More books reviewed …

Noel Piper discusses the biography of Brian Gault, who was born without hands after his mother took the drug Thalidomide – Look, No Hands!: The Inspiring Story of Brian Gault:

“Just as with any other community of people, “the disabled” are not a homogenous, one-attitude-fits-all group.  My natural assumption would be that a man with no arms is disabled. But that would be jumping to conclusions. I need to wait and find out from him who he is and through him how God is working.”

Adrian Warnock talks about The Atonement Debate: Papers from the London Symposium on the Theology of Atonement.

Adam Walker Cleaveland finds grounds (eh-hem) to appreciate Ed Cyzewski’s Coffeehouse Theology: Reflecting on God in Everyday Life, but warns that schooled theologians may find it a little, umm … weak.

And at the Preaching Today blog, Brian Lowey reviews Kary Oberbrunner’s The Fine Line: Re-envisioning the Gap between Christ and Culture:

“This book has a lot to say to us as Christians, but I would contend it has a lot to say to us as preachers. How do we help people navigate the complexity of being “in the world but not of it?” How can we illustrate that complexity in our own preaching—in our weekly opportunity to speak of culture, speak to culture, speak into culture, speak of a new, transformed culture, or even, as Andy Crouch says, speak in such a way that we create culture?”