Book Review: The Hole in Our Holiness

January 24, 2021.Reading time 2 minutes.

In The Hole in Our Holiness: Filling the Gap between Gospel Passion and the Pursuit of Godliness (Crossway, 2012), Kevin DeYoung argues that working hard to be more like God in our moral character or “pursuing Godliness” is not legalism and antithetical to the gospel but rather a necessary expression of “gospel passion.” He rightly […]

Book Review: Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics.

July 10, 2020.Reading time 7 minutes.

Ultimately, Douthat’s solution strikes me as one more version of the resistance that he rightly demonstrates to have failed in the Graham/Shaeffer era.