Books

The most hopeful message in Green­houses of Hope is implicit: your church doesn't have to be large, suburban, white or wealthy--or even to have an established youth program--in order for ministry with young people to flourish.

Rob Bell fights every impulse in our culture to domesticate Jesus, reminding readers that Christians do not believe in Christianity; they believe in the Christ who wants to "draw all people" to himself.

"I wanted to open a bookstore that would contain the best of what had been thought and written," says Warren Farha of Eighth Day Books. It's "an impossible goal, but that was the guiding telos of the store."

Our spring books issue includes the following annotated lists of top new titles: Kathleen O'Connor on Old Testament, Amy Plantinga Pauw on theology and Brent Laytham on ethics.

Our spring books issue includes annotated lists of top titles on religion and the nation's founders, religion and the Civil War, evangelism and youth ministry.

Our spring books issue's reviews include Jason Byassee on David Ford, Shirley Showalter on Carlos Eire, Dennis O'Brien on Terry Eagleton, LaVonne Neff on Elias Aboujaoude and others.