This is a summary of recent books read by Martin Davie, compiling his evaluations and the commendations of others. In this edition: Ultimate Engineering by Stuart Burgess. A book that works brilliantly on two levels. It shows the brilliantly sophisticated design to be found in the natural world, and in the human body in particular. It thereby debunks the claim that the bad design in nature shows that the natural world developed by chance. Ask of Old Paths: Medieval Virtues an

Why read the Puritans? It’s easy to treat these saints of yesterday simply as figures from a rather distant seventeenth-century world: men in black gowns arguing about predestination, church government, and things which happened nearly four hundred years ago. But the questions they wrestled with are often surprisingly familiar. How do you reform a church which seems only half reformed? What should Christians do when political power interferes with faithful ministry? When

(Sort of) A man sits alone downstairs late at night, bathed in the glow of his laptop screen. Everyone else is already in bed, and he should be too. What he plans to do is known only to him and the One to whom all hearts are open. He tries not to think about that as he begins to type the name of the website into the search engine. It appears as a suggestion in the drop-down menu. He hesitates. He remembers again where this path leads: to shame and despair. In a moment of self