Micro-Reviews Archive
Micro-Review: Inspiration and Incarnation (gets a website)
On April 13, 2011 In Micro-Reviews, Scripture, Theology
If the Bible is a divine book, why does it look so human? Inspiration and Incarnation, the controversial book that dared to ask and answer that question, now has a website. And while the book was written in 2005, its author, Peter Enns, continues to draw new detractors.
Author and historian, Edwin Gaustad, dies at 87
On April 5, 2011 In History, Micro-Reviews, Nonfiction Reviews
Unlike some of the revisionist histories of conservative America that have appeared more frequently in recent years, Gaustad reminds us that history has a high thread count. It is layered with many interwoven stories and not all of which are the story of Christianity.
MicroReview: Moon Over Manifest
On March 3, 2011 In Fiction Reviews, Micro-Reviews
Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool Delacorte Press, 2010 351 pages (hardcover) Available: IndieBound Amazon Powell’s I have mixed feelings about Moon Over Manifest, Clare Vanderpool’s debut novel and the most recent Newbery winner. On the one hand, I love the protagonist, twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker, whose strength of character and curiosity allow her to