February 2019 – Mere Pensees

David Lyle Jeffrey, “Luke” (Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible)

February 17, 2019 by Roger Clegg

I deliberately sought out a book in this series on one of the gospels because I enjoyed its volume on Acts (by a different author) so much. And I’m glad I did: Professor Jeffrey is unfailingly insightful and judicious. I enjoyed, for example, his periodic observations on Luke’s likely source for this or that passage; recall … [Read more…]

John M. Mulder, editor, “Finding God: A Treasury of Conversion Stories”

February 2, 2019 by Roger Clegg

This book collects the Christian conversion stories of sixty people, most of them famous and all in his or her own words (with a short introduction to each by the editor). They are fairly short accounts: The book is about 400 pages long, so that’s less than seven pages apiece, minus the intro and page … [Read more…]