Book Reviews

Take Up and Read: The Republic

February 20, 2018

This current blog series on Reflections is intended to encourage Christians to read more vigorously by providing a beginner’s guide to some of the...

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by Kenneth Samples Read

A Dozen Book Favorites, Part 3

January 16, 2018

As I wrote in parts one and two of this three-part series, only human beings read books. The great Greek philosopher Aristotle thought the...

Education

by Kenneth Samples Read

A Dozen Book Favorites, Part 2

January 9, 2018

As I wrote in part one of this series, only human beings are readers. The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle thought the distinguishing feature of...

Education

by Kenneth Samples Read

A Dozen Book Favorites, Part 1

January 2, 2018

Only human beings read. The great Greek philosopher Aristotle thought the distinguishing feature of people is their ability to use language. And humans use...

Education

by Kenneth Samples Read

Take Up and Read: More Than a Carpenter

December 12, 2017

This current blog series on Reflections is intended to encourage Christians to read more vigorously by providing a beginner’s guide to some of the...

Education

by Kenneth Samples Read

Take Up and Read: How to Think about the Great Ideas

November 28, 2017

This current blog series on Reflections is intended to encourage Christians to read more vigorously by providing a beginner’s guide to some of the...

Education

by Kenneth Samples Read

Take Up and Read: Here I Stand—A Life of Martin Luther

October 31, 2017

This current blog series on Reflections is intended to encourage Christians to read more vigorously by providing a beginner’s guide to some of the...

Education

by Kenneth Samples Read

Take Up and Read: Engaging Unbelief

September 26, 2017

A very brief introduction to these important Christian texts will motivate today’s believers, as St. Augustine was called to in his dramatic conversion to...

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by Kenneth Samples Read

Take Up and Read: Luther’s Small Catechism

September 12, 2017

This week’s book, Luther’s Small Catechism, was written by the man known as the father of the Protestant Reformation. More than merely a Lutheran...

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by Kenneth Samples Read

Take Up and Read: Know the Truth

August 22, 2017

Know the Truth: A Handbook of Christian Belief, is by Christian theologian Bruce Milne and is one of the finest handbooks available on the...

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by Kenneth Samples Read

Take Up and Read: Handbook of Basic Bible Texts

August 8, 2017

This week’s book, Handbook of Basic Bible Texts, is by Christian theologian John Jefferson Davis and is the most helpful work I’ve used in...

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by Kenneth Samples Read

Take Up and Read: Questions That Matter

July 25, 2017

This week’s book, Questions That Matter, originally written by Ed Miller and later revised with coauthor Jon Jensen, is not a Christian classic but...

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by Kenneth Samples Read