Saving Leonardo: A Call to Resist the Secular Assault on Mind, Morals, and Meaning
10 best books like Saving Leonardo: A Call to Resist the Secular Assault on Mind, Morals, and Meaning (Nancy R. Pearcey): Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning, Evangelism & the Sovereignty of God, Hope Heals: A True Story of Overwhelming Loss and an Overcoming Love, Favorite Poems Old and New, Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child, Art & the Bible, Ideas Have Consequences, Reading Between the Lines, Angels in the Architecture: A Protestant Vision for Middle Earth, Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent
Author | Douglas Wilson |
ISBN | 0891075836 |
Public education in America has run into hard times. Even many within the system admit that it is failing. While many factors contribute, Douglas Wilson lays much blame on the idea that education can take place in a moral vacuum. It is not possible for education to be nonreligious, deliberately excluding...
Evangelism & the Sovereignty of God
If God is in control of everything, can Christians sit back and not bother to evangelize? Or does active evangelism imply that God is not really sovereign at all? J.I. Packer shows in this classic study how both of these attitudes are false. In a careful review of the biblical evidence, he shows how a right...
Hope Heals: A True Story of Overwhelming Loss and an Overcoming Love
Author | Katherine Wolf |
ISBN | 0310344549 |
When all seems lost, where can hope be found?
Katherine and Jay married right after college and sought adventure far from home in Los Angeles, CA. As they pursued their dreams, they planted their lives in the city and in their church community. Their son, James, came along unexpectedly in the...
Author | Helen Josephine Ferris |
ISBN | 0385062494 |
Long long ago this book was gifted to my family by a friend of my father who was in the publishing business. I have many fond memories reading poems from this 500+ page volume. Some are funny, some are famous, some are esoteric and some are easy to grok. It's a collection that a logical numbers person like...
Author | Anthony M. Esolen |
ISBN | 1935191888 |
I tend to enjoy most books I read (easily entertained, I guess), but don't let my low book standards detract from my statement that this is one of the best books I've ever read. While it appears to be a book on child-raising (and sort of is), I'd recommend it to anyone, parent or not. The author is clearly brilliant,...
Author | Francis A. Schaeffer |
ISBN | 0877844437 |
The lordship of Christ should include an interest in the arts," writes Francis Schaeffer. "A Christian should use these arts to the glory of God, not just as tracts, mind you, but as things of beauty to the praise of God." Many Christians, wary of creating graven images, have steered clear of artistic...
Author | Richard M. Weaver |
ISBN | 0226876802 |
In what has become a classic work, Richard M. Weaver unsparingly diagnoses the ills of our age and offers a realistic remedy. He asserts that the world is intelligible and that man is free. The catastrophes of our age the catastrophes of our age are the product of unintelligent choice and the cure lies...
Author | Gene Edward Veith Jr. |
ISBN | 0891075828 |
Here is a guidebook for those who want to learn how to recognize books that are spiritually and aesthetically good–to cultivate good literary taste. Gene Edward Veith presents basic information to help book lovers understand what they read–from the classics to the bestsellers. He explains how...
Author | Douglas M. Jones III |
ISBN | 1885767404 |
Christianity presents a glorious vision of culture, a vision overflowing with truth, beauty, and goodness. It's a vision that stands in stark conflict with the anemic modern (and postmodern) perspectives that dominate contemporary life. Medieval Christianity began telling a beautiful story...
Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent
Author | N.D. Wilson |
ISBN | 0849920094 |
A poetic portrait of faith, futility, and the joy of this mortal life.
In this astoundingly unique book, bestselling author N. D. Wilson reminds each of us that to truly live we must recognize that we are dying. Every second we create more of our past—more decisions, more breathing, more love...
Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl: Wide-Eyed Wonder in God's Spoken World
Author | N.D. Wilson |
ISBN | 0849920078 |
Product Description A visual, poetic exploration of the narrative nature of the world and the personality of the Poet behind it all. When Nate Wilson looks at the world around him, he asks "What is this place? Why is this place? Who approved it? Am I supposed to take it seriously?" What could such an outlandish,...
You Who? Why You Matter and How to Deal With It
Author | Rachel Jankovic |
ISBN | 1947644475 |
If "Who am I?" is the question you're asking, Rachel Jankovic doesn't want you to "find yourself" or "follow your heart." Those lies are nothing to the confidence, freedom, and clarity of course that come with knowing what is actually essential about you. And the answer to that question is at once less...
7 Men: And the Secret of Their Greatness
Author | Eric Metaxas |
ISBN | 1595554696 |
In Seven Men, New York Times best-selling author Eric Metaxas presents seven exquisitely crafted short portraits of widely known—but not well understood—Christian men, each of whom uniquely showcases a commitment to live by certain virtues in the truth of the gospel.
Written...
Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist
Author | Karen Swallow Prior |
ISBN | 1400206251 |
With a foreword by Eric Metaxas, best-selling author of "Bonhoeffer" and "Amazing Grace."
The enthralling biography of the woman writer who helped end the slave trade, changed Britain's upper classes, and taught a nation how to read.
The history-changing reforms of Hannah More...