At the risk of being self-aggrandizing, I am happy to share that my new book, The Gospel and the Mind: Recovering and Shaping the Intellectual Life, will be published this November with Crossway. It is currently available for pre-order at Crossway's web page, and at Amazon. The book is centered in an observation and a question. The observation: wherever the gospel goes the academy follows. That is, there appears to be an inextricable link between the Christian gospel and the flowering of learning. The question: why? When the gospel takes hold in a culture, it inevitably leads to intellectual inquiry, the quest for truth, and a robust intellectual life. If this is true, we should expect that when the gospel loses sway in a culture there is an increased confusion about the possibility of knowledge, and about the importance or even possibility of a viable intellectual life.