A Conversation with LeRoy Lawson
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,...
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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 ArticleGrowth, Grace, and a Writer I Like
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,...
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 ArticleReconsidering Lawrence, Rediscovering Conversation, and Recently Recommended
By LeRoy Lawson Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East Scott Anderson New York: Anchor, 2014 Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital...
View ArticleA President, a Poet, and Prescriptions for the Church
By LeRoy Lawson Eisenhower in War and Peace Jean Edward Smith New York: Random House, 2012 For All of Us, One Today: An Inaugural Poet’s Journey Richard Blanco Boston: Beacon Press, 2013 Why Nobody...
View ArticleThese Speakers Are Writers
By LeRoy Lawson Unashamed: Drop the Baggage, Pick Up Your Freedom, Fulfill Your Destiny Christine Caine Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2016 The Scent of Water: Grace for Every Kind of Broken Naomi Zacharias...
View ArticleDivine Encounters, Good Good-byes, Genes Seen
By LeRoy Lawson What’s in a Phrase? Pausing Where Scripture Gives You Pause Marilyn Chandler McEntyre Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2014 A Faithful Farewell: Living Your Last Chapter with Love Marilyn...
View ArticleThe Devil, the Disbeliever, and the Politicians
By LeRoy Lawson Reviving Old Scratch: Demons and the Devil for Doubters and the Disenchanted Richard Beck Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2016 Unapologetic: Why, Despite Everything, Christianity Can Still...
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...
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