teachings that threaten to corrupt the church’s public witness.

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