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David R. Stewart

David Stewart is director of library services for Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota.

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The New Westminster Dictionary of Christian Spirituality

Gordon Wakefield, the editor of this volume’s 1983 predecessor, began his introduction with the observation that the word...
June 12, 2006
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On Paradise Drive

David Brooks has been described as the “house conservative” among regular columnists for the New York ...
November 1, 2004
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Good Morning Midnight: Life and Death in the Wild

Where does a man turn, how does he live, when his hopes and dreams have failed him (or—perhaps no less commonly—when he has fail...
May 3, 2004
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Lost in translation

The upcoming 400th anniversary of the 1611 publication of the King James Bible has sparked a surge of interest in its origins....
November 28, 2003
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Ghosts of October

For many of us, Halloween is simply a matter of carving a pumpkin, arranging costumes for our kids and then accompanying them around the neighborhood for a couple of hours as they bulk up their sup...
October 31, 2003
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The Skeptic, by Terry Teachout

Most adult Americans know something about H. L. Mencken even without having read anything he wrote....
April 18, 2003
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Snobbery, by Joseph Epstein

We can be thankful that a book on this delicate subject was written by somebody other than an academic. Or a comedian....
February 7, 2003
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He Shines in All That's Fair, by Richard J. Mouw

These chapters are the written version of the author's Stob Lectures, given at Calvin Theological Seminary in 2000....
August 27, 2002
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From Anarchy to Power, by Wendy M. Grossman

Is the culture of the Web something genuinely new, or is it merely "human nature plugged-in"?...
January 29, 2002
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Help My Unbelief, by Fleming Rutledge

Fleming Rutledge's second collection of sermons (her first, The Bible and the New York Times, appeared in 1998) is presented as a thoughtful and sustained response to the plea expressed in...
August 14, 2001

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Faster, by James Gleick

Only a generation ago the settled opinion was that work would soon occupy fewer and fewer of our waking hours....
February 27, 2001
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Nurturing curiosity: A librarian's view

The emergence of the Internet and the World Wide Web as a source of information, a venue for publishing, and a forum for dialogue now defines libraries nearly as much as the more familiar milieu of...
February 7, 2001
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Reckoning with holiness

The Bible and the New York Times, by Fleming Rutledge...
December 7, 1999
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J. I. Packer: A Biography, by Alister McGrath

By Alister McGrath, J.I. Packer: A Biography. (Baker, 344 pp.)...
July 14, 1998

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