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• A Review of Mickey Winter’s book on The First Fifty Baptist Churches in Kentucky -- “Winter says his love of history began 20 years ago after meeting Jeff Faggart, a pastor in Rockwell, N.C., who is founder of the Baptist History Preservation Society.”
• A Response to a Review of ‘No Shortcut to Success’ -- “Critiquing books we don’t agree with has a noble history. But when denominational leaders call on people not to read, distribute, or teach from a book they don’t agree with, that practice has a far more checkered history.”
• Another Review of Mickey Winter’s book on The First Fifty Baptist Churches in Kentucky -- “This book is not just about the churches. It includes biographical sketches of many of the early preachers.”
• Book Review. No Shortcut to Success: A Manifesto for Modern Missions -- “...our concerns with how Rhodes misrepresents his sources outweigh the book’s benefits. These misrepresentations are so egregious that we are compelled to recommend that no one read, distribute, or teach from this book.”
• Book Review: “All Thy Lights Combine” -- “In All Thy Lights Combine, a work that owes its title to this thought-provoking poem, Ephraim Radner and David Ney have sought to demonstrate the riches that have been figurally unearthed within the Anglican tradition. Why this particular tradition?”
• Book Review: Gisbertus Voetius on God, Freedom, and Contingency -- “Beck’s book is divided into three parts. Beck spends the first part of the book contextualizing Voetius’ theology.”
• Comments on Dr. H. D. Williams’ Book, The Miracle of Inspiration -- “I am thankful for Dr. Williams’ stands for Biblical Baptist doctrine and Biblical, militant fundamentalism in many areas. I appreciate his sincerity and his desire to oppose the strange, the weird, and the heretical notions perpetuated by Peter Ruckman and his supporters...”
• Review of Textual Criticism and the Bible, by Anderson and Widder -- “Amy Anderson and Wendy Widder...provide a text easy to read and understand that gradually leads to more and more complex matters of method and approach...”
• Scroll with Me in Your Bibles? How Bible Apps Are Changing Today’s Christians -- “While the book’s history of Bible software development is interesting, the latter half of the book, in which Dyer presents his own field study of evangelicals and Bible tech, is consistently revealing.”
• The Good and the Bad of Brevard Childs’s Canonical Criticism -- “Among critical scholars, i.e., those who employed historical-critical methods of interpretation, Childs championed a new (and better) approach to the Bible.”
• To the Judicious and Impartial Reader. Renihan Review: Riddle, Davidson, Clevenger, & Loomis -- “Renihan begins by noting that though we call this the 1689 Confession, there is no extant evidence that the Confession was published in 1689. It seems to have acquired this designation because it was subscribed at the 1689 London General Assembly.”
• Today’s Christian & the Church’s Bible: A Time to Return to the Authorized Version by Theodore P. Letis, PhD -- “In this work, Letis offers a corresponding defense of the Authorized Version, the classic Protestant translation of the Bible in English based upon the Received Text.”
• What About Unconditional Respect? -- “It comes with a certain disclaimer, but I recommend the book, Love & Respect: The Love She Most Desires; The Respect He Desperately Needs by Emmerson Eggerichs. ”