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March 23, 2018
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Remembrance, Communion, and Hope Review

by Stephen Shaffer
…counter where Christ gives himself to us and joins us to himself in deeper communion as we are joined in communion with his body, the church. As a feast of hope, the supper sets our hearts longing for the new creation, but also for the final heaven where Jesus Christ will be and we will behold him face-to-face. As Billings readily admits, Remembrance, Communion, and Hope provides no “quick fixes.” There is not one Sunday school class that can be t…
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January 31, 2023
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Eating the Tornado: A Review of Everything Sad is Untrue

by Sarah Moss
…ter to be had. And there’s quite a bit of bathroom humor, which should not come as a surprise since this book is written from a 12-year-old perspective and is considered youth literature.  Everything Sad is Untrue (A True Story) might make Christians pause and ponder, “Would I be willing to give up everything—my wealth, my comfort, my grandfather—for my faith, in the same way that Daniel and his family had to?” It’s the sort of question that reade…
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April 8, 2021
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Twin Poles: A Review of Bavinck

by David Westfall
…t…that both will quickly metastasize in the absence of a higher, universal community” (281) becomes ever more relevant amid the growing tensions between “globalism” and “nationalism” in the western world and the modern church’s troubling tendency to equate Christian faithfulness with allegiance to one or the other. As someone who has been nourished and influenced by a variety of voices within the reformed tradition, I have come to value both of th…
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November 12, 2020
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Beginning with Imagination: A Review of Reimagining Apologetics

by Jessica Joustra
…me and shows his central conviction: “the good news of Jesus Christ can be communicated in the logic of authenticity without compromising its integrity” (26) for, “God may be more present in the quest for authenticity than we think” (8). In his quest to both ground and describe a reimagined apologetic, Bailey draws on a multitude of philosophical, theological, and literary voices, from Charles Taylor to Alvin Plantinga, Friedrich Schleiermacher to…
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July 14, 2021
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In, For, and Becoming All Things Within God’s Family: A Review of Becoming All Things

by Chandra Crane
…defining themselves” (41). This is the way forward which we learn from the example of Jesus—what Reyes calls “the theology of cultural accommodation in a nutshell” (55)—we strive to sit with cultural differences, sit with the reality of our own discomforts, and remind ourselves that we humans are not the standard. Indeed, “no one person or cultural group is the standard…” (62), which means that “no one person gets to place a higher value on his or…
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August 1, 2019
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Defending the Marital Sphere: A Review of Church, State, and Family

by Donald Roth
…social legitimation, and natural origin of marriage. Further, they link to competing claims of authority over the marital family by the couple, the church, the state, and nature. According to Witte, “When these respective claims and authorities are balanced—when each corner of the canopy is pulled with comparable weight—the marital family is stable.”2 This metaphor has some obvious prescriptive applications, but Witte spends more time on a more nu…
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October 25, 2022
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God and Country? A Review of  The Religion of American Greatness

by Scott Culpepper
…e most steeped in ideologies of Christian Nationalism to reconsider their stance. Miller has crafted an important tool for extending those conversations. Sadly, it remains to be seen whether even conservative stalwarts like Miller and French can continue to exert influence in cultures where purity tests have become increasingly erratic and nonsensical. When purity is determined by checking the right boxes rather than embracing any kind of consiste…
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July 13, 2018
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Bearing Witness in a TLDR World: A Review of “Disruptive Witness”

by Justin Bailey
…long comments, it now introduces a shorthand summary of a longer and more complicated explanation. In a world full of noise, TLDR is emblematic of our society’s short attention span. We are busy, anxious, and stressed, awash in content streams that constantly compete for our time. We gravitate towards clips, sound bites, and bullet points; when presented with an extended argument, we have to fight the urge to skim—if not to click away. What does…
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February 14, 2022
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Confronting Kuyper: A Review of Calvinism for a Secular Age (Chapter Seven: On Race)

by Shaun Stiemsma
…er backgrounds and experiences. To hear those voices, we must make them welcome in our schools, conferences, and churches. To make them welcome, we must acknowledge and alter the ways in which Kuyper’s legacy of racism and ethnocentrism are carried forward in our institutions. To effect this change, we must humble ourselves before our brothers and sisters in Christ from all traditions and repent. In short, we must let God do his work in our hearts…
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May 10, 2022
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Rejecting Deconstruction and Welcoming Christian Mysticism: A Review of When Everything’s on Fire

by Dave Mulder
…ruction” as some would use it. He asks readers to consider what is at the center of their faith: their theology? The Bible? The church? The very person of Jesus Christ? If Christ remains at the center of the Christian faith, perhaps it makes sense that as we grow and mature in our faith, the expression of our hope in Christ might continue to develop? To help us understand this development of our faith life and contrast it with the abandonment of f…
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October 3, 2019
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The Significance of Story: A Review of On Reading Well

by Shelbi Gesch
…from Jonathan Swift on How to Read Widely, Write Well, and Rule Twitter” Science Building Room 1606 More info can be found at theandreascenter.org or at our Facebook Page @AndreasCenter…
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July 11, 2019
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Rhetoric in the Worship and Witness of the Church: A Review of Seasoned Speech

by Scott Culpepper
…es as the art of persuasion, in contemporary Christianity. To address that deficit, Beitler provides examples of five Christians who demonstrate rhetorical excellence in their writing and speaking. His examples include C. S. Lewis, Dorothy Sayers, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Desmond Tutu, and Marilyn Robinson. Beitler explains, “y exploring the rhetoric of these Christians, the book aims to help change perceptions about rhetoric in the church and to demo…
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October 27, 2022
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Navigating Transgender: A Review of Understanding Transgender Identities

by Joel Kok
…ical support, we can appreciate how they address concerns for identity and community in a way that is quite compelling to many people navigating gender identity concerns.”18 In terms of the lenses that Yarhouse and Sadusky describe, DeFranza sides mostly with Sabia-Tanis by operating with the “diversity” lens. However, she writes less militantly than Sabia-Tanis, and her chapter includes a description of how she shifted from the traditional view t…
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September 4, 2018
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The Ins and Outs of Marriage: A Review of “Mutual by Design”

by Erin Olson
…ubjects that have historically been difficult for the church and Christian community. The book is published by the Center for Biblical Equality; therefore, the authors of each of the chapters are all operating from an egalitarian (as opposed to complementarian) view of marriage. These two perspectives—egalitarian and complementarian—are often seen as the only two ways to view marriage. You hold either one perspective or the other—there is no middl…
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January 28, 2021
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The Cracks are Everywhere, Thank God: A Review of Prayer in the Night

by Myles Werntz
…a great grace which allows humanity to know, receive, and be healed by its openness to the work of God. Far from being a deficit, vulnerability is bound up with being human, to the degree that being God’s creature and being vulnerable entail one another: to be a creature of God is to embrace our finitude, our weakness, our need for lament and restoration. The headings of “those who weep, watch, and work” in Compline, provide an entry to these disc…
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May 14, 2020
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The Presence of The Spirit: A Review of A Profound Ignorance

by Myles Werntz
…church to be the broken body of Christ in the present. Such a word is cold comfort. As Radner says, “To define grace in terms of assurance, or joy, goodness, healing, restoration, or liberation is true enough, but only a times and only for some and only in a few circumstances. Exclusively or exhaustively tying pneumatic reality to such gifts has, over and over again, proven inadequate to the reality of living and of life’s own inborn limitations”…
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October 5, 2021
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The Making of Beautiful Things: A Review of Adorning the Dark

by Channon Visscher
…on in 2008 to create the Rabbit Room, a ministry that cultivates a Christ-centered community through art, music, and story. As Andrew notes early in his career, “I had to work at it, learn to be objective, and—this is the big one—ask for help, help, help.”  The second major theme is the importance of place—that we are called to live faithfully wherever we find ourselves. Peterson notes that the “Christian’s calling, in part, is to proclaim God’s d…
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July 15, 2021
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Only Love Remains: A Review of Klara and the Sun

by Myles Werntz
…ate knowledge of Josie’s movements, heartrate, and mannerisms that Klara becomes both a valued companion to Josie, and also the target of manipulation by the adults vacantly orbiting Josie. Over time, this attention—the core characteristic of Klara—grows into love for her ward. In Simone Weil’s famous essay in which she links together the attention we give to study and the life of prayer, it is through paying attention that we learn to love God, W…
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March 25, 2020
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Podcast Review: Dolly Parton’s America

by Jackson Nickolay
…ers. Yet, the podcast notes the things she has taken a stand on, such as becoming a feminist icon via the 1980 film 9 to 5 and continuing to work around that story to produce a staged production in 2008. Parton’s unique stance as one who aggressively holds to the middle is examined critically on the show, and hard questions are asked. But, the producers manage to provide a very balanced presentation of this questioning. Of course, they also speak…
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April 9, 2019
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When Life’s Too Much: A Review of More Than You Can Handle

by April Fiet
….” Most of the time, the person sharing the platitude is doing so to bring comfort, though it may be that they are most trying to comfort themselves in the face of a situation to which they have no idea how to respond. The word “platitude” comes from a French word that means “dull” or “flat.” Platitudes may be dull, but they still have a way of cutting deeply. Intended to help heal, platitudes instead cause more pain. Nate Pyle’s second book calle…
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August 31, 2022
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Three Tributaries, Exploring the Reformed, Baptist, and Catholic Branches: A Review of The Church’s Book

by David Westfall
…posture in turn governs Webster’s bibliology: “Holy Scripture serves and attests the self-communicative presence of God, through which God speaks, as from a human temple, the good news of the gospel of Christ.”1 Vital to this conception is the recognition of two of Scripture’s functions: the critical—acting as “judge” over all the church’s thinking and acting— and the saving—“in being the means of Christ’s conduction, by the Spirit, of reconciled…
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March 28, 2023
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Conflict as a Gift: A Review of The Space Between Us

by Anna Mooers
…either good nor bad; it just is. The second layer of our personhood is the defended self. The defended self is like a shield around our descriptive self; the layer we develop to hide our vulnerability, shame, and insecurities. Unfortunately, the defended self is the most common self we operate out of in the world and in our relationships. When conflict occurs and our selfhood becomes at risk, it is the defended self that takes over. The final laye…
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June 28, 2023
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Rehumanized Christian Masculinity: A Review of Non-Toxic Masculinity

by Kurt Frisch
…es long before they hit puberty and learn early on that vulnerability is incompatible with cultural values of masculinity. Sexual sin is often the expression of an immature emotional self. Attempts to protect children from hyper-sexualized culture combined with the purity culture suggests that preventing exposure is the sure path to success. However, Wagner suggests that long term efforts to form young men’s virtue would be the better path. Parent…
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February 9, 2018
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“Hostiles” Review

by Josh Matthews
…to be meeker. This is one of the best performances of his career. He is accompanied by Rosamund Pike’s remarkable turn as Rosalie Quaid, a frontier woman whose entire family is murdered by Comanche horse-thieves. Early in the movie, Blocker’s party finds Quaid holding her dead baby in her burned-down house. She is so traumatized that Blocker must call upon his vast war experience to play therapist and comforter. Somehow he has to take her, a woma…
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February 27, 2020
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Revealing American Injustices: A Review of Unsettling Truths

by Chandra Crane
…percent of the Native population was wiped out during the ongoing war)… by comparison, Nazi Germany had a genocide rate for the Jewish people of 35 percent” (162). One might expect that with comparisons like these, the authors would play into a mindset of elevating one group’s trauma over another’s, but this is refreshingly not true. Rather, Charles and Rah show how each of the many types of injustices perpetrated against people of color are relat…
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