It’s an interesting time in history to be reading Beth Allison Barr’s "The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth."
Articles published in Books
Reviews of important books—classic and contemporary.
Caught in a Web: A Review of A World Without Email
Early in my teaching career, a mentor told me that he thought being a professor was much harder now than when he started, because he now spent several hours “doing email” each day.
The Picture of Purity: A Review of Talking Back to Purity Culture
Many of us remember the 90s and what has become known as “purity culture.” It was a time of promoting abstinence, purity rings, purity pledges, and purity balls.
When War is the World: A Review of Missionaries
God’s love, he says, is seen here, in this suffering of Christ, in this bleeding wound, a suffering which remains in the midst of violence but is not consumed by it. With this contradiction, Phil Klay opens his premiere novel Missionaries, a work about the ways in which war is exported and propagated, and ultimately transfigures the world.
Twin Poles: A Review of Bavinck
According to this reading, Bavinck’s writings supposedly reveal the mind of a highly compartmentalized thinker whose reformed “Dr. Jekyll” is frequently overpowered by a modernist “Mr. Hyde” (depending on your worldview, you might wish to identify these personae the other way around).
Recovering a Grammar for the Soul: A Review of The Logic of the Body
If you’ve ever tried to kick an addiction, go on a diet, or engage in any other significant rewriting of who you are, my guess is that you can relate to Paul’s lament in Romans 7.