Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism
Baker Academic, 2006, 156 pp, $17.99,www.bakeracademic.comChristians have been wrestling with postmodernism for decades. And this book shows there’s still some wrestling to be done with this influential i...
You Converted Me: The Confessions of St. Augustine
Paraclete Press, 2006, 232 pages, $16.95,www.paracletepress.comIntroduction and notes by Tony JonesWe live in an age of celebrity memoirs and tabloid confessions. This autobiographical trend started 16 centurie...
Teens Speak on Family Matters: Truth, Tension, Trials, Triumphs
Edited Laurie DelgattoSaint Mary’s Press, 2006, 64, $9.95,www.smp.orgMore often than not, we in the “adult world” overlook the significance and insight of the young mind. Teens Speak, a collec...
That Sinking Feeling
Kregel Publications, 2006, 121 pp., $5.99,www.kregel.comThis whimsical mystery — the first installment in the Blue Water Mysteries series — provides great reading for young readers. Audrey Barring...
Friends for a Season: Daisy Chains
Bethany House, 2006, 226 pp, $10.99,www.bethanyhouse.comOnce you get past the clichés and brand-name dropping that constitutes the first half of this novel, you find a book for teenage girls that addresses...
Too Stressed to Think? A Teen Guide to Staying Sane When Life Makes You Crazy
Free Spirit, 2005, 163 pp., $14.95,www.freespirit.comTeenagers’ lives are tough. The stress of dealing with school, friends, boyfriends/girlfriends, sex, drugs, peer pressure, and sexual orientation can b...
How Do I Help a Hurting Friend?
Baker Books, 2006, 160 pp., $13.99,www.bakerbooks.com“People have problems, what do people who are struggling with problems need? Just as God did not promise to solve and cure all of our problems but to&...
Break Through! The Bible for Young Catholics
St. Mary’s Press, 2006, 1908 pages, $18.95,www.smp.orgEditor Brian Singer-Towns brings a respect for the Bible and a quarter-century’s worth of youth ministry to the task of creating a Bible for Cat...
The Danger of Raising Nice Kids: Preparing Our Children to Change Their World
InterVarsity Press, 192 pp., $16.00,www.ivpress.com“We are raising a generation with perfect teeth and twisted hearts... Being nice will not equip our children to be effective... help them become kingdom ...
Better Dads, Stronger Sons
Revell, 2006, 238 pp.,$24.95,www.revellbooks.comThis book takes a look at raising sons form the perspective of fathers. Johnson paints an inspiring vision for raising a boy to be a man of God, and he focuses on...