I was reading an article from the Religious News Service talking about a new wave of atheism that isn’t completely down on religion.  Make no mistake, the so called “Atheism 3.0” still denies the existence of God, but there is some respect for the values that come from believing in God.
Bruce Sheiman is the author [...]

Something I’ve discovered in my graduate work is that secular authors who are often quite critical of Christianity have beautiful ways of talking about the transcendent or love or relationships between humans that point an arrow straight toward God (or at least, I read it that way).
Here’s an example: today I was reading Undoing Gender [...]

I recently finished John D. Caputo’s What Would Jesus Deconstruct? which was a beautiful and challenging read.  I learned a lot about what it means to really follow Jesus from reading the book, but I’d like to draw attention to the way Caputo made me think about what it means to have faith.  Look at [...]

(Phil Christman is a guest blogger for Think Christian.  He’s a grad student at the University of South Carolina working on his MFA in creative writing.)
Certain people are always saying that the age of great novels is over, that contemporary fiction just Isn’t Worth The Trouble, and I am always looking for books with which [...]

Brent Laytham is Professor of Theology and Ethics at North Park Theological Seminary in Chicago, and editor of the new book God Does Not…: Entertain, Play Matchmaker, Hurry, Demand Blood, Cure Every Illness. This book follows a 2004 book he also edited: God Is Not …: Religious, Nice, “One of Us,” An American, A Capitalist.
What [...]

In catching up with my blog reading this week, I noticed that the folks over at Reformation 21 have made a rather epic New Year’s resolution: they’re reading through John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion in 2009. They’ve got a reading schedule laid out that you can request via email, and they’re already faithfully [...]

(Thanks to Mark Main for writing this post.)
As I read this book I kept thinking about what a perfect concept and title Leonard Sweet used.  His writing style reminds me of the feeling I get when I sit down with my favorite cup of Starbuck’s coffee.  Yes, I like the coffee with all the whipped cream [...]

Vampire-queen-turned-Christian-writer Anne Rice is answering reader questions about her faith and writing at Beliefnet this week, and many of her answers (and the questions) are quite interesting. One of the obvious questions to ask is how, from her current vantage point in the church, she looks back at the often lurid and grisly vampire novels [...]

How should sin be portrayed in Christian stories and novels?
Author L.B. Graham has posted an essay arguing that the depiction of sin in Christian fiction must be more than moralism. The full essay is worth reading, but here’s a short excerpt:
I’m constantly surprised at how often fictional stories are judged to be Christian or not, [...]

It’s Banned Books Week! The American Library Association has more information about the significance of this week, as well as a list of the 100 most frequently challenged books of 1990-2000.
In discussing the list, Chris and I noted that while the list contains plenty of books of dubious literary value, a good number of the [...]