Book Reviews

Church leaders with an interest in higher education will want to take a look at Christianity In The Academy (Baker Academic) by Harry Lee Poe. He talks about the challenges facing American higher education in a postmodern age, explores the integration of faith and learning in the context of Christia

With Easter approaching, we will once again be offered a variety of perspectives in the traditional seasonal stories in American newsmagazines. (Every year at Easter and Christmas, Time and Newsweek rediscover the church.) For those interested in a more substatntive treatment of the debate

For those who are curious about the continuing emergence of the "emerging church" - or those interested in seeing what is happening in church life in the United Kingdom - Michael Moynagh's emergingchurch.intro (Monarch Books) will be of interest. Moynagh offers a sympathetic survey of many of the

Earlier in this issue, Ron Allen writes about things laypeople wish they could tell their pastor about preaching, based on a major research project. Make The Word Come Alive (Chalice Press), edited by Allen and Mary Allice Mulligan, is based on that same research. In it, the observations of

As ministers driven by the day-to-day demands of church life, it is easy for us to focus almost exclusively on the pragmatic side of ministry, to the exclusion of thinking theologically about what we do. Ministry In The Image Of God (InterVarsity Press) by Stephen Seamands helps us think more deep

Speaking of creativity, pastors and church leaders will find much of value in Ed Young, Jr.'s new volume The Creative Leader: Unleashing The Power Of Your Creative Potential (Broadman Holman). As John Ortberg has observed, "Ed Young is one of the most creative leaders of one of the most creative c

Engaging Worship (Group) offers "20 Blueprints for Experiential Church Services" and includes a CD-ROM that includes PowerPoint slides, sound effects, videos, photos, drama scripts and lyrics to supplement the worship plans contained here. For those seeking to introduce a greater level of creativit

Today's preachers have much to be gained by sitting at the feet of those who have gone before us. In his new book Sacred Rhetoric: Preaching as a Theological and Pastoral Practice of the Church(Wm. B. Eerdmans), Michael Pasquarello III offers us an opportunity to learn from voices like Augustine, S

Stewards of the Story: The Task of Preaching Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2006. Paper, 108 pages, $16.95. ISBN 978-0664-22981-8. In Stewards of the Story, James Earl Massey reminds us of the awesome task to whichwe have been called as proclaimers of the Word, and models for us what it m