I couldn't come up with a pithy blog title indicating that while we usually post new reviews on Tuesdays, this week we are posting on Wednesday. But I did see some common thematic threads in the reviews we posted this week, which gave rise to a whole new way of titling review announcements. Subject to our Founding Editor, of course...
Due to a busy first half of the week in Cleveland at the Basics Conference, Tim Challies posted just one review, of Roger Ellsworth's What the Bible Teaches About Angels. That title should explain itself!
On the flip side of the, er, cosmos, I (Mark Tubbs) supply a review of the C.S. Lewis classic The Screwtape Letters. Classics are always easy to recommend and hard to review.
Moving on from letters to lectures, Leslie Wiggins provides a review of a current bestseller, The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch. While Leslie has every sympathy for Pausch's circumstances, she feels he failed in drawing readers to the ultimate reason for living.
The always prolific Scott Lamb played the role of mom last week at home but still managed to eke out three reviews:
Porn Nation: Conquering America's #1 Addiction is a good book for what it is - a report about the prevalence of pornography in North America - but falls short of its subtitle, Scott finds.
Eighteenth century British minister and hymn writer Benjamin Beddome assembled a guide to the Baptist Catechism, recently reprinted by Solid Ground books as A Scriptural Exposition of the Baptist Catechism.
Finally, Scott reviews a new biography of 20th century preaching icon A.W. Tozer entitled A Passion for God, and written by Lyle Dorsett. As a pastor, father, and husband, Scott took many lessons and warnings from this introduction to Tozer's life.
Join us next week for what I hope will be a 'Banner week.' Drop by and find out what that means...
