Evangelical Christianity is not known as a Christian tradition deeply engaged in the life of the mind, either in its intellection openness to the complexities of either Scripture or science. It's hard to over-estimate the impact that his has had both on our ability to love God with all of our mind and our ability to meaningfully connect the good news with thinking people who don't know and love Jesus. But what if we devoted ourselves to being deeply engaged with the complexities and ambiguities of the Scriptures and especially their relationship with science? How would that affect our ability, not just to love God, but to represent him well in His world?

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Many people today, especially among emerging generations, don't resonate with the church and organized Christianity. Yet often they are still spiritually open and fascinated with Jesus. They Like Jesus But Not The Church explores six of the most common objections and misunderstandings emerging generations have about the church and Christianity, emerging from conversations and interviews the church has had with unchurched twenty and thirty-somethings at coffee houses. Each chapter provides the biblical answers, gives examples of how churches are addressing these objection, and concludes with suggestions, discussion questions, and resource listings.

Claiming that "the scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind," historian Noll sets out to trace the reasons for what he sees as the great divorce between intellect and piety in North American Evangelical Christianity. Noll focuses on politics and science to explore ways in which the mindlessness "scandal" has created a lack of adequate Christian thinking about the world. Though, he is hopeful that the work of contemporary Evangelical scholars will recover a respect for intellect. This is required reading for those seeking to understand the often peculiar relationship between Evangelical religion and secular culture.

Originally published in 1985, Neil Postman’s groundbreaking polemic about the corrosive effects of television on our politics and public discourse has been hailed as a twenty-first-century book published in the twentieth century. Now, with television joined by more sophisticated electronic media—from the Internet to cell phones to DVDs—it has taken on even greater significance. Amusing Ourselves to Death is a prophetic look at what happens when politics, journalism, education, and even religion become subject to the demands of entertainment. It is also a blueprint for regaining control of our media, so that they can serve our highest goals.