An Annotated List of My Latest Finds
By LeRoy Lawson The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells London: Penguin Books, 2007 (first published in book form in 1898) Science and Religion in Quest of Truth John Polkinghorne New Haven: Yale University...
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By LeRoy Lawson Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership: Seeing God in the Crucible of Ministry Ruth Haley Barton Downers Grove: IVP Books, 2008 Lila: A Novel Marilynne Robinson New York: Farrar,...
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Roy Lawson, 2015 North American Christian Convention speaker, spoke with Mark Taylor about how and why the NACC has changed and prospered and how an older Christian can guard against depression,...
View ArticleClaiming the Right Identity
By Mark A. Taylor It is easy, too easy for me to make my identity all about me. Can you relate? For example, many of us take identity from our family relationships. (Whose son are you? Which child is...
View ArticlePowerful, Prolific, and the Professor
By LeRoy Lawson Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World Jack Weather ford New York: Broadway Books, 2005 Surprised by Scripture: Engaging Contemporary Issues N. T. Wright New York: HarperOne,...
View ArticleIs Religion the Problem?
By LeRoy Lawson Can We Be Good Without God? Biology, Behavior, and the Need to Believe Robert Beckman Amherst: Prometheus Books, 2002 Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence Karen...
View ArticleNew Testament Church, New Insights on Ministry
By LeRoy Lawson Renewal for Mission: A Concise History of Christian Churches and Churches of Christ W. Dennis Helsabeck Jr., Gary Holloway, Douglas A. Foster Abilene: Abilene Christian University...
View ArticleCompetitors, Charismatics, and Caregivers
By LeRoy Lawson Birdmen: The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies Lawrence Goldstone New York: Ballantine Books, 2014 Prototype: What Happens When You Discover You’re...
View ArticlePursuing Unity, Revisiting Assumptions, Winning with Winsomeness
By LeRoy Lawson Disunity in Christ: Uncovering the Hidden Forces That Keep Us Apart Christena Cleveland Downers Grove: IVP Books/Intervarsity Press, 2013 Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the...
View ArticleEvangelical Warning, Improbable Convert, Uncommon Ministry
By LeRoy Lawson The Great Evangelical Recession: 6 Factors That Will Crash the American Church . . . and How to Prepare John S. Dickerson Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2013 Good God, Lousy World, and Me:...
View ArticleWrestling with Faith and Disagreeing on the Bible
By LeRoy Lawson My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer Christian Wiman New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013 The Civil War as a Theological Crisis (The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in...
View ArticleEmpires, Philosophies, Biases, and Jesus
AUDIO BOOKS I, Claudius Robert Graves The Inexplicable Universe: Unsolved Mysteries Neil deGrasse Tyson History’s Greatest Voyages of Exploration Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius The History of Ancient Rome...
View ArticleLife and Death, Racism, and Responsibility
By LeRoy Lawson Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery Henry Marsh New York: Thomas Dunne, 2015 The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration Isabel Wilkerson...
View ArticleLawlessness and Poverty, Freakonomics, and Strategies for Succession
By LeRoy Lawson The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence Gary A. Haugen and Victor Boutros New York: Oxford University Press, 2014 Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores...
View Article6 Pointers for Leaders Getting Ready to Retire
By LeRoy Lawson While admitting there is no sure-fire formula for success in succession, I have learned a few things from retiring and watching others retire. Here’s my advice. “I wanted you to do...
View ArticleMiracles, Marvels, and the Vulnerable Minister
By LeRoy Lawson The Miracle of Dunkirk Walter Lord New York: Open Road Media; for Kindle, 2012 The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon Brad Stone New York: Little, Brown and Co., 2013...
View ArticleCar Talk, Gay Marriage, and the Death Journey
By LeRoy Lawson The Reckoning David Halberstam Available via Kindle; first published in 1986 God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships Matthew Vines New York:...
View ArticleDiscovery and the High Cost of Finding
By LeRoy Lawson How Dante Can Save Your Life: The Life Changing Wisdom of History’s Greatest Poem Rod Dreher New York: Regan Arts, 2015 Water to Wine: Some of My Story Brian Zahnd Spello Press, 2016...
View ArticleTo Kill or to Keep an Intriguing Idea?
By LeRoy Lawson This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress John Brockman, editor New York: Harper Perennial, 2015 The Hunt for Vulcan: . . . And How Albert Einstein Destroyed a...
View ArticleAn Annotated List of My Latest Finds
By LeRoy Lawson The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells London: Penguin Books, 2007 (first published in book form in 1898) Science and Religion in Quest of Truth John Polkinghorne New Haven: Yale University...
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