Reviews

Each book review points out positives and negatives. As a principle, I try to understand an author’s life and see their writing through the lens of their life.

I mainly review sermons, theology, creative essays, biographies, and classic Christian living books. Occasionally I review works of fiction by Christian authors, such as the Inklings. These reviews will never include spoilers.

If a title does not have a link, it means that the review is scheduled and coming soon.

Curious about a book that’s not in this list? You are welcome to comment at the bottom and submit a request for a book review.

Anderson, John E.

Jacob and the Divine Trickster

Anonymous

The Life of John Newton

Aulén, Gustaf

Christus Victor

Batterson, Mark

The Grave Robber

Billheimer, Paul

Adventure in Adversity

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

Psalms: The Prayer Book of the Bible

Boyd, Gregory A.

Letters from a Skeptic

Boreham, F. W.

The Arrows of Desire
The Home of the Echoes
The Man Who Saved Gandhi (Lover of Life)
The Passing of John Broadbanks
Rubble & Roseleaves
When the Swans Fly High

Bounds, E. M.

Power through Prayer
Purpose in Prayer (scheduled)
The Resurrection (The Ineffable Glory)

Browning, Robert

Subject of: Robert Browning (GKC)

Buchanan, Claudius

The Star in the East

Budgen, Victor

On Fire for God: The Story of John Hus (scheduled)

Buechner, Frederick

A Crazy Holy Grace
Now and Then: A Memoir of Vocation
The Sacred Journey (scheduled)

Burrage, Henry S.

A History of the Anabaptists in Switzerland

Chamberlain, Jacob

The Cobra’s Den

Carey, William

An Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens

Carleton, George

The Life of Bernard Gilpin (1629)

Chambers, Oswald

The Shadow of an Agony
Subject of: Oswald Chambers: Abandoned to God

Chesterton, G. K.

All Things Considered
The Appetite of Tyranny
As I Was Saying
The Ballad of the White Horse
The Barbarism of Berlin
The Club of Queer Trades
The Crimes of England
Eugenics and Other Evils
Greybeards at Play
How To Help Annexation
The Innocence of Father Brown
Letters to an Old Garibaldian
Lord Kitchener
Magic: A Fantastic Comedy
Manalive
The Man Who Was Thursday
A Miscellany of Men
The Napoleon of Notting Hill
Orthodoxy
The Queen of Seven Swords
Robert Browning
Robert Louis Stevenson (1902)
St. Francis of Assisi
A Short History of England
Tennyson
Thackeray
The Trees of Pride
What I Saw in America
The Wild Knight & Other Poems
William Cobbett
Wine, Water and Song (coming soon)
The Wisdom of Father Brown (scheduled)

Cowper, William

Olney Hymns

Crawford, William T.

Girolamo Savonarola: A Prophet of Righteousness

Criswell, W. A.

Five Great Affirmations of the Bible

Deisher, Kathleen E.

Beyond the Gloesmur

Dickens, Charles

A Christmas Carol

Doke, Joseph John

Subject of: The Man Who Saved Gandhi (Lover of Life)

Duncan, Norman

Dr. Grenfell’s Parish

Edwards, Gene

Letters to a Devastated Christian

Elliot, Elisabeth

Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testimony of Jim Elliot

Elliot, Jim

Subject of: Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testimony of Jim Elliot

Endres, Mark & Tammy

When Heaven Seems Silent

Faber, F. W.

Faber’s Hymns (1894 edition)

Fahs, Sophia Lyon

Uganda’s White Man of Work

Fancourt, Samuel

What Will Be Must Be

Fisher, Len

The Perfect Swarm

Frankl, Victor

Man’s Search for Meaning

Francis of Assisi (St.)

Subject of: St. Francis of Assisi (GKC)

French, Thomas Valpy

Subject of: Heroic Bishop: The Life of French of Lahore

Gardiner, Allen Francis

Subject of: Captain Allen Gardiner of Patagonia

Gilmour, James

James Gilmour of Mongolia

Gilpin, Bernard

Subject of: All for the Best (coming soon)
Subject of: The Life of Bernard Gilpin (1629)

Grenfell, Sir Wilfred

Subject of: Dr. Grenfell’s Parish

Griffiths, Michael

Who Really Sends the Missionary?

Grylls, Bear

Mud, Sweat and Tears

Holt, Emily Sarah

All for the Best (coming soon)

Hus, John

The Letters of John Hus (coming soon)

Subject of:
Hus the Heretic (scheduled)
John Hus and the Czech Reform
On Fire for God: The Story of John Hus (scheduled)

Jackson, John

Some Reflections on Prescience

Johnson, Lois Walfrid

Freedom Seekers (series)

Leatherberry, David

Afghanistan, My Tears

Lewis, C. S.

God in the Dock
A Grief Observed
Out of the Silent Planet
Perelandra
That Hideous Strength

Liddell, Eric

Subject of: God’s Joyful Runner

MacDonald, George

The Diary of an Old Soul
Heather and Snow (The Peasant Girl’s Dream)
The Hope of the Gospel
The Miracles of Our Lord
Phantastes
Proving the Unseen
Unspoken Sermons (3 vol.)
Subject of: George MacDonald, Scotland’s Beloved Storyteller