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November 29, 2018
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Feeble Lamps Burning in the Big Wind: A Review of “The Year of Our Lord 1943”

by Steven Rodriguez
…the book succeeded in other ways. For example, they formed countercultural communities (often open and porous, welcoming non-Christians) by resisting the use of force to coerce others to adopt a Christian worldview. Perhaps most importantly, they relentlessly witnessed to beauty, human suffering, and personhood in the face of a culture that had come to prize technique, mechanization, and efficiency over all else. As a parent, this book struck a ne…
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May 11, 2018
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Echoes of Exodus Review

by Stephen Shaffer
…n succeed in opening the Scriptures to be seen with clarity. Even if every example is not completely convincing, the overall argument is compelling. The book brings clarity by helping to see how seemingly bizarre stories in Scripture resonate with the themes of exodus. Abram in Egypt pretending Sarai is his wife, the ark of covenant in the temple of Dagan, and the deaths of Ananias and Sephira are but a few of the stories connected to the exodus i…
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April 13, 2022
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Bicycles, Bridge-Building, and Commuting Intentionally: A Review of Saving Us

by Jason Ho
…weighed the pros and cons. Pros:Cons:I’m in control of my own schedule I’m committing to the commute no matter the weather Buses have bike racks, so I can take the bus if I change my mind I can’t carry as much as with a vehicle I get some exercise every day Biking can be dangerous in a car-centric city Biking is normally cheaper than driving   Car engines are energetically inefficient    As a physicist, it’s the last point that really interested m…
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August 17, 2021
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More Than Just “Every Square Inch”: A Review of Contours of the Kuyperian Tradition

by Emily Vander Ploeg
…and how Christian education should work (Chapter 11). Each chapter closely examines Kuyper’s own thoughts on the topics, followed by an examination of the thoughts of other scholars within the Kuyperian tradition, especially those of Herman Bavinck and his nephew, J.H. Bavinck. At times, Bartholomew also points readers to more recent theologians who are a part of the Kuyperian tradition, such as Alvin Plantinga and Nicholas Wolterstorff (regarding…
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June 6, 2022
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Cloudy with a Chance of BEANs: A Review of Eat, Sleep, Innovate

by April Fiet
…ehavior creates value in some way, innovation is happening.” Innovation is defined as “something different that creates value.” While the definition might seem broad, it was left so intentionally. Innovation is not confined to technological advances or business changes that make money. When a company or organization does something different (not even necessarily something brand new), and that different behavior creates value in some way, innovatio…
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June 20, 2023
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Cultural Contours of a Christian Worldview: A Review of Biblical Critical Theory

by Donald Roth
…G.K. Chesterton, Watkin argues that diagonalization is not “an amalgam or compromise, but both things at the top of their energy.”1 It’s too common today that Christians domesticate Scripture down to the sorts of stories that fit on a flannel board in a Sunday School class. There’s a developmental aspect of what sorts of stories children can understand, but we often write off this vague familiarity as adequate Biblical literacy. Without coming to…
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February 9, 2023
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“Evangelizing Everything” Including Ourselves: a review of Chapters 8-9 of Neo-Calvinism

by Justin Ariel Bailey
…ushering in the kingdom of God apart from Christ’s Parousia.”  Christians testify to his coming kingdom by seeking the renewal of every area of life, calling “the family, the public, and the state to walk in alignment with creational norms reaffirmed by Jesus Christ.”6 This is the church’s task, even as we proceed with chastened expectations. This brings me back to the conversation I had with the librarian, and the question of why the church can…
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December 6, 2022
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The Gospel’s Joyful Tiding: A Review of Interpreting Your World

by Jessica Joustra
…religious, and aesthetic. With these tools, he invites readers to take the complexity of culture seriously, and the complexity of our engagement with culture. Culture is not just something that we neutrally engage with; it is the water in which we swim, something that not only is formed by us, but forms us. And, importantly, something that God charges us to live in, engage, and do for his glory, and according to his ways.  Rather than shying away…
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September 1, 2021
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God’s Nearness in Grief and Suffering: A Review of Either Way We’ll Be All Right

by Anna Westfall
…of grace designed to sustain God’s people. These practices, taken with the community of believers, are well-given—they are accessible to the wounded, they nourish the weary instead of making steep demands of them, and they increase faith. “Pain and death are undeniable realities, yet God may be seen through them, and even understood more truly through their lens.” His treatment of the snare of sin—the reality of temptation for the suffering—posses…
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July 1, 2021
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A Goodness Culture: A Review of A Church Called Tov

by Abby Foreman
…tov focuses less on a powerful leader and more on the active local church community committed to key virtues of goodness that promote healing and health within the church community. I would like to see a part three in this book that includes suggestions for structural changes in governance and policy-oriented solutions that could be employed in our churches to reduce abuse and avoid toxic cultures. There are resources available like safe church p…
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May 23, 2022
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Small Habits, Big Changes: A Review of Atomic Habits

by Kayt Frisch
…e”10. Even with Clear’s guidance, “simple” may be an overstatement when it comes to figuring out how to implement habits effectively, but through the examples and research the author highlights, it is obvious that these steps are effective. The majority of the book is devoted to unpacking the four laws of behavioral change, which derive from the “four simple steps.” Through anecdotes, research summaries, and examples, Clear unpacks each law and se…
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May 30, 2019
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The Christ-Haunted Midwest: A Review of Interior States

by Myles Werntz
…as a translator of a foreign land for wide-eyed secular observers. In the opening of the book, she describes her task as one of “testimony,” intending “to connect my experience to larger conversations and debates” and to bring the world of N+1 and The Boston Review together with her own legacies of Midwestern evangelicalism. The original homes of these essays were the homes of the cultured despisers, written to provide an accounting for herself o…
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August 14, 2018
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Mere Is Always a Dangerous Word: A Review of “Mere Sexuality” Part One

by Steven Rodriguez
…ind of Alamo or Helm’s Deep. And as evangelicals have clung to the “gender-complementary-as defined-by-biology” belief, they have unwittingly painted themselves into a corner. In the second part of this book review, I will explore the problems with isolating biological gender complementarity and offer a suggestion for a different way forward. John Henry Newman, The Works of Cardinal Newman: Historical Sketches (London, UK: Longmans, Green, and Co….
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January 9, 2020
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The Legacy of Evangelicalism: A Review of Restless Faith

by Chelsea Maxwell
…mbodying the civil discourse he has long promoted (read this In All Things review of Uncommon Decency), wrestles with his desire to protect a legacy of evangelicalism that spans continents and generations, while also contending with the stigma—sometimes fair, sometimes not—associated with it. At the outset, Mouw sets forth the classic definition of evangelical to ground his reflection. The definition, referred to as “the Beddington Quadrilateral,”…
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February 16, 2022
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Clarifying, Complicating, and Challenging Kuyper: A Review of Calvinism for a Secular World

by Justin Ariel Bailey
…amplifying my gratitude and acknowledging my grief, making it an essential companion to Kuyper’s lectures. It clarifies his aims, complicates his legacy, and challenges his flaws. When necessary, it moves forward by reading Kuyper against himself. Most importantly, it continues Kuyper’s project, offering a generative and generous vision for all of life, one sorely needed in our secular age.   I am thankful for the conversation that has taken place…
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April 27, 2018
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“Ready Player One” Review

by Josh Matthews
…ne fulfill every male nerd’s improbable fantasy, which is to have a female companion who loves videogames, tech, comic books, and other hallmarks of beta-male culture as much as the nerd does. (No offense intended; I speak as one.) Ready Player One does not try to deviate from the long tradition of science-fiction stories about virtual reality, which usually feature international corporations as really evil bad guys. So, of course, Watts battles t…
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July 7, 2021
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He is Strong When We are Weak: A Review of Gentle and Lowly

by Donald Roth
…ongside us most closely in times when our need for that restoration is greatest. I didn’t know it coming to the book, but I needed to see so that I could come to more personally know the comfort of a Savior who pursues me, especially in times where I am pulling away. Revealing Himself This insight also sunk in because Ortlund provided a satisfying sense of why Christ would have this sort of heart for sinners and sufferers. Christ delights to draw…
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October 1, 2020
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Embracing the Color of Life: A Review of Joyful

by Kayt Frisch
…same shade of taupe it was when we moved in, a shade which I have recently come to recognize as the color of a sky filled with smoke from nearby wildfires. I have complimented it with a gray couch, a neutral colored rug with a geometric pattern, and some espresso accents. No wonder coming home so often feels draining. For years I have thought that the way to have a “classy” or “modern” interior of my house was through neutral colors. Reflecting on…
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May 4, 2015
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Summer: A Beautiful, Holy Mess

by Kayla Craig
…, step by step, or choose to be absent from their lives except for great accomplishments. Just as Jesus fully entered our human experience, we parents can jump into our children’s wonder-filled world,” Mark and Jan Foreman, Never Say No. Our Father in Heaven delights in His children. He loves us with an everlasting love. And you know what that means? He actually enjoys us. He perfectly desires to enter into our lives. In Zephaniah 3:17, the prophe…
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August 27, 2020
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From the American Dream to Shalom: A Review of The Myth of the American Dream

by Erin Olson
…ook like us and earn like us and spend like us? Does this mean we can feel comfortable when it seems like those around us are comfortable as well? If you instead put yourself in a position of awareness and curiosity about those in need both in your community and globally, you will find plenty to do. Mayfield tells the story of how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr would often take time to reflect the global nature of his morning routine—”coffee from Latin…
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October 26, 2018
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Focus on Friendship: A Review of “Why Can’t We Be Friends?”

by Erin Olson
…hat might be present. Being siblings in Christ, allows us to live fully in community and communion with one another as the Bible calls us to do and to be. Attraction, Byrd states, is not sin, and it is normal even after one is married. While it might be easier to envision a world where we lose our ability to feel attraction to someone other than our spouse, that is unusual and unlikely. Attraction may happen in certain relationships (or not all),…
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April 12, 2019
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Netflix Review: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

by Josh Matthews
…er beautifully. And they are all Westerns of a kind, riffing on old ideas, combining to create something new. The opening eponymous story, “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” offers singalongs and showdowns, as a white-clad cowboy, Buster Scruggs himself (Tim Blake Nelson), proves how tough and smiley a movie cowboy can be. Meanwhile, the second story that follows, “Near Algodones” (starring James Franco and Stephen Root), features hangings, Indians, c…
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November 9, 2018
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Movie Review: “First Man”

by Josh Matthews
…ntil he passes out, vomits into the toilet? And then, his fellow astronaut enters the restroom and vomits into the same toilet because he, too, took a turn in the chair? This is exactly how your movie made me feel. I am not speaking in metaphors. About 80 minutes in, I began suffering from dizziness. There is so much spinning and shaking in your movie, in extreme-close shot after extreme-close shot, without any let up on the spinning and shaking a…
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May 31, 2019
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Movie Review: John Wick: Chapter 3—Parabellum

by Josh Matthews
…s and wear brands that give them “safe passage.” They seek “parley” when a combat stalemate occurs. Topping all of this is the character of the “Adjudicator” (Asia Kate Dillon), perfectly cast as the enforcer of a system of rules that all of the characters not only know by heart, but hold as sacred and inviolable. For example, at one point Wick, chased by an assassin, crashes onto the steps of the Continental Hotel. He puts his hand on the bottom…
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September 20, 2018
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Finding Conservative Christianity’s Place Outside the U.S.: A Review of “No Borders”

by James Bratt
…growth movement at the “Battle of Lausanne” in 1974 (Chapter Five). The outcome of that contest, McAlister concludes, was a big-tent compromise that offered room for both under a generic “evangelical” label. The second section analyzes evangelical self-perception “as both persecuted victim and compassionate rescuer” (106) across the last third of the 20th century up to the achievement of South Sudan’s independence in 2005. The conservative wing pl…
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