Media, Journalism, and Communication: A Student’s Guide

Dr. Read Mercer Schuchardt’s latest book, Media, Journalism, and Communication: A Student’s Guide, is available from Crossway and Amazon starting March 31.  

Need Help with the New BookBook?

You may have heard about IKEA’s innovative move to release its latest catalog as a BookBook: If you have any trouble operating it, just call the Medieval Help Desk:

Girl with a Gadget

Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s A Young Girl Reading (1776) resides in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and is perhaps one of the most familiar paintings of a girl reading coming to us from the eighteenth century. When it was painted America was in revolt and France was on the verge of doing so. Despite […]

How the Christian Media Industry Made “Bible” into a Category Instead of a Proper Name

Tonight, after dinner, baths, and a lot of screaming, my wife and I will settle down next to our toddlers and attempt to inculcate them into the Christian mythos telling them the stories of Abraham, Rahab, Paul, Silas, and the rest. Sometimes we read from our own leather-bound Bibles, but most nights we use books […]

A Reader

Take her, for instance, as she sits, her legs folded beneath her on the couch’s worn brown corduroy, presently transfixed by the window’s rainy striations and fingering absently the olive weave cover of the book on her lap, its pages splayed like a gaping mouth—can she realize she is its aspiration? See her lift her […]

Ellen Rose’s “On Reflection”: A Review

Ellen Rose, On Reflection: An Essay on Technology, Education, and the Status of Thought in the Twenty-first Century. Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2013 124p $29.95 (CDN) Who Ellen Rose is Professor of Education at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton. For slightly more than the last decade, she has taught graduate students and written widely […]

Review of D. Brent Layham’s “iPod, YouTube, Wii Play: Theological Engagements with Entertainment”

Over on the website reformation21, one of Second Nature‘s contributors and editorial board members, T. David Gordon, recently reviewed D. Brent Layham’s new book iPod, YouTube, Wii Play: Theological Engagements with Entertainment. Gordon has glowing praise for the book: I had hardly finished reading this book before I knew I would eagerly read it again. There is so […]

How the West really lost God? By mediating sex, argues new book

Secularization wasn’t the inevitable result of the Enlightenment, it was the result of the widespread acceptance of a new media. More specifically, the mediating of the one flesh union with the technology of contraception. Or so argues Mary Eberstadt in her provocative new book that is sure to spark great debate, How the West Really Lost […]

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