John Stovall
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The Messianic Prophecies in the Book of Zechariah
There was a blizzard over Thanksgiving weekend this year. The snow fell throughout the day and by nightfall two feet of white covered the ground. Looking out, I saw amid the darkness clean, clear, pure white. The muck was obscured, the dirt invisible. All that I beheld was bright, driven snow; the light shining in […]
“Truth We Can Touch” by Tim Chester
He is not a prophet, nor the son of a prophet. But Tim Chester is prescient. Little did he know that the Western church would enact the thought experiments which open his recent book, Truth We Can Touch: How Baptism and Communion Shape Our Lives. Congregations across the globe have performed these studies: what would […]
“We’re Still Here” by Jennifer Silva
Michael Fisher is a muscular twenty-four year old man. As he sits down for the interview, he confesses that “this is probably the first time I’ve left the house without carrying a gun.” He’s been booked on assault charges, even though “I got jumped by two guys from New York…I had to make sure my […]
“Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse” by Tim Carney
As I write these words, our British cousins have concluded their version of an election campaign. It took six weeks. A mere breeze of politics. But everything is bigger in America, so our electoral contests now seem never-ending, with no time to stop from 2016 to 2020. As those contests, so their lessons: never-ending books […]
“Originals: How Non-Conformists Move The World” by Adam Grant
They are the bane of every graduation speech, the baleful platitudes adorning 3rd grade posters since time immemorial: Dare to be Different! Dream Big. Be Original! Wharton professor Adam Grant’s book Originals tiptoes down the hall towards those elementary school placards. A peek at the table of contents suggests adult aphorisms for the MBA & […]
