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August 18, 2021
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Learning to Eat your Vegetables: a review of Contours of the Kuyperian Tradition from a teacher’s perspective

by Donald Roth
…mportance of Christian education for the ongoing vitality of the Christian community.  Testing Out the Tradition  My wife and I always require our kids to try at least a bite of anything they haven’t tried before, and they have to revisit vegetables that they haven’t tried in some time to see if they’ve developed a new taste for them, even if only in a certain preparation. While we’ve been working to convince our kids of the larger plausibility st…
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June 6, 2019
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Deconstructing Purity Culture: A Review of Pure

by Erin Olson
…in girls and women. Once married, however, Christian virgin women are to become the “tigress” of marital sex. Their husband introduces them to the act of marriage and, like a light switch, all of their sexual desires come pouring out and are fulfilled in the marital relationship. Klein’s interviewees, however, tell a different story. The shame and fear around sex and sexuality does not just go away as soon as you enter the marital relationship. Yo…
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June 27, 2022
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The Now and the Not Yet: A Review of The Art of New Creation

by Justin Ariel Bailey
…akes its theme from 2 Cor. 5:17: “if anyone is in Christ, new creation has come!” The doctrine of creation has obvious connections for artistic creativity, but what about the new creation? As Begbie points out in his introductory essay, the new creation “is already secured in the past” by the resurrection, “lies ahead of us as an ultimate goal,” and “faces us as a reality we are invited to enter here and now.”1 What does it mean to create art that…
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April 2, 2018
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“Movies Are Prayers” Book Review

by Josh Matthews
…tation and contemplation, and joy. Each chapter in his book offers several examples of each kind of movie-prayer. For example, prayers of anger are featured in diverse movies from across the decades: “Fight Club” (1999), “The Maltese Falcon” (1941), “Taxi Driver” (1976), and “King Kong” (1933). Other movies are prayers of joy, which can be uttered from anywhere in the world: “Pather Panchali” (India), “Amélie” (France), “My Neighbor Totoro” (Japan…
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July 17, 2018
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Movie Review “First Reformed”

by Tom Clark
…d them both in tension. She passes through the dark night of the soul to become the knight of faith. While the film is slow and meditative, it becomes exciting in the third act as tension builds to a fascinating climax that I shall not spoil here. Several times throughout, a little photograph appears of an outstretched hand cupped, holding something out. To me, it almost looked like Morpheus offering the red pill to Neo in The Matrix (probably not…
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February 17, 2022
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Why War? A Neo-Calvinist Perspective: A Review of A Field Guide to Christian Nonviolence

by Laremy De Vries
…for most of my adult life, it hasn’t hit close to home for me. Many of the examples in the book come from what you might think of as the greatest hits of 20th century violence. Nazis, Vietnam, drug cartels in Central America, and the Civil Rights Movement all showed very clearly what was at stake. In this century, our wars seem lukewarm at best, and the violence seems distant, at least to many rural Americans. But maybe that’s exactly the right ti…
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August 10, 2022
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Thriving Against the Technological Tide (Part 1): A Review Conversation of The Life We’re Looking For

by Justin Ariel Bailey, Matthew Beimers
…ow, I can look up whatever piece of information I need, keep up with the latest news, or search for the latest product, whenever I want. But the unintended trade-off of having the world at my fingertips is that I’m losing my ability to concentrate while I read and I’m fighting to be fully present with my children. MB: In a sense, the empire of Mammon wants us to imagine an alternative home, a place where our needs are anticipated and met, but this…
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June 1, 2021
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Having Your MasterCake and Eating It Too: A Review of Liberty for All

by Myles Werntz
…nd fulfill their vocation as those created in God’s image as they seek God freely, coming to faith not out of compulsion but free assent. This age, between the ascension and the Second Coming, is one characterized by a searching out of the truth, offering Christians various opportunities to engage with people of other faiths and no faith about the common good and about the nature of ultimate things. Eschatologically, there will be judgment of the…
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February 10, 2021
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Beloved Unity: A Review of Native

by Chandra Crane
…est in Christ, the one that the First Nations Version8 calls “Creator Sets Free.” May we learn from the Native believers among us to be set free into the great love of Christ. xii, emphasis/italics hers  â†© The chapter where she specifically addresses her mixed ethnic identity (“Fighting Invisibility”) was such a gift to me, and I highly recommend it to other multiethnic folks.  â†© xiv  â†© 17  â†© 1 John 4:18  â†© Please note that I am not propping up an…
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February 11, 2021
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Beloved Unity: A Review of Native

by Chandra Crane
…est in Christ, the one that the First Nations Version8 calls “Creator Sets Free.” May we learn from the Native believers among us to be set free into the great love of Christ. xii, emphasis/italics hers  â†© The chapter where she specifically addresses her mixed ethnic identity (“Fighting Invisibility”) was such a gift to me, and I highly recommend it to other multiethnic folks.  â†© xiv  â†© 17  â†© 1 John 4:18  â†© Please note that I am not propping up an…
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February 13, 2017
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You and Me and West Texas: Review of Hell or High Water

by James Calvin Schaap
…ead more reviews. And, if you have seen the movies, give us your own movie review by leaving a comment. When I left the theater, I stopped to eat at Golden Corral and sat down with a plate full of buffet food. Just like that, a guy in a cowboy came by and sat at the table beside me. I had to pinch myself to remember I wasn’t still in west Texas. John Gardner, the writer, used to say that what we do when we tell stories is create fictional dreams….
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October 7, 2021
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The Prophetic and Black and Pentecostal Voice: A Review of Shoutin’ in the Fire

by Howard Schaap
…ns and as people look for simple answers, we need to engage the dance, the complexity of voices, to understand the fire, to understand how to survive the fire.” So, I recommend you read Shoutin’ in the Fire at least three times. Once for the voice, a second time for the story, a third time for the ideas.  Then, read it again, for the voice again, the cadences.   Then read the writers he mentions, read Black literature. In times like these, as the…
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December 28, 2022
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2022 Top iAt Book Reviews

by Ruth Clark
…s you “expand your imagination for what the Christian life—and life of the mind—can accomplish.” Is there a book title you’d like iAt to review? Leave your ideas in the comments below….
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February 11, 2020
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Seeking Out the Seventh Day: A Review of God’s Sabbath with Creation

by Ethan Brue
…our feet to an abridged version of scripture that under-amplifies “the greatest commission of all” (53). Back in the early 1980’s, Keith Green borrowed his own prelude for a teaching moment: <live crowd cheers as the piano begins to play> You know, I look around at the world and I see all the beauty that God made. I see the forest and the trees and all the things…and it says in the Bible that he made them in six days and I don’t know if they’re a…
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September 30, 2016
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Evangelicals and Trump

by Anonymous
…n the 40-year-old concrete that has covered the evangelical church. And I pray that in another 40 years those little cracks in the pavement will grow into a mustard tree farm. www.pewforum.org, “Evangelicals Rally to Trump, Religious ‘Nones’ Back Clinton”  â†© www.christianpost.com, “Jerry Fallwell, Jr. Blasts Critics as ‘Hypocrites’ for Judging His Pro-Trump Photo in Front of Playboy Cover” â†© www.christianpost.com: “Donald Trump Promises Evangelica…
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August 15, 2018
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Mere Is Always a Dangerous Word: A Review of “Mere Sexuality” Part Two

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. Biology, it turns out, is an unreliable ally in the cause of mere sexuality. Throughout the book, Wilson is dangerously inconsistent in his use of biology as a source of authority, using it when it is convenient, and rejecting it when necessary. So, Jesus’ sex, defined biolo…
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July 28, 2021
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Living Well in the Ordinary: A Review of A Long Obedience in the Same Direction

by Sam Ashmore
…on Peterson’s mind at all, yet he still sensed that the Christian life was defined by the latest and newest: “Zen, faith healing, human potential, parapsychology, successful living, choreography in the chancel, Armageddon” (10). Too often, the Christian life is defined by the world, which is an unsatiating desire for the instant, constant striving for progress, and living for the high points. According to Peterson, Christian discipleship is not an…
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November 8, 2018
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The Church’s Response to Changing Culture: A Review of “Future Faith”

by Robert Lancaster
…hrist into which God has placed us. Our ancient faith, present faith, or future faith is a faith that is not grounded in the kingdom of this world, but one that looks forward to the kingdom that has come, is, and is to come—the Kingdom of God. I am not sure I would call individualism a heresy as he does—however do agree that it is a problem in modern evangelicalism  â†©…
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June 26, 2015
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A Summary and Initial Response to the Same-Sex Marriage Ruling

by Donald Roth
…n would be viewed as legally suspect and therefore subject to more careful review. The most careful review available is “strict scrutiny,” which applies to racial classifications, while gender and legitimacy are subject to a slightly lower standard of “intermediate scrutiny,” and everything else gets “rational basis review.” The golden issue in this is if orientation-based classifications received strict scrutiny, which might unlock a significant…
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February 8, 2019
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Movie Review: Roma

by Josh Matthews
…scenes of Mexico in movies involve drug dealers. The rest involve schlocky comedy. Roma features an ordinary-looking Mexico City and a maid who is a genuine human, not a stereotype. She works hard but is rudely criticized for a poor work ethic. She longs for love. She’s sometimes scared. She enjoys her friends. She suffers. She lives with a modestly well-off family, whose father rarely comes around. Later in the movie, he ditches them. There is an…
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August 14, 2019
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Making Nothing of Evil, and Everything of God: A Review of That All Shall Be Saved, Part 2

by Myles Werntz
…he wrote that for one entity to understand another the first must be more complex. Since humans cannot be more complex than humans, we’ll never understand ourselves completely. But it’s impossible for humans with our minimal complexity to understand God who is vastly greater in complexity. Grasping this reality means that there will be somethings, like the Trinity, that we can’t understand and take God at his word. Hart refuses to humble himself…
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January 16, 2020
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Recipes, Imagination, and Scripture: A Review of Romans Disarmed

by David Westfall
…ual meals). The ethics of this community and its sense of social justice, centered on the law-fulfilling command to love one’s neighbor as oneself, are therefore rooted in the habitual experience and practice of God’s universal hospitality, and rule out social dynamics that impede or prevent “mutual upbuilding.” Such hospitality gives rise to an “economy of care,” rather than of exploitation, that recognizes creation as a gift to be received, prot…
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May 3, 2018
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Providential Creation and a Gracious Science

by Carl Fictorie
…nesis.org/astronomy/earth/does-bible-teach-earth-flat/.  â†© See Article 13 of the Belgic Confession and Q&A 27 of the Heidelberg Catechism.  â†© See for example Carl Sagan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLkC7ralR30 and R. Spangenburg & K. Moser, Carl Sagan: A Biography, Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2004, p. 26 â†©…
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May 9, 2019
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Why the Words We Use to Describe Faith Matter: A Review of Learning to Speak God from Scratch

by Kayt Frisch
…shape what we value. Furthermore, God has gifted us with language—both to communicate with each other and (more importantly) to communicate with us through the written sacred texts. Merritt argues that if we stop speaking God, the language of faith (what he calls “sacred words”) will follow the course of other languages that are no longer spoken—that is it will become a “dead” language alongside ancient Hittite (among others). Not all hope is los…
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January 15, 2016
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Ex Machina: Notes for Viewing

by Bob De Smith
…nventor has indeed created a sentient android, he has moved beyond the greatest accomplishments of mankind to those of the “gods.” Nathan, the inventor, later (willfully?) misquotes Caleb (the invited guest) to suggest Caleb actually declared him a god. Later, Nathan predicts the demise of mankind, suggesting that androids will look on humans as we look at fossilized remains of our ancestors — as remote, primitive, and obscure. Garland suggests a…
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