Amusing Ourselves To Death, and other reviews

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• Book Review: Amusing Ourselves To Death -- “...the book was written in 1985, nearly 30 years ago. Why is this amazing? The book is just as relevant now as it was in 1985, if not more so.”
• Book Review: “Christianity And Liberalism” by J. Gresham Machen -- “J. Gresham Machen’s Christianity & Liberalism is one of the important works of all-time. Every Christian should own this book. It is that good, that insightful, that important, and that crucial...”
• Book Review: Evangelicalism Divided, by Iain Murray -- “The world will not be affected by a church that is no different from it—that has no stronger beliefs, no higher standards. God calls His church to be set apart.”
• Book Review: Lead, by Paul David Tripp -- “Tripp’s focus begins and remains on life in the community of a local church—not a huge media empire. Local churches are the focus of the Bible...”
• Darkness at Noon Review -- “Now, almost 80 years later, the Hungarian-British author’s original text is being published in English for the first time after a German student discovered a carbon copy that had been lost since 1940...”
• Faith and Toleration: A Reformation Debate Revisited -- “Snyder shows that Luther’s approach to the truth of faith seemed to open the door to toleration.”
• Faithfully Different: Why Worldview Matters -- “One pretty uncomfortable section of her book lists all the different kinds of ‘Jesuses’ people believe in...including Activist Jesus (who died to free the oppressed), Prosperity Jesus (who wants you to live your best life now), and Judge-Not Jesus (who does not want us to call each other out on our sin).”
• How Gay Marriage Really Came About -- “Despite the fact that this book is limited to discussion of the rise of the movement for the acceptance of homosexuality in America, its approach illustrates the core vulnerabilities at the heart of American Evangelical Protestantism...”
• Iain Murray on the Evangelical Search for “Academic Respectability” -- “...rather than seeing the evangelicals influence the academy, Murray suggests it has been the academy that has influenced evangelicals.”
• James Madison: America’s First Politician, by Jay Cost -- “If the universe can bear up under the weight of so many movie remakes of various Peter Parkers being bitten by slightly different radioactive spiders, there’s space enough for a few more good biographies.”
• Matthew Winzer reviews Nick Needham’s essay on the Westminster Assembly’s teaching on psalms, hymns and musical instruments -- “If, however, one were expecting to find a detailed examination of the writings of the divines, he would be sorely disappointed.”
• Review: Is Soft Totalitarianism Coming to America? -- “Dreher believes there are two factors that will play especially important roles in the rise and dominance of soft totalitarianism: the Myth of Progress that underlies the social justice ideology, and the rise of surveillance capitalism.”
• Reviewing Rod Dreher’s “The Benedict Option” -- “...we must think and pray very carefully about that virtue of balance that he develops in the book.”
• WM # 80: Review: Douglas Wilson and James R. White Debate the Text of the NT -- “They both present a “reconstruction” view of the text of the NT, as opposed to a classical Protestant, confessional view of the providential preservation of Scripture, as expressed in chapter one, paragraph eight of the Westminster Confession (and the Second London Baptist Confession).”