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Apr 26, 2013

Our spring books issue's reviews include Stanley Hauerwas on David Gushee, Shirley Hershey Showalter on Sonia Sotomayor, Ralph Wood on Rowan Williams and more.

Carry On, Warrior

Thoughts on Life Unarmed

by Glennon Melton

The Girl Got Up

A Cruciform Memoir

by Rachel M. Srubas

Carry On, Warrior and The Girl Got Up

Spring books

Apr 26, 2013 reviewed by Katherine Willis Pershey

Shortly after Glennon Melton was plucked from obscurity thanks to a series of enormously viral blog posts, Scribner beat out nine other major publishers in the bidding for her first book, Carry On, Warrior.

Sarah Osborn’s World

The Rise of Evangelical Christianity in Early America

by Catherine A. Brekus

Sarah Osborn’s World, by Catherine A. Brekus

Spring books

Apr 26, 2013 reviewed by John G. Turner

Catherine Brekus introduces us to a disturbing, heartbreaking and improbably inspiring life. Sarah Osborn’s early years were an unending series of afflictions made worse by the austere Calvinism of her family and church. Born in England in 1714, Sarah emigrated to America with her parents, who settled in Rhode Island.

God’s Hotel

A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine

by Victoria Sweet

God’s Hotel, by Victoria Sweet

Spring books

Apr 25, 2013 reviewed by Samuel Wells

Laguna Honda sounds like a car, but it’s a hospital. It’s an alms­house in San Francisco, a place of refuge for several thousand people.

The Lion’s World

A Journey into the Heart of Narnia

by Rowan Williams

The Lion’s World, by Rowan Williams

Spring books

Apr 25, 2013 reviewed by Ralph C. Wood

Who would have thought that a new book on C. S. Lewis could bring fresh, even revolutionary insight to perhaps the most overstudied Christian writer in the anglophone world? The Lion’s World is such a book.