The Hammer of God. By Bo Geirtz. Minneapolis: Augsburg Books, 2005. Reviewed by Matthew Claridge Within the past few months, the Gospel Coalition (here and here) brought to the attention of the evangelical world a work of fiction entitled The Hammer of God by Bo Giertz (1905-1998), who served as a bishop in the Lutheran [...]

Memoirs of an Ordinary Pastor: The Life and Reflections of Tom Carson. By D. A. Carson. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2008. By Reid Ferguson “Memoirs of an Ordinary Pastor” is a war story. It has the cast about it that all war stories do. Bitter-sweetness pervades. There is tragedy. And there is no “jump up and [...]