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May 22, 2018
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Willow Creek: Why We Need More Church Discipline

by Caleb Schut
…I can’t tell you how valuable and encouraging it is when a deacon or elder commends me for something done well. In turn, those affirmations open me up to receive critical feedback. Too many churches simply don’t have methods of feedback or threads of dialogue to create the sort of relationships that hold leaders accountable. We need more church discipline, not less. It is 2018, and if the church has learned anything in the last few decades, it is…
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March 22, 2016
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How Do You Pray?

by Todd Zuidema
…r, the collect, represented best by Thomas Cranmer in the Anglican Book of Common Prayer. Some argue that we should pray extemporaneously—“as the Spirit leads”—because it is “more from the heart.” Can’t the Holy Spirit guide us if we write out our prayers? Is one more heartfelt than the other? I looked at different examples of prayer from Scripture as well as the different traditions of prayer that have been recorded throughout time and in the tra…
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October 23, 2014
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Devotions

Living Business as Mission

by Justin Schuiteman
…United States and around the world as a coordinated effort to advance the common good in the communities to which we are called to live. The event included presentations from three national speakers via simulcast and three local speakers–Amanda Bahena (Christianity, Immigration and Sioux County), Matt Drissell (Why Small Towns Need Art), and Justin Schuiteman. Each local speaker had nine minutes to share their thoughts and wisdom with the partici…
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September 11, 2016
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A Letter to Those Growing Up in a Post-9/11 World

by Donald Roth
…ike me to understand what living in America as a black man feels like, but opening our ears may open our eyes to better understand what we don’t know and what we can’t understand. It may help us feel a sense of the groaning of our brothers and sisters when they feel their world shifting under their feet. After 9/11, America closed its ears to all but one narrative about why things happened and how the world worked. If we choose to follow a differe…
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October 2, 2014
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Shame, Vulnerability, and Faith

by Sara Gerritsma De Moor
…hy, unvaluable, and unlovable. This is where vulnerability and (Christian) community come in. Vulnerability: What is it, and perhaps more importantly, what is it not? The definition of vulnerability I will be working with is the following, borrowed from Brene Brown’s book Daring Greatly: “Vulnerability is uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.”1 “According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the word vulnerability is derived from the Latin word…
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September 29, 2017
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Capital Punishment in Christological Perspective

by Myles Werntz
…he stronger arguments against capital punishment) and thicken it. It has become common as of late to argue against capital punishment on the basis of Jesus’ unjust death. The argument, rooted in the work of Rene Girard’s writings on violence, runs like this: Jesus, in dying an unjust death on the cross, reveals the law to be merely an application of force and thus, unjust. In his death, Christ unmasks the violence of the law for what it is, negati…
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December 16, 2015
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Expecting

by Lisa Smith
…tion of the coming child. Right now Christians have an expectation for the coming of Christ. We want Him to come now, and that’s great! However, we cannot forget the beauty and joy in the present. A prayer from the heart to have our eyes opened—how God’s kingdom is here on earth, and the blessings we have from Him and the lessons He wants to teach us. Through the expectation of Christ’s coming we cannot forget the beauty that we miss out on if we…
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December 8, 2022
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Finding Simplicity for Advent—Joy

by April Fiet
…lseye we aim for.  This Advent season, while we dash around to our various commitments, try to check all the boxes on our list of expectations, and try to do it all with a smile on, let’s take a moment to focus on one simple, life-giving thing: the Christ child coming into the world. God, through this one vulnerable act, became human with and for us. God walked among us, healed the sick, cared about our concerns, and dealt with the crushing pressu…
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January 2, 2018
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Surviving Secular Apocalypse: A “How-To” Book for the End of the World

by Justin Bailey
…the distractions of private life to public participation. Non-commitment becomes the default position. We surf and skim, but our failure to use our freedom to fight for the common good paves the way for tyranny. This indictment finds a poignant picture in the Hunger Games: the comfortable, distracted citizens of District One have turned a blind eye to the oppression of the outer districts, but in choosing amusement, they have also given up their f…
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December 8, 2017
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iAt’s Top Book List for 2017

by Liz Moss
…Is Happiness a pleasure or a pain? You hardly know. Certainly it is not a comfort for comfort spells seciurity and hapiness can take you out of yourself to a degree where all secutiry is left behind. Behind a feeling of exultation, you can sense the flame of incandescent terror. This short book is entirely original and will further enhance McCabe’s posthumous reputation.” The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt “In his widely praised book, awa…
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December 19, 2019
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2019 Top Books

by
…any more. However, there were many more books in 2019 than we were able to review. Compiled by iAt’s Editorial Board, this diverse list gives a variety of topics and genres to consider as you discern what to read in 2020. We want to hear from you: what books should iAt consider reviewing this next year? Leave your ideas in the comments below. Evangelicals: Who They Have Been, Are Now, and Could Be by Mark A. Noll, David W. Bebbington, George M. Ma…
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January 19, 2018
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Taking the Stress out of Money

by Kayt Frisch
…s assigned to your “daily latte” category? Great. Then buy the latte guilt free—understanding that assigning your dollars to that category was a conscious decision. You decided to put those dollars in “daily latte” and not “Hawaii vacation” or “rent” or “loan payments.” Mecham expands on these ideas, guiding the reader to identify how these play out in his or her own unique situation. After introducing the basics, Mecham also discusses important r…
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September 5, 2017
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Gender & Authority: Authority in the Blogosphere

by Anne Kennedy
…s a heady time, a time of commenting and connection, of uncovering virtual community from the isolated comfort of suburbanism. But, children grow, and Facebook overtakes the world, and as all my various friends dropped out of the blogosphere, I kept going, looking for anything else to write about. I woke up one day and remembered that I had a masters of divinity, and that I’d ridden the wave of literary criticism and deconstruction in university t…
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April 6, 2017
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iAt Book Club–The Benedict Option: Optional? and For Whom?

by Erin Olson
…ese Christian enclaves? As Scott said in his piece, Dreher, a supporter of free enterprise, is unlikely to support this challenging and yet seemingly necessary aspect of his suggested communities. Second, is it truly optional? Dreher seems to say we must do this or else, and yet he doesn’t really state the overall goals of this option—what exactly are we hoping to accomplish? Can we ever plan to emerge from this cloistered existence? Dreher says t…
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June 1, 2022
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Working through Possibilities: a Theologian Reviews When Did Sin Begin?

by Jason Lief
…open a dialogue between human evolution and Christian faith. This is to be commended, and from this perspective, I strongly recommend this book. At the same time, I can’t help but feel something is missing. At some point we need to acknowledge that those who interpret scripture from a particular evangelical/fundamentalist methodology are not the only ones who take the Bible seriously. Read another perspective of this book here. Loren Haarsma, When…
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November 30, 2017
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Grief, Doubt, and Hope: Victor Austin’s Losing Susan

by Kate Henreckson
…his wife. “When you are happy…” says Lewis, “you will be—or so it feels—welcomed with open arms. But go to Him when your need is desperate, when all other help is vain, and what do you find? A door slammed in your face, and a sound of bolting and double bolting on the inside. After that, silence.” But, expressions of anger at God—from the hearts of His faithful followers—date much farther back than Lewis. “Awake, O Lord!” David cries out in the Ps…
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December 31, 2020
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2020 Top Articles

by Emily Rowe
…s from this past year? And, what topics would you like iAt to explore this coming year? Comment with your thoughts and ideas. Covid-19, Church, and Contradictions by John Lee “Pastoring a church has never been for the faint of heart. Serving among a community that bears the stench of a crude field hospital for sinners and yet also refracts the glory of a company “spread out through all time and space and rooted in eternity, terrible as an army wit…
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December 27, 2022
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2022 Top 10 Articles

by Ruth Clark
…wide-open spaces of Rural America. Wishing you peace and joy from the in All things editorial board at Dordt University. We’d love to hear from you! Comment with your favorite article or a topic you’d like to see us review….
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May 18, 2018
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Witness Borne and Witness Reborn: Marilynne Robinson’s What Are We Doing Here?

by Myles Werntz
…irmation than Edwards, one of common mystery rather than an affirmation of common fragility and complicity in the sin of Adam. Writing to audiences in colleges and churches living in a fractured world, Robinson is—I think—encouraging them to not give up on theology and the humanities as irrelevant to the world. Rather, these are the very ways that our humility and true humanity are recovered: we become more human to ourselves and to one another as…
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March 30, 2017
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“Beauty and the Beast”

by Josh Matthews
…rue Alpha Male and will get the girl: the noble Beast, who just needs some companionship and feminine refinement to become a true gentleman, or Gaston, who is too nasty to reproduce with. (I kid not; the movie makes overt reference to Belle having children with Gaston multiple times.) Belle, meanwhile, realizes that she couldn’t care less if she lives in a big city or not. As a serious reader of all books, she’ll trade her dreams of adventures in…
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March 24, 2017
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Exile on E Street: The Pilgrimage of Bruce Springsteen

by Myles Werntz
…nable to save him, of losing himself in performance and finding himself in composition. Through his life, he finds other musicians as gods among us, miracles in the death of friends, and grace in reconciling himself to his own family. In describing the composition of his solo album Nebraska, recorded in-between anthem albums of Born to Run and Born in the U.S.A., he writes of being immersed in the work of Flannery O’Connor, a Catholic writer whose…
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January 26, 2022
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Podcast: RESTING – Feature Conversation: April Fiet

by Justin Ariel Bailey, April Fiet, Erin Olson
…fficulty of friendship as an adult, and ways to normalize grief and messiness – One thing to know, and one thing to do if we want to change To read Dr. Erin Olson’s review of April Fiet’s book: [https://inallthings.org/reimagining-rhythms-a-review-of-the-sacred-pulse/]…
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November 10, 2017
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Spiritual Disciplines

by Caleb Schut
…ations for our neighbor.”5The passage from Jeremiah at the opening of this review comes on the heels of Jeremiah’s simple yet profound command to plant trees, build houses, settle down. In other words: own properly, eat faithfully, do the little things right, always considering your neighbor. This book flips the purpose of spiritual disciplines on their side and steers us back towards a more biblical understanding of Christian discipleship. If the…
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February 12, 2015
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The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance

by Bob De Smith
…tography Emmanuel Lubezki, who contributed to the stunning long take which opens Gravity (2013, dir. Alfonso Cuarón), has extended that technique here to encompass the entire film. And if you have seen the film, your reaction to this creative choice may fall within a range from disappointment to wild praise. Is the technique a gimmick that commands too much of our attention? For some, this may be the case. It is a sort of one-trick pony: it does n…
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May 31, 2017
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King Arthur: Legend of the Sword

by Donald Roth
…ce out of the experience of the story like if Jim Gaffigan spent his whole comedy routine in his nasal-voiced meta-commentary mode. However, Charlie Hunnam is more Abbott than Costello, and when Ritchie is working with a straight man, the slick banter and self-aware style comes off with a more winsome sincerity. There’s no doubt that this movie proceeds at a frenetic pace, but the chemistry and bravado of the leads allows for some emotional blows…
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