Love

Alan Jacobs on Reading with Love

Back when I was a PhD student at Wheaton, I remember coming into the library’s cafe area and discovering a book lying on the table: Alan Jacobs’ A Theology of Reading: The Hermeneutics of Love (Boulder, CO: Westview, 2001). This looks interesting, I thought. And it’s one of the pleasures of PhD days that you … [Read more…]

Serving Christ by Serving Others

I’m interested in Christian identity. How does our new life in Christ change how we should think about ourselves? And how does thinking rightly about ourselves change how we live? One excellent book on Christian identity I just finished was, Who Am I? Identity in Christ, by Jerry Bridges (Cruciform Press, 2012). A real gem … [Read more…]