This Week's Substacks

Good day on a summery day in Chicagoland! Each Sunday I do what I can to indicate the topics for discussion, and today is no different. So here we go.

But if you have some books you’d like me to consider discussing on this Substack, speak up in the comments below. I’ve made the comments available for all.

I read a fascinating book last week by Jon Ward called Testimony. Ward, senior correspondent at Yahoo! News, walks us through his journey from C.J. Mahaney’s church to … well, you’ll have to join us Monday for a sketch of his wonderful book.

Tuesday, now that we have sketched each of the chapters in Isaac Sharp’s The Other Evangelicals, we want to have (yet another, but different, I promise) discussion of what makes a person an evangelical and who gets to decide.

Wednesday, back to Daniel Hummel’s fascinating and careful study of how it is that Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins could write what they did, and still sell millions of copies. Hummel walks us through the systematizing of dispensationalism and how it did and did not ride the waves of fundamentalism.

Thursday will be a special post by Laura Tarro about church planting, and I expect Mike Glenn to post a pastoral reflection Friday.

Please join us.