We’ve all heard the idea that business is about being greedy, exploiting workers, and destroying the environment. Well, Theodore Roosevelt Malloch, Yale researcher, disagrees. He has written Doing Virtuous Business: The Remarkable Success of Spiritual Enterprise to show that successful business depends on a civilization’s ‘spiritual capital’, the sum of values and ideas, derived from […]
Reviews: Nonfiction
Review: Salt in His Blood: The Life of Michael De Ruyter
Take a feisty, uncontrollable boy (yes, kids were handfuls in the 1600’s, too!) and send him to sea with a Bible. Then watch as God uses a lifetime of experience to turn this street-fighting, steeple-climbing, wanna-be sailor into man of wisdom, godliness, and bravery. This is the story of one of the great admirals of […]
Review: Debt-Free U by Zac Bissonnette
Here are two alarming facts: Most university graduates have a huge student loan debt that negatively impacts their lives for many, many years. Most parents do not have enough money to give their children an expensive university education without seriously jeopardizing their own financial well-being. Few would argue, though, that young people should avoid college […]
Review: Stuck, a Bible Study by Jennie Allen
Many of us are ‘stuck’ in various places in our lives. We may be Christians, but we don’t understand how to apply God’s Word to our everyday struggles. This leaves us in despair and greatly hinders our service to God. Jennie Allen, a wife, mother, and seminary-trained Bible teacher, has prepared this relevant, practical, and […]
Review: How to Read a Book by Adler and Van Doren
So now your children know how to read. Congratulations! That’s a major step, but does it mean that their reading instruction finished? Not at all, we’ve found. How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading teaches the average reader how to understand, analyze, and learn from books. It takes students beyond […]