Books A Review of “Eating Disorders” by Mark Shaw 20 Mar 2018 Counseling books can often make problems and overcoming those problems seem simplistic. It's not always the fault of the authors; books themselves can never truly be comprehensive and they can…
Books A Review of “The Unquenchable Flame” by Michael Reeves 5 Mar 2018 Writing an overview of major historical movement is not easy to do well. The Reformation spanned several decades, several continents, and shook Europe to its core. It involved multiple key…
Books A Review of “The End of Memory” by Miroslav Volf 26 Feb 2018 Is it possible to truly forgive and forget the evils committed against us? This is a significant question and the focus of Miroslav Volf's 2006 work on the ethics of…
Books A Review of “Trauma & Grace” by Serene Jones 19 Feb 2018 "How do people whose hearts and minds have been wounded by violence, come to feel and know the redeeming power of God's grace (viii)?" That's the overall question that drives…
Books A Review of “A Small Book About A Big Problem” by Edward Welch 5 Feb 2018 There are thousands of books about anger. Even from a Biblical counseling perspective there are many; in fact Ed Welch's colleague David Powlison just recently wrote a phenomenal one, Good…
Books A Review of “Feeling Unreal” by Daphne Simeon and Jeffrey Abugel 29 Jan 2018 Have you ever had a moment where you thought, "I can't believe I did that." We can probably all relate to that feeling of surprise. Imagine, however, that you feel…
Books A Review of “Embodied Hope” by Kelly Kapic 22 Jan 2018 Books on suffering are not infrequently published. This given fact of human experience always warrants further discussion and thought, and yet most of what is written tends to focus on…
Books A Review of “Reset” by David Murray 18 Jan 2018 I didn't know I was headed for burnout. I just felt exhausted and frustrated. I had taken on more than I should have, filling up my schedule with every conceivable…
Books… Best Books of 2017 26 Dec 2017 Here are my favorite books from 2017: 1. Descriptions and Prescriptions: A Biblical Perspective on Psychiatric Diagnoses and Medications by Michael Emlet Christians have tended towards one of two extremes as…
Books A Review of “In the Aftermath” by Pamela Gannon and Beverly Moore 11 Dec 2017 Moving from theology to life is difficult. All of us know something of the gap between what we say we believe and the way we live, and complex suffering tends…
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