Banned Any Good Books Lately?

For the last 14 years, I have enjoyed teaching philosophy and ethics. Where else can you get paid to sit around and reflect upon the significance of ideas? If philosophers understand and agree upon nothing else, it is this axiom: Ideas are dangerous things. Ideas are...

Books That Changed My Life and Ministry

A fellow pastor emailed me with some kind words, and a suggestion – blog about the 10 books that changed my life and ministry. Of course, the Bible goes without saying, but I said it anyway to avoid unnecessary comments on its absence from this list. And I’m not...

On Finding a Good Book Title

When looking to write a book, of all the problems and headaches involved, none is more pronounced than finding a great title. When I wrote my book on the life and work of Lao She, I should have left his name off the title. No one can pronounce it and the rest of the...

The Unsatisfied Womb

My choice for the title of the book I just read is the “Unsatisfied Womb.” This is one of the sub titles found in the work. The actual title is Be Fruitful And Multiply by Nancy Campbell. Vision Forum in San Antonio, Texas published the book in 2003. It is...

Trespassers Will Be Baptized

“Trespassers Will Be Baptized” is the creative and whimsical title of a new book written by Elizabeth Emerson Hancock Trende, known more affectionately by us at Central Baptist Church as Emy, daughter of Greg and Sharon Hancock. Emy’s book is a...