Bookshelf Anomalies #1 Bookshelf Anomalies #2 Bookshelf Anomalies #3 Bookshelf Anomalies #4 The anomaly of these two books lie in the authors: John Piper and Tony Jones. If you don’t know about the history of these two gentlemen (it’s not adversarial, but they do disagree with one another and have even met for lunch to […]

Bookshelf Anomalies #1 Bookshelf Anomalies #2 Bookshelf Anomalies #3 Two more books that take different approaches to a similar topic sitting next to one another on my bookshelf: The Soul of Ministry by Ray S. Anderson. Anderson is a former pastor who is currently a theologian at Fuller Theological Seminary. He reminds me of a […]

Bookshelf Anomalies #1 Bookshelf Anomalies #2 In the first two installments of Bookshelf Anomalies I highlighted pairs of books that were ideologically at odds with one another. In this edition, it’s not the actual content of the books that makes things interesting. It’s just the way the titles go together. The two books are: Knowing […]

Bookshelf Anomalies #1 These two books fall fairly neatly into conservative and liberal/progressive categories. Old Testament Exegesis (by Douglas Stuart of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary) is a handbook of sorts for students and pastors, providing a systematic way for studying and exegeting a passage of scripture. Struggling with Scripture is a different kind of book, a […]

I’m a little OCD in my book organization. All of my library is on LibraryThing, including each book’s Library of Congress catalog number. So, I arrange my books in order of their Library of Congress number. There might be a few mistakes, but regardless, I put my books on the shelf just like LibraryThing sorts […]