Editor’s Note: Last month and then again last week, Fox News host Glenn Beck featured as his guest, Dr. Richard Lee, pastor of First Redeemer Church in Cummings, Georgia and General Editor of “The American Patriot’s Bible”, a book which (in its own words) “intersects the...

“If your relatives are creeped out about you being an artist, tell them you’re an entrepreneur,” Luann Jennings, director of Redeemer Presbyterian Church‘s Center for Faith & Work in New York City, half-joked at Selling Yourself without Selling Out: An Introduction to Marketing...

“That’s a curse word.” My Christian friend and junior high school classmate scolded me  for using the inappropriate word–schmuck.  I had assumed it was another way to say “jerk,” but my companion corrected me.  I waited for him to smile and add the punchline,...

Plenty of folks, including Burnside on occasion, rail against the machinery of Christian music. There’s good reason to do so, since the Christian music industry at large has hardly been a catalyst for innovation and creativity. But many of Burnside’s writers have also been deeply impacted...

In the early twentieth century, Sigmund Freud became famous for asking the question, “What does a woman want?”  He concluded the problem with women was they were hysterical, and what they wanted most was to be manually stimulated to orgasm.  It was an innovative solution to women’s quandaries,...

I kind of hated Richard St. Ofle when I first started reading his autobiographical debut, No Wolf.   I turned page after page, mad at the narrator–and consequently, by virtue of the genre, the author.  From there, I quickly made the jump to the male population as a whole.  That might sound...

On the jacket of George Saunders’s most recent collection of short fiction, In Persuasion Nation, the publishers claim that the stories inside “attest to a new level of empathy and emotional conviction in Saunders’s writing.” While it’s true that these stories are empathetic and full of emotional...

Editor’s Note: Burnside contributor Chad Gibbs recently traveled to the twelve schools of the SEC to explore the intersection of faith and fandom. Chad recounts his journey in “God and Football” (Zondervan). The book is funny and insightful no matter what conference you belong to. It...

In The Church of Facebook, author and musician Jesse Rice delivers a valuable treatment on both the origins of Facebook, and the subtle but overwhelming effects Facebook has on its users. With Gladwell-esque style, Rice writes with precision and below-the-surface insight. This is not a Christian book...

Summer heat has finally stumbled upon the Pacific Northwest, and I’ve stuck myself in the basement of somebody else’s house with friends who don’t even live there for hours at a time, all for the sake of music. When I’m not writing for free and working a day job, I do what I can to compose. I...