Book Reviews

Gerald Sittser’s book connects the dots between the “old” and “new” ways of being the people of God.

Written by practitioners, teachers, and theologians, this book offers hope for children through establishing a biblical framework that counteracts the secular devaluing of children.

Schwartz writes from field experience and more than twenty years of doing seminars on “dependency.”

In this book, Allan Anderson seeks to identify the essential characteristics that produced the unprecedented worldwide growth of Pentecostalism by analyzing its origins.

This takes Western Christians into the lives of Christians and Muslim Background Believers (MBBs) in the Middle East.

Based on three years of participant observation and interviews, Smilde explores the reasons why some men in Latin American convert to evangelicalism and others don’t given similar backgrounds and opportunities to hear the gospel.

Drawing from the experiences and writings of over thirty-five individuals, Rad Zdero has compiled a massive book with chapters addressing house churches from a multitude of angles.

In this relatively slim volume, Ron Sider and Heidi Unruh have collected a cornucopia of articles targeted at the uninitiated but well-meaning churchgoer to demystify poverty in America and its impact on children.

In this book, the third in his trilogy on contemporary Christianity, Jenkins turns his focus to Europe, which Pope John Paul II calls “eldest daughter of the Church.”

What is new and groundbreaking about Miller and Yamamori’s new study is the balance provided by their subtitle: The New Face of Christian Social Engagement.