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February 20, 2018
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iAt Book Club: “How to Think” Round Table

by Justin Bailey
…we reckon with embodied persons who cannot be so easily “blocked” as their online counterparts, but these offline interlocutors usually think along the same lines as we do. Online, we encounter significant ideological diversity, but the shape of our engagement – with written words rather than an embodied person – diminishes the empathy that we might otherwise offer to rival ideas. What is the way forward for cultivating the forbearance (a great wo…
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September 8, 2022
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Stewarding NFTS: Yes, No, Maybe So?

by Jesse Veenstra
…g NFTs as a Scam, Christianity Today, retrieved July 25, 2022 from https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2022/january-web-only/cryptocurrency-blockchain-tech-gifs-digital-nfts-scam.html  â†©   Fox, M. D. (2021, December 22). You Can Now Buy the Bible in NFT Form, But Why Would You Want to? The Forward. Retrieved July 25, 2022, from https://forward.com/culture/479909/buy-bible-verse-nft-why-crypto-blockchain-ethereum/  â†©  Galatians 1:10  â†©  Philippian…
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August 18, 2020
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Supreme Court Decisions in Review (Part 1)

by Donald Roth
…eaching, and I share this in the form of annual presentations to my campus community. I also periodically share these reviews here, albeit less regularly. This year is both remarkable and consistent with this trend for many reasons. For the Court, the uniqueness of the coronavirus pandemic created historic milestones, including its first virtual (via telephone) oral arguments and a term that saw the fewest signed opinions since the Civil War. For…
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March 22, 2022
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Deep Faith: A Review of Early North African Christianity 

by David Moser
…same.   “As Eastman reminds us, ancient African Christians are part of the communion of saints, those who are ‘in Christ.’” Part four examines the Donatist Controversy, one of the worst schisms of the ancient church. As many bishops and pastors handed over their books to the Romans to avoid persecution, their legitimacy to administer the sacraments and preach was called into question. The Donatists held that bishops and pastors who handed the book…
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March 15, 2023
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Podcast: DRAMATIZING the Greatest Story with Kathryn Wehr

by Justin Ariel Bailey, Laurel Koerner
…tps://www.ivpress.com/the-man-born-to-be-king Listen to the plays: https://www.amazon.com/Man-Born-Be-King-Collection/dp/B09HSM8FJ9 Other works by Dorothy Sayers mentioned in the conversation Lord Peter Wimsey series (15 book series) Introduction and Translation of Dante’s Divine Comedy (Penguin classic) The Zeal of Thy House “The Mind of the Maker” “The Lost Tools of Learning” Other authors and books and authors mentioned in the conversation: Gin…
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January 13, 2015
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The Long Invisible Bag

by Chuck DeGroat
…equip God’s people for ministry. Early bird registration is January 19, and the final deadline is January 30. You can register online at www.dordt.edu/doe…
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June 25, 2020
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Resilient Discipleship: A Review of Faith for Exiles

by Derek Buteyn
…Resilient Disciples – 10% The authors give context to the book by drawing comparisons of today’s church in its current cultural climate to the Old Testament Jews exiled in Babylon. In the same way that Daniel remained faithful in the midst of pressing secular cultural influences, the church today needs to be self-aware and intentional about practicing real discipleship. They term this cultural moment as digital Babylon, a “pagan-but-spiritual, hy…
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November 7, 2019
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The Future Through the Eyes of the Past: A Review of From Gutenberg to Google

by Kayt Frisch
…rg to Google: The History of Our Future, former chairperson of the Federal Communications Committee (FCC) Tom Wheeler provides some historical perspective by describing the technological history and societal implications of the three major “network revolutions” of recorded history: the printing press, the telegraph and railroad, and the internet. While each revolution has unique features, by-and-large technological network revolutions follow a pat…
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May 17, 2017
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Freedom from Our Sins

by Jerusha Neal
…nd the reality of our lives together. It reminds us that this “land of the free” accommodated and coddled the institution of slavery for nearly 250 years, and afterward turned a blind eye to the violence of Jim Crowe and segregation. The tragedy of this history is not simply the tragedy of black Americans. It is the tragedy of all Americans. Those who enslave others are slaves of a different sort. In Jesus’ words, “Everyone who commits sin is a sl…
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July 25, 2019
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Conscious Consumption: A Review of 101 Ways to go Zero Waste

by Kayt Frisch
…industrial composting facility to compost properly because they require higher temperatures than are produced in a backyard compost bin.  â†© Not a carcinogen itself but may contain crystalline silica (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-toothpaste-charcoal/charcoal-toothpaste-may-do-harm-and-not-much-good-idUSKCN1SM2M3 and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27809675 Accessed 29 May 2019  â†©…
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February 25, 2021
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Apocalypse Now, Then, and Forever: A Review of A Children’s Bible

by Myles Werntz
…d into the disquieting and the downright terrifying: beware the Scriptures coming alive, for they just might. In Lydia Millet’s A Children’s Bible, we enter into a stultifying scene, in which multiple families have taken their children away for the summer to vacation in an unnamed coastal town. From the onset, the setting is already broken: the bourgeoise parents have largely left their kids to their own devices as they indulge in endless sexual e…
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August 16, 2022
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Reckoning with Status and Realigning our Hearts: A Review of Celebrities for Jesus

by Ruth Clark
…that “(the) megachurch has also altered our understanding of the pastor… a defining feature of megachurches is how much attention revolves around the lead pastor—almost always ‘personally charismatic, exceptionally gifted men’4. Compared with large Catholic and mainline churches, megachurches are the ‘product of one highly gifted spiritual leader,’ and the spirit and feel of the church reflect the vision and personality of the individual leader.”…
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April 26, 2019
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Putting Grace back in the Doctrines: A Review of Humble Calvinism

by Justin Bailey
…asis is on how the doctrine engenders community and confidence rather than comfortable complacency. In his blurb, theologian Kevin Vanhoozer describes the book as “laugh-out-loud Reformed theology.” That might be an overstatement, but it does capture something of the wit and verve with which Medders writes. His book is a warm-hearted exposition of TULIP, and thus representative of a New Calvinist movement that has had some time to mature. Medders’…
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February 15, 2022
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Kuyper on Science: A Review of Calvinism for a Secular Age

by Channon Visscher
…findings, and implications.  â†© Article 2 of the Belgic Confession, https://www.crcna.org/welcome/beliefs/confessions/belgic-confession#toc-article-2-the-means-by-which-we-know-god  â†© E.g., Herman Dooyeweerd, The Twilight of Western Thought; Roy Clouser, The Myth of Religious Neutrality  â†© A limitation of Kuyper’s approach in “Calvinism and Science”, as Haarsma notes, is that he does not distinguish the scientific findings about evolution from the…
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December 20, 2016
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We Are Children

by Jenna Harms
…is season is a reminder that “we are children, not of the slave but of the free woman. For freedom in Christ has set us free.” Whether we are old or young, we are all children that have been set free by Christ. Our souls long to be in union with Christ and by God’s grace, the Spirit frees us to live into that union that has been shaped by God’s love. We remember this promise and are given evidence of it through the words that were given to Sarah a…
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March 29, 2021
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Recovering a Grammar for the Soul: A Review of The Logic of the Body

by Donald Roth
…ains: to spread the fragrance of the knowledge of Him throughout the world (2 Corinthians 2:14). We can do that much better if we recognize that descending motion and embrace our embodied nature. We don’t abandon the Creation to look for God, we are called to open our eyes and testify with joy to the reality of a God who is revealed by His mighty works throughout that Creation. Better yet, we aren’t just called to open our eyes and know, we are ca…
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January 29, 2019
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Growing Where You Are Planted: A Review of Them

by Abby Foreman
…llfully, but it also leads to a question of universality for poor or urban communities. Many communities have historically been without resources and capital, and the local institutions that should have been fostering engagement have not functioned adequately. In these cases, the engagement that is needed may require greater systemic changes than would be needed in other communities where a decent infrastructure already exists. However, even with…
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December 11, 2018
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Advent Peace: The Time Between Time

by Kevin Slusher
…For as the poet W. H. Auden put it: “To those who have seen The Child, however dimly, however incredulously, The Time Being is, in a sense, the most trying time of all.”2 Richard Hays, The Moral Vision of the New Testament: Community, Cross, New Creation, (New York: Harper One, 1996), 402.  â†© W. H. Auden, For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio, ed. Alan Jacobs (Princeton: Princeton University Press), 64.  â†©…
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August 3, 2021
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Hope for Harmony: A Review of Women in the Mission of the Church

by Kate Vander Veen
…ng his kingdom aside from childbearing and housework. The authors provided examples of women who were resource patrons, women who opened their homes for worship, evangelists, teachers, or apostles1. Throughout the chapters that covered the earliest church years and the Middle Ages, the authors described an impressive array of women and their involvement in shaping theological practices. They described mothers, sisters, empresses, and queens who wi…
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February 8, 2022
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Clear Eyes, Full Hearts: A Review of Calvinism for a Secular Age

by Gayle Doornbos
…he able hands of the contributors to this volume, the insights and central components of Kuyper’s thought are clearly presented, providing guidance for newcomers to Kuyper.    “The authors invite us to know what it is like to live and work within a tradition that has significant flaws alongside profound insights.” The second is clarity concerning Kuyper’s faults, complexities, and limitations. While the editors and authors all inhabit the Neo-Calv…
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September 8, 2018
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American Christians: A Review of “The Redemptive Self”

by Donald Roth
…hinking about what mark we make on it. For many people, especially as they enter their midlife years, making this mark centers around the legacy we leave for the next generation, and McAdams starts out the book pointing out that if most of us were asked, “Who are the good people?” we would likely point to those who dedicated themselves to making the world a better place. This concern with promoting the welfare and development of future generations…
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June 22, 2023
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A Proton’s Pilgrimage: A Review of Dawn

by Jason Ho
…ttleground, and there could be nothing between the two. There weren’t many accessible voices that I could draw on at the time as I tried to discern how to honor both my faith and my curiosity for creation. “There weren’t many accessible voices that I could draw on at the time as I tried to discern how to honor both my faith and my curiosity for creation.” Dawn: A Proton’s Tale of All that Came to Be by Dekker, Oranje, and van den Brink is an imagi…
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January 10, 2019
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Praying and Acting Through Persecution: A Review of Under Caesar’s Sword

by Charles Veenstra
…ows that Christians all over the world are creative in challenging the injustice of persecution through both action and prayer. https://www.opendoorsusa.org/christian-persecution  â†©…
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August 13, 2020
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Western Society and Cultural Elites: A Review of Return of the Strong Gods

by David Westfall
…e “openness” that it advocates it is “a managed, orchestrated, and finally compelled openness” (91, emph. mine). According to Reno, this consensus is well-established, at least in practice, among liberals and conservatives alike. Whether through interventionist economics and the ministrations of “social technologists” (e.g. Karl Popper, Arthur Schlesinger) or through the autonomous self-regulation of the free market itself (e.g. Friedrich Hayek, M…
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March 29, 2022
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The Power of the Points: A Review of Making Faith Magnetic

by Justin Ariel Bailey
…peal” alongside “how appalling idolatry is” (88-90).   Strange’s book is a compelling example of what is known as “cultural apologetics”: apologetic approaches that concentrate on giving Christian interpretations of culture rather than making logical proofs, which find their precedent in thinkers like Augustine, Pascal, and Schaeffer. While not replacing more analytic accounts (which defend the truth of Christianity), cultural apologetics remind u…
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