An Uncommon Guide, and other reviews

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• An Uncommon Guide to Retirement: Finding God’s Purpose for the Next Season of Life -- "Jeff Haanen looks biblically and practically at the need for rest and purpose in retirement."
• Book Review: A Scottish Christian Heritage, by Iain Murray -- "This book is a wonderful devotional tool for the pastor tempted to feel discouraged at the small size of his flock or the seeming lack of fruit in his preaching."
• Book Review: Confronting Christianity -- "McLaughlin uses stories from her own life and others to illustrate key points...Her grasp of the culture wars that contend with Christianity are second to none."
• Book Review: Mere Calvinism, by Jim Orrick -- "This book would would make an excellent “go-to” resource for new members wanting to explore Calvinism."
• Book Review: Side by Side, by Ed Welch -- "Just because you are a pastor does not mean you are good at recognizing your own neediness or being there for others when they are needy."
• Book Review: The Blue Parakeet -- "But my biggest hesitation regarding The Blue Parakeet is the way that ”authority” is described as an inferior “framing principle” for the way we look at the Bible."
• Progressives and Their Imaginary Constitution -- "What the Constitution Means to Me does not offer any particularly damning evidence against the Constitution but the reaction of its audience is pretty damning against liberals."
• Review: My Father Left Me Ireland -- "Dougherty shows that the Irish nationalists of yesteryear...had something real we lack, something that ought to quicken the heart."
• Review of the Book Signature in the Cell by Stephen C. Meyer -- "Meyer not only shows that chance and natural law can’t supply the information content in DNA but that a designing intelligence can."
• Secular Music in Shape Notes, by David Warren Steel -- "It’s still a mystery to me why shape notes didn’t catch on, in the whole wide world, but especially in America where they were invented."