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March 30, 2019
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Fixing Metric Fixation: A Review of The Tyranny of Metrics

by Donald Roth
…ns and what consequences can come with crossing from one use to the other. Compstat is a comprehensive mapping of criminal activity in a city. Pioneered in New York in the 1990s, the program is credited with contributing to the significant drop in violent crime in that city. Used well, Compstat created a detailed set of data that police could use to pinpoint their response to areas that needed it most. Over time, however, rather than just guiding…
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March 6, 2018
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Immigrant Neighbors Among Us Review

by Alberto La Rosa Rojas
…ence to the state’s laws in adherence to Romans 13, or 2) a congregational commitment to welcoming and loving all immigrants paired with indifference or resistance to engaging civil officials or the government advocating for immigration reform. Rodríguez’ opening argument shows that both responses are more representative of an Anabaptist view of church and state relations than of a Reformed stance informed by Calvin’s theological legacy in Geneva….
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September 29, 2018
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Prayers for Peace: A Review of “Christianity in the Twentieth Century”

by Anneke Stasson
…Such an approach is not only more honest it is also more stimulating. For example, in the chapter on Christianity and nationalism, he places “Catholic nationalism in Poland” alongside “Protestant nationalism in Korea.” The average reader doesn’t know much about either area, but this doesn’t matter. Stanley brings us up to speed and in the process gives us a transnational perspective that enables us to more carefully consider the relationship betw…
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August 20, 2020
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Supreme Court Decisions in Review (Part 2)

by Donald Roth
…nge of regulations may have been designed to thwart the Court’s ability to review State’s noncompliance with the precedent set by these cases. Given these developments, I think it likely that we’ll see this issue taken up again by the Supreme Court in the near future. What do we make of this term? The “so what” of this term obviously varies depending on which issues are most dear to your heart, and there are many important, interesting, or even so…
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August 8, 2019
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Widening the Dialogue of Classic Christianity: A Review of A Pastoral Rule for Today

by Joel Kok
…ir work can reorient pastors not only from their Presbyterian and other Protestant mainline denominations but also from any Christian community in North America. This is true because at the heart of the book is the ancient concept or rather, the catholic practice of a “rule.” By a pastoral “rule,” the authors mean “a disciplined way of life that keeps us grounded in the principal calling of a pastor: to be faithful to God and God’s will for us and…
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May 16, 2022
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Fictional Saints: A Review of The Scandal of Holiness

by Mary Vanden Berg
…ss serious book choices. Some of the works suggested seem pretty heavy and complicated, and as a systematic theologian, I read heavy and complicated books, albeit non-fiction, as a substantial part of my work. When I find time to read fiction, it feels like an indulgence—a luxury of sorts. I also find, much like Wilson suggests, that it often feeds my soul, which in turn helps me feed the souls of my students. But I do wonder what she would think…
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May 23, 2019
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My Grandfather’s Hands: A Review of Heartland

by Chelsea Maxwell
…ck in the hand is job well-done. My grandfather was the same way. He would come in from the farm or wood shop, put vaseline on the cracks, and rest—no complaint. Satisfaction for Smarsh’s family and for my grandfather was derived simply by owning a piece of land, caring for it well, and passing it down to their children. And yet, as Smarsh surmises, “You can pay an entire life in labor, it turns out, and have nothing to show for it. Less than noth…
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January 16, 2023
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Embracing Ecology and Fantasy: A Review of The Wonders of Creation

by Carl Fictorie
…rough lament, we recognize injustice, acknowledge suffering, challenge our comfort, overcome apathy, and through all of these, we prepare for action. She is particularly critical of us in the developed West, whose actions create much of the environmental degradation while our relative prosperity insulates us from the suffering it causes for the poor throughout the world. For many of us, we are too much like Uncle Andrew in The Magician’s Nephew, w…
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November 4, 2021
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“Better Than We Found It”: A Review of Struggling with Evangelicalism

by Justin Bailey
…p, misogyny, or racism—one of the first impulses that evangelicals feel is defensiveness, the desire to defend the larger movement, and to say that these ills are a distortion of true evangelicalism rather than issues woven into the movement itself. But Stringer points out that saying “#notallevangelicals” misses the opportunity to practice the sort of corporate repentance found in the pages of Scripture, wherein we take responsibility for the wro…
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February 13, 2018
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“The 15:17 to Paris” Movie Review

by Josh Matthews
…ie, which tends to claim one thing via dialogue and then show us something completely different. For example, the characters repeatedly tell us that they are destined to do something special. Most of the movie follows one of them, Spencer Stone, as he seeks to achieve his destiny. He gets in shape via a Rocky-esque training montage, joins the Marines, learns to be a military paramedic, and then does his something-special on the French train. What…
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March 30, 2023
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What Time Is It?: A Review of How to Inhabit Time

by April Fiet
…day that never was. Or, we can look back and feel the sting of shame and become mired in a past as though it will define us forever. As people of faith, Smith argues (and I agree), we cannot ignore our pasts or forget our promised future. We bring all of these parts of ourselves and our story within God’s story into our present moment. This moment—this time in which we find ourselves—is important, and we would not be who we are without the experie…
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June 18, 2020
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Gratitude as Worldview: A Review of Eucharistic Reciprocity

by Donald Roth
…o appreciate our present and past provision. As a virtue, then, DeJong’s recommended ethic of gratitude is about more than restraining evil; it’s about embracing a vision of the good that comports with who we really are. Gratitude as a corrective lens When Calvin spoke of the Bible as a set of spectacles that help us see the world as it truly is, he named something that would evolve into the concept of worldview. Although worldview came to mean so…
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March 11, 2021
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The Shared Virtues of Science and Faith: A Review of Why Science and Faith Need Each Other

by Channon Visscher
…work and seeks to demonstrate that science and religion can, in fact, find common ground to complement each other in constructive and beautiful ways. This is no small claim in light of the persistent (if inaccurate) cultural narrative of conflict noted above. Moreover, the reality is that areas of conflict and tension between science and religion do exist, even if the relationship is not defined by them. In such areas of tension, how might people…
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April 5, 2018
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C.S. Lewis on Politics and the Natural Law Review

by Brad Littlejohn
…till, I couldn’t help but wonder if more light might not have been shed by comparing Lewis to examples of such a pragmatic liberalism as it appeared in early Protestant political thought. It is curious, for instance, that Dyer and Watson note earlier in the book the importance of Richard Hooker as an influence on Lewis’s Protestant natural-law theory, but do not consider the ways in which his political thought—poised midway between Aquinas and Loc…
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January 25, 2018
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“Darkest Hour” Review

by Josh Matthews
…tion to the problem is somewhat cheesy, involving Churchill’s attempt to become more familiar with the English public. The political allegories around the movie’s climax are thinly veiled. Let me just say how remarkable it is that this movie thinks that a lifetime politician, a born aristocrat, and the leader of the Conservative Party can so quickly become a believer in public-transit democracy. I do not believe this film’s presentation of these h…
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February 14, 2019
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Finding Purpose in the Clutter: A Review of The Minimalist Home

by Kayt Frisch
…family has no desire to go back to our old way of life. We appreciate the freedom that has come with minimalism—we spend less money on stuff, our house is a neater and more relaxing place to be, and we are content in a small (by cultural standards) space. In short, we feel freer to pursue our callings in life. As a result, we are starting to encourage our family and friends to consider minimalism and have the following advice for how to introduce…
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April 23, 2020
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Loving the Midwest as it Was, Is, and Will Be: A Review of Midwest Futures

by Myles Werntz
…to creation. Accordingly, a kind of piety which glosses over the Midwest’s complex past and complicated futures is a kind of piety which neglects the God who has given us existence. To treat the present Midwest—its history, its people, and its possibilities—as a descent from a pristine past is to do the Midwest a disservice, and ultimately, to sin against it. To treat the Midwest as the jumble of possible futures that it is? That may be the highes…
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June 6, 2023
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Remaining in Restlessness: A Review of The Gift of Restlessness

by Anna Mooers
…much of Jesus’ ministry was rewiring pathways in his followers’ minds, for example, Jesus often said, “You have heard it said…but I say to you.” We need some of this rewiring when it comes to our mindset on what is enough. A mindset of abundance rather than scarcity “leads us to a non-anxious posture toward the world.”3 As we sit in silence and solitude with the Lord, we are reminded that God must be enough. Can Things Be Mended? The fourth circum…
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April 28, 2022
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How Do I Feel?: A Review of Atlas of the Heart

by Angela Kroeze Visser
…escribe how we feel can be tricky and we may not always be able to know or communicate exactly what it is that we feel. The premise and goal of Brene Brown’s latest book, Atlas of the Heart, is to build a shared vocabulary in order to foster shared connection. Brown writes, “When we don’t have the language to talk about what we’re experiencing, our ability to make sense of what’s happening and share it with others is severely limited” (xxi). The a…
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September 1, 2018
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How Evangelical Fears Paved the Way for Donald Trump: A Review of “Believe Me”

by Scott Culpepper
…the currents that propelled Donald Trump to the presidency are only the latest examples of evangelical tendencies that stretch back to the colonial era. Examples of evangelicals’ embrace of racist rhetoric to achieve their political goals are provided from the antebellum period to the efforts of Christian private schools to resist integration in the seventies. Allegations of spiritual infidelity thrown at progressives by Court Evangelicals today…
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August 24, 2018
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The Light of Motherhood: A Review of “Birthing Hope”

by Rebecca De Vries
…s from the NICU were with us and I was looking down at my daughter saying “come on baby, come on baby.” She had somersaulted her way through the umbilical cord in her haste (and mine) to be alive. And she lived. My husband and I hadn’t feared this when we decided to have children. We had consented to what seemed right and normal. And because we live where we live, when we live—because of our privilege—fear was at bay. Things go wrong: My mother-in…
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November 29, 2022
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Person, Pastor, and Theologian: A Review of An Explorer’s Guide to John Calvin

by Gayle Doornbos
…s readers through an outline of Calvin’s Institutes and confronts a second common misunderstanding: that Calvin ignored the Holy Spirit in his theology. Contrary to these claims, Thianto shows how Calvin places “the Holy Spirit at the center of our redemption” in his theology of Union with Christ.5 “To reduce Calvin and Calvinism to the doctrine of predestination is to reduce Calvin’s full-orbed theological vision to a particular doctrine.” As Thi…
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May 25, 2018
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Using Discipline to Build Relationship: A review of “No Drama Discipline”

by Kayt Frisch
…y thought about—it was more of a hoped-for-but-not-explicitly-expressed outcome of discipline in my mind. After introducing their outcome-oriented picture of discipline (all in the book’s introduction), the authors spend the first two chapters sharing, in an accessible way, what current neuroscience tells us about how discipline affects the brain’s development. They paint a compelling picture for why a discipline approach should focus on calming t…
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November 17, 2021
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For the Beauty of the Earth: A Review of The God of the Garden

by Ruth Clark
…ell as the joys of his English countryside explorations, Peterson weaves a compelling argument for becoming more aware of local habitats, local decision-making, and the names of plants or tress in our own yards.   …loving a master Gardener who cares for the sparrows involves noticing the garden.” But most of all, Peterson tells stories—little vignettes that snap off the page and invite the reader to glimpse this moment, this tree, this footpath, t…
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October 13, 2022
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The Thriving Church: A Review of Inalienable

by April Crull
…I see life, relationships, and even faith. I have needed the strong counterexamples of other cultures to help me recognize these entanglements. In Inalienable, the authors try to draw from global theologians and leaders—Vinoth Ramachandra and C. René Padilla being two examples—to provide American leaders with these needed insights. Years ago, a speaker at a missions conference told me, “our job is to introduce people to Jesus, not to create nice,…
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