📄The Areopagus Update – Aug/Sept 2020 American CrisisCultural Marxism and the Culture War:A Christian Responseby Jefrey D. Breshears(Centre•Pointe Publishing, 2020)Available at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08DDRM6JQ The Purpose American Crisis is an incisive study and...
Book Reviews
C. S. Lewis, Tucker Carlson, and the Coronavirus Epidemic
📄The Areopagus Update – March/April 2020 Writing in the March 12, 2020 edition of the Gospel Coalition website, managing editor Matt Smethurst notes the following: “It’s now clear that COVID-19 is a deadly serious global pandemic, and all necessary precautions should...
Building a Core Library: 50 Recommendations
The following books are recommended for Christians who want to build a substantive core library that includes some of the best works in five key areas: (1) The Bible and Biblical Studies; (2) Christian History; (3) Christian Apologetics; (4) Cultural Apologetics and...
What Every Christian Should Know About the Life and Works of C. S. Lewis
📄The Areopagus Update – Jan/Feb 2018 Our Areopagus seminar for the first semester of 2018 is one of my favorite courses in our catalogue: “C. S. Lewis: The Life and Works of a ‘Mere Christian’.” As most Christians know, Lewis was an intellectual dynamo and one of the...
“The Benedict Option” A Necessary Preface
📄The Areopagus Update - Aug/Sept 2017 Our Areopagus Dinner & Dialogue series this summer focused on Rod Dreher’s new book, 'The Benedict Option". Dreher is a writer and senior editor at The American Conservative blogsite, and "The Benedict Option" is one of the...
The Most Important Christian Book of the Decade? “The Benedict Option”
📄The Areopagus Update - May/June 2017 One of the most anticipated books in recent years was released a couple of weeks ago: Rod Dreher’s The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation (Sentinel Press, 2017). This is a book that some regard...
Deconstructing “The DaVinci Code”
The Da Vinci Code is the kind of book that serious scholars tend to dismiss as unworthy of comment. If only it were true. Based on dubious scholarship and replete with factual errors, questionable assertions and crackpot conspiracy theories, the book is impressive for...