In The Moon is Always Round Jonathan Gibson has given us a fine gift – the tragedy of the stillbirth of his daughter turned into a book to help children process suffering. Illustrated beautifully by Joe Hox, Gibson takes us through the story of that loss through the eyes of his son Ben, using the […]
In A War of Loves, David Bennett has written a stimulating book that will challenge many different segments of the church over the question of human sexuality and identity. A War of Loves is not the book that many people (from all across the spectrum of opinion) will have wanted to read but, because of that, it might […]
Reformation Worship is a wonderful book that needs to be on the bookshelf of every discerning Christian and I suspect it may very well be a volume that has a massive impact upon the gathering of God’s people in years to come. The book has a simple format. There’s three essays by the editors followed by […]
Mike Bull is an Australian Christian author who writes stimulating books under the (self-publishing) moniker of “Bible Matrix“. Here’s how he describes his own work: …the basic premise is that the Bible is a “literary fractal.” This means that every part of it is the same shape as the entire book. This is because God […]
Some things are crystal-clear, but until you actually see them for what they are you would never know. Take for example, something blatantly obvious like the fact that salt and caramel are a powerful and wonderful combination. If you’ve not had salted caramel then you couldn’t possibly know. But the first time you put some […]
Of the shortlisted books for sparklit’s Australian Christian Book of the Year Award 2015, without a doubt the one which I have been repeatedly asked to review is Foster’s Suburban Captivity of the Church. Short of time I’m not going to get to it, but I understand a couple of reviews are being written out there […]
