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Baptism and Public Life

Michael Hopkins provides an extended practical commentary on the rite of Holy Baptism in the Book of Common Prayer.

Josef Pieper: Beginning with the Whole

A Catholic German philosopher who lived from 1904 to 1997, Josef Pieper shaped theological luminaries like Joseph Ratzinger and Hans Urs von Balthasar.

Can the Irreverent Be Reverent?

Deadpool learns what it may mean to be “Marvel Jesus.”

Protestant and Catholic Newman

In this clearly written book, T.L. Holtzen explains why the complicated debates about the doctrine of justification before and after the Reformation still matter today.

Recovering Ties That Bind

Transforming Friendship Investing in the Next Generation Lessons from John Stott and Others By John Wyatt IVP, 176 pages, $13.99 John Wyatt’s book is not only timely, but it...

On Retreat with Rowan Williams

Rowan Williams reflects on early Eastern monastics’ teaching about the principal interior obstacles to spiritual growth.

‘Classicism’ and Chaos in Dalí

Salvador Dalí stated his intention of creating, with a camera’s accuracy, the dreamscape of the unconscious mind.

Anglican Devotion, Evangelical Faith

Samuel L. Bray and Drew Nathaniel Keane introduce non-Anglican evangelicals to a solid, stately liturgy with a Reformation edge.

Orderly and Confident Church Designs

Christopher Webster’s presentation of important Classical achievements such as St. Chad’s Church, Shrewsbury (George Steuart, 1790-92) is novel and enlightening.

Freedom in Christ

Passions of the Soul By Rowan Williams Bloomsbury Continuum, 121 + xxxiv pages, $15 At the heart of this slender volume is a series of retreat addresses...

In Search of a Big Picture of English Faith

We begin with Bede, who for Peter Ackroyd marks the beginning of English faith.

Anglican Devotion, Evangelical Faith

This book is a user manual to the International Version of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer published by InterVarsity Press in 2021, edited by Bray and Keane. Once that initial confusion is cleared up, the book’s intention becomes quite clear: it introduces non-Anglican evangelicals discovering liturgy for the first time to a venerable and time-tested expression of Christian worship, a solid, stately liturgy with a Reformation edge. 

A Minister’s Widow Turns Toward Jesus

Karen Stiller focuses on several words — fruit, body, money, hospitality, humility, beauty, church, remembering, and sorrow — to explain how holiness might become real in our lives.

A Tyranny of Normalcy

Autism and Worship A Liturgical Theology By Armand Léon van Ommen Baylor, 263 pages, $44.99 In 2015, my wife and I were struggling to raise our two young...

Inhabiting the Church’s Praise

The phrases “Praise and Worship” and “Contemporary Worship” have a great deal of explanatory power for understanding large swathes of the modern church.

Singleness: Eschatological and Evangelical

The Meaning of Singleness: Retrieving an Eschatological Vision for the Contemporary Church By Danielle Treweek IVP Academic, 336 pages, $35 This important book by Danielle Treweek, a deacon...

Anglican Mysteries

If you’re on the hunt for some summer reading, my reading in the past ten years commends the remarkable niche of Anglican mystery writers....

Global Perspectives on Universal Brotherhood

Fratelli Tutti A Global Commentary Edited by William T. Cavanaugh, Carlos Mendoza Álvarez, Ikenna Ugochuwku Okafor, and Daniel Franklin Cascade Books, 360 pages, $64 Here a set of...

At the Heart of All Being

Christ the Logos of Creation: An Essay in Analogical Metaphysics By John Betz Emmaus Academic, 592 pages, $59.95 In this ambitious work, John Betz aims to reinvigorate the...

Making a Case for Environmental Responsibility

The Rev. Canon Pam Hyde reviews Creation Care Discipleship: Why Earthkeeping Is an Essential Christian Practice.

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