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January 5, 2023
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Ghosts of America’s Past, Present, and Future: A Review of Preparing for War

by Scott Culpepper
…a former evangelical insider, Onishi brings rich personal insights to this complex conversation.  “Onishi communicates the urgency of our historical moment, offering hope while also warning that the worst is not yet behind us.” Onishi radiates both passion and provocative style in Preparing for War. It is no dry academic treatise. Preparing for War rests on the solid foundations of careful research and extensive notes while also clearly communicat…
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March 16, 2023
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Voicing the Gospel Story: A Review of The Man Born to Be King

by Laurel Koerner
…a scandal: the representation of Jesus the Christ as a character. Sayers’ commitment—to make “really real” to listeners of the program the greatest story ever told—meant acknowledging social-political context while exploring that distant world from the inside; embracing the humanity of it all, including that of Jesus; and using language that would feel immediate to listeners.  In Play 2, the character of Jesus is introduced. Here Sayers faced the…
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January 31, 2020
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Movie Review: 1917

by Josh Matthews
…s, and crops. At the movie’s beginning it is April, recalling T.S. Eliot’s opening-line of his famous post-WWI poem “The Wasteland”: “April is the cruelest month.” It certainly is the cruelest month for the two main characters in 1917. The theme of ecological destruction continues when, about a third of the way through the movie, the characters come up to a small farm where all of the cherry trees have been chopped down. Those trees, blossoming wi…
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July 13, 2022
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Healing Christ’s Fragmented Body Through Communal Discipleship: A Review of From Isolation to Community

by Angela Perigo
…have the power to equally fragment or equally heal the individual and the community. “God comes to us in and through the very creaturely life in which we operate as isolated beings, offering us a vision beyond solidarity.” Myles Werntz Isolation is the common thread woven into the very fabric of creation through the entrance of sin. Using Bonhoeffer’s framework of church as a healing presence within local communities, Werntz offers a compelling v…
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September 8, 2021
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An Unlikely Story: A Review of Reformed Public Theology

by Justin Bailey
…ollow, other writers at In All Things will offer their own reflections on other parts of the book, which considers markets, justice, aesthetics, academics, and worship. The danger with any edited volume, of course, is that in the diversity of contributions, the center becomes thin. But for my part, I found the diversity delightful. I frequently found myself nodding and saying, “Yes! This is why I resonate with this tradition.”   I remain an unlike…
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January 11, 2019
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Movie Review: Welcome to Marwen

by Ashley Huizinga
…gy and unreachable), there is no escape for Hogie from the past that keeps coming back to haunt him. Marwen toes an often uncomfortable line between serious and campy. The music is enchanting and plays a significant role from the beginning, the colors are vivid and affecting, and the obvious ties between the doll world of Marwen and the real world of Kingston, New York, are fun to recognize. Even the subtle blocking within certain scenes is clever…
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May 11, 2021
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Caught in a Web: A Review of A World Without Email

by Kayt Frisch
…of some of the tech philosophers he references, he nevertheless presents a compelling and accessible argument for the causes of the problem, setting the stage for suggested alternatives in the second half of the book. The second half of the book is comprised of four chapters (approximately two-thirds of the book’s pages) discussing ways to change individual and corporate habits by focusing in turn on: assigning work (“The Attention Capital Princip…
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November 15, 2022
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Filling Empty Cups: A Review of The Soul of the Helper

by Erin Olson
…only her childhood trauma, but also how she’s tried, in some ways, to overcompensate for it.” It is common for people to choose a helping profession when they themselves have been the recipient of some form of professional help. I became a social worker in part because of my own personal experience with my parents’ divorce when I was a child. I didn’t spend a lot of time in therapy working through the divorce or my subsequent turbulent relationsh…
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December 29, 2017
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“Three Billboards” Review

by Josh Matthews
…retense for the drama and bleak humor that surround the film’s theological complexity. Consider the billboards. They become loaded symbols, picking up new meanings with each scene. At first, they are faded and meaningless places that no one cares about. Later, after Hayes puts up her signs, they turn into symbols of police injustice, of fiery rage, of sacrificial offerings, and even of the Holy Trinity. Writer-director Martin McDonagh (“In Bruges,…
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April 2, 2020
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Movie Review: Onward

by Josh Matthews
…are motorcycling pixies who act tough in spite of their size, and they engage the Lightfoot boys in a hilarious send-up of the chases in the Mad Max movies. Onward is B-level Pixar, slightly above-average, warm-hearted entertainment. To combat the coronavirus, we need more of this, and far less of the horror-movie and darker teenage-level fare we’ve been subjected to in theaters and on Netflix for years. Enjoy it when you can….
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April 2, 2019
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Comfort in the Canons: A Review of Saving the Reformation

by Donald Roth
…res eased, internal pressure grew, and Godfrey brilliantly illustrates the compromises and complexities that developed in a church that had close ties with different political factions. Ultimately, Dordt was not just about responding to the Remonstrants, it was about a larger struggle for the soul and identity of both the Dutch people and the Reformed church. The second part of the book is a new translation of the Canons’ original Latin. By shorte…
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November 17, 2018
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Belief in a Disenchanted World: A Review of “George MacDonald in the Age of Miracles”

by Justin Bailey
…rsen’s forthcoming book, George MacDonald in the Age of Miracles. As the latest publication from the Wade Center’s Hansen Lectureship series, the book was described to me as detailing MacDonald’s approach to skepticism and doubt. Since I am currently engaged in a similar project on MacDonald,1 I felt a mixture of anxiety and anticipation. For multiple reasons, I was eager to read this book. Larsen’s three chapters relate to the larger themes of in…
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May 12, 2015
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The Vanishing (Reformed) Youth

by Donald Roth
…words, the goal of our worship, just as with our devotions, is to seek to enter and welcome each other into a covenant identity and embodied life outside of ourselves, outside of our comfort zones, but rooted in Zion. 4.…Not Dumbing Down. Often, our response to shrinking numbers, particularly among the youth, is to reach out and try to tailor our practice more and more to what we perceive that group to want. However, as Thomas Bergler argues pers…
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July 11, 2018
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The Fortnite Phenomenon: Should Christians be Wary? (Part II)

by Donald Roth
…astounding financial success is rooted in its particular iteration of the free-to-play revenue model. Free-to-play games are games that can be downloaded and played without paying any up-front fee; however, unlike just about every stupid free-to-play mobile game on my iPad, the paid elements of Fortnite are purely cosmetic. That is, there is no advantage to spending money in this game, and you don’t have to watch a bunch of commercials to keep pl…
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March 6, 2015
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Answering Your Question: The Church and Homosexuality

by Aaron Baart
…mes. Anonymous Pastor Baart, Thank you for this article, which I recognize comes from a place of compassion for and experience with gay people. However, as a gay Christian myself (and a Dordt alum, in fact), I’d like to commend to you the benefits of certainty. I have chosen to remain celibate in my life. I made this choice because I realized that the Bible was not going to change, that I would never look into Scripture and find God’s encouragemen…
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November 2, 2016
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Why I’m not Voting (for President)

by Donald Roth
…based on the fact that I’m still voting for other offices, but I’d like to defend the validity of choosing to sit out the whole affair as well. So long as the decision is born of protest, not apathy, choosing not to vote is not rejecting political engagement, regardless of what society seems to insist. This justification rests on the fact that politics is much more than how we vote. In fact, I’m not even sure that voting is the primary avenue of e…
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October 28, 2016
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Voting for Hillary Rodham Clinton

by Wesley Granberg-Michaelson
…ater)? Are police officers — both black and white — feeling more or less comfortable in communities of particular race characterizations? Are those same police officer policing more and better or less and worse? Is the black community, for which Obama has particularly advocated, doing better economically after his 8 years or significantly worse? I haven’t at all talked about abortion of course. What is even more important (more fundamental) than…
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July 11, 2016
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What Does Social Democrat Mean?

by Dave Schelhaas
…ind, as if they were useless adjuncts if unable to “make their own way”. In fact, the primary attributes of a social-democracy are, at present, two – but both are key elements: *National Health Services that are very low cost and universal. *Free or nearly free Tertiary Education, so that everyone can school themselves in the attributes that will allow them the most professional success possible, in order to make a decent income for their families…
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January 25, 2016
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Religious Freedom and Presidential Politics

by Chelsea Maxwell
…a mix of judicious law enforcement, careful social work, charitable outreach, and good old melting pot assimilation we eventually work things out. (Example: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/08/06/hmong-leaders-seek-legalize-cultural-weddings/31258453/)…
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June 30, 2015
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God Loves Sex and Sexuality

by Neal DeRoo
…oman is complete in their gender without having produced children. The new testament completely up-ends this view, showing us a church where single and marital celibacy is idealized. Castrated men, too, are elevated, ultimately to become paradigmatic of the priesthood by the 4th century. Theological developments in the western church during that same period framed even licit marital sex as involving the transmission of original sin. These ideas re…
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May 21, 2019
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Introducing the Planetary Health Diet

by Dawn Berkelaar
…The EAT-Lancet Summary Report is short and accessible, available in seven languages. The full EAT-Lancet Commission report is available from The Lancet (you will need to register for free to view and download the report). Photos of what these kinds of meals might look like can be found in the EAT-Lancet Summary, page 11. â†©…
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February 20, 2015
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Should Obama have compared ISIS to the Crusades?

by Walker Cosgrove
…review in Books & Culture. It is recommended as “Lenten reading” — http://www.booksandculture.com/articles/2013/marapr/lenten-reading.html?paging=off Apparently he suggests “the church” (and every church) through its failure at unity betrays Christ and tends to be complicit with great evils though passivity, indirection, and feebleness if not direct complicity. Walker Reid Cosgrove Anthony. Fair enough, I never meant to suggest that racism is not…
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February 13, 2023
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Discerning Culture with Herman Bavinck

by John Thompson
…Freud frenzy?  Bavinck and Freud were contemporaries, and though he didn’t comment comprehensively on Freud’s psychoanalytic worldview,15 Bavinck did offer some thoughts on the concept of the unconscious16 that will illustrate our discussion. First, we should note that Bavinck rejected Freud’s atheistic worldview. Freud was not just non-Christian, he was anti-Christian, stating that Christianity is merely a functional cultural construction, and ps…
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July 13, 2015
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A Mathematician’s Apology

by Tom Clark
…eacher and often catered to the test as well. This emphasis on high stakes testing becomes reflected in the state standards that guide math education. The tests are based on state standards—and those standards are often written to be easily assessed in a standardized test. This circular logic poses big problems for math, because testing for deep conceptual understanding is difficult to do on a bubble sheet. As a result, you end up with state stand…
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December 21, 2014
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Advent: High Priest

by Neal DeRoo
…ight religious rituals, doctrines, or beliefs—to God’s level, but when God comes down and dwells with us. We don’t need to do anything special to gain God’s presence—God has freely granted it to us, first in the baby we wait for this Advent season; again in the Spirit we celebrate at Pentecost; and finally in the return of the king that we wait for every hour of every day. To live in the presence of God is the gift that we were all given on that f…
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