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August 9, 2018
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Telling Truthful Narratives: A Review of “Migrants and Citizens”

by Alberto La Rosa Rojas
…es, which portray most migrants as either impoverished people deserving of compassion or as free-loading lawless individuals deserving of contempt. Rajendra shows that migration is a “complex and multifaceted” phenomenon in which “preexisting relationships between migrants and citizens” are at least equally likely to determine the flows of migration as increasing wealth and liberty (32). Rajendra thus concludes that any account of the just treatme…
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July 18, 2019
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Christian Justice: A Review of Becoming a Just Church

by Abby Foreman
…eople I wanted to learn from spent their time there. Often the only places open, welcoming and busy in back row neighborhoods were churches or McDonald’s… For many back row Americans, the only places that regularly treat them like humans are churches. The churches are everywhere, small churches that have come in and taken over a space and light it up on Sundays and Wednesdays. They walk inside the church, and immediately they meet people who get t…
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September 3, 2020
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Why the Life of the Mind: A Review of Lost in Thought

by Myles Werntz
…lections, not one which then transfigures the world out of which they have come. The community the contemplative finds is one which is not only supported by the labor of others, but that is cultivated on the basis of the insights discovered in reading. For example, the companionship one might find with the plays of Shakespeare or with the tales of C.S. Lewis ignore that the reader is not actually communing with either, but with their own intimatio…
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February 4, 2021
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The Gift of the Artist: A Review of Art and Faith

by Justin Bailey
…tragedy. And yet, the ability of artists to name brokenness without being defined by it, moving through the brutality towards beauty, testifies that beauty is the deeper reality. Fujimura’s favorite metaphor is kintsugi, the ancient Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold. Here is a crucified beauty, one that acknowledges brokenness while also seeking its transfiguration. As we pray and work, our lives can testify to a God who renews,…
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November 19, 2020
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Passing the Mic: A Review of After the Last Border

by Melissa Stek
…ttlement that moves readers to stand up once again for our country’s noble commitment to welcoming those fleeing violence and persecution across the globe. Readers will meet Mu Naw, a gregarious and brave young mother resettled with her family in Austin, Texas. As a targeted ethnic minority, Mu Naw fled Myanmar as a 5-year-old girl and grew up and started a family in a refugee camp in Thailand. Readers will also meet Hasna, a fierce and loyal moth…
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October 21, 2021
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Joined in Heart and Will: A Review of Reformed Public Theology

by Todd Zuidema
…rsons from every tribe and language and people and nation. You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign on the earth.” Revelation 5:9–10 (NIV)  This is the final review for Reformed Public Theology. To deepen your reading, the other reviews are available here: Introduction and Part 1 (Bailey), Part 2 and 3 (Roth), Part 4 and 5 (Doornbos)….
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February 16, 2023
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Poetry to Break the Power of Empire: A Review of Touch the Earth

by Howard Schaap
…d it to touch the “upside down kingdom” in both historical and present-day examples.   For example, in the poem “Situation Ethics,” Jackson recounts how deception became a kind of value for slaves by which to undermine slavery itself, illustrated through a story told by Booker T. Washington: In the middle of the night, his mother awakened him to eat a chicken that she had taken from the master.  Jackson ties this anecdote directly to our ideas of…
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July 25, 2022
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The Rocks Cry Out: A Review of The Storyteller

by Jason Lief
…d outsiders? Or is it about a resurrection life filled with joy and wonder—coming to the freeing realization there are no outsiders, and nothing can separate us from the love of God? As Jesus makes his way into Jerusalem, he’s met by the Pharisees who tell him to rebuke his disciples who have been joyfully shouting and carrying on. To this Jesus says, “I tell you…if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out.”1 If Christian individuals or institutio…
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February 2, 2023
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Orthodox, Holistic, and Organic: A review of the Introduction and final chapter of Neo-Calvinism: A Theological Introduction

by Gayle Doornbos
…culturally engaged streams. Rather, they point out that this picture is incomplete. It is a picture that is missing a vital and vibrant component, without which our pictures of neo-Calvinism will be incomplete or distorted. What are we missing? it’s theology. For Brock and Sutanto, this omission is problematic for many reasons, not least of which is that historic neo-Calvinism was first and foremost a theological movement that sought to revive “R…
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April 4, 2023
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Growing in Global Perspectives: A Review of Reading the Bible Around the World

by Eoghan Holdahl, Jaelyn Dragt, Joya Schreurs, Susan Wang, Hannah Landman
…ning within a given text. In some instances, this approach is helpful. For example, Western interpreters are often committed to researching the cultural and historical context of scriptural passages to apply them most accurately to modern circumstances. In others, it falls short: most often on the favored side of a power imbalance. European and European Americans often fail to grasp power dynamics at work within biblical texts. This chapter was hi…
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May 9, 2023
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From Worldvision to Worldview: A Review of Personality and Worldview

by Donald Roth
…should not underestimate the cumulative impact of generations of faithful communal commitment to a Christian worldview. The effects that we can expect from this labor is not an instant conflagration of change, like switching on a gas burner. Instead, the commitment to cultivating a Christian worldview is a generational commitment to stoking coals that will burn hot long after the flames have died down. Bavinck closes with a pithy inversion: “You…
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March 21, 2023
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Those Who Came Before Us: A Review of Tell Her Story

by Hannah Landman
…conversation itself is not new to me, and I recognize that readers of this review may have differing opinions, I found that Nijay Gupta brought a reasoned, compassionate perspective to this issue. Gupta’s book offers a refreshing look at women in ministry before, during, and after Jesus’s time on earth. The book begins before the New Testament Church was established. Gupta explores the leader Deborah, revisits Genesis 1, and fleshes out Roman hier…
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March 8, 2022
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The Power Within Us: A Review of Redeeming Power 

by Tara Boer
…r good. We are all called to steward our power rightly. I’ll conclude this review with an example of Diane Langberg using her power well with words to encourage all Christians in the responsibility of power. Langberg writes, It is vital that you see surely and clearly and call things by their right names. Do not be anesthetized by so-called good systems, controlled by bad ones, or complicit by a deliberately chosen blindness. Do not sit down hopel…
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January 10, 2023
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Toward a Covenantal Christian Political Theology: A Review of Politics after Christendom

by Donald Roth
…easons I’m offering this review in this setting is that this book provides accessible depth in a field that can often be complex and difficult to follow. However, it’s not just the style that recommends considering this work. There are several substantive features of VanDrunen’s thesis that offer a good pattern for Christian political theology in general. Specifically, VanDrunen’s framework approach is appropriately limited, while his Biblical gro…
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December 17, 2020
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2020 Top Books

by Emily Rowe
…o ‘stories’ can be reconciled through a robustly theological analysis.” The Myth of the American Dream: Reflections on Affluence, Autonomy, Safety and Power by D.L. Mayfield (Read iAt’s Review here) When Narcissism Comes to Church: Healing Your Community from Emotional and Spiritual Abuse by Chuck De Groat (Read iAt’s Review here)…
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June 15, 2023
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For the ‘gram: A Review of Share

by Rylan Brue
…reminder for oatmeal eating seminarians too. Although there is a pantry of common ingredients, there’s no strict recipe for becoming a saint. You know one when you see one, of course, and when you see a beautiful life, you can’t help but want to try and make one for yourself too. There too, as with anything, hunger remains the best spice.6 pg. 3  ↩ pg. 2  ↩ pg. 2  ↩ “For the ‘gram” title of this review is a social media reference to Instagram (als…
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August 23, 2022
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What it Means to be Human: A review of You’re Only Human

by Gayle Doornbos, Hannah Landman
…as we see our own limitations in light of God’s design for and delight in community, and as we commune with God and others, we are blessedly able to rest in a good God who has no such limits.  GD: We are so hardwired for productivity! It’s so ingrained that it’s easy to start to add Kapic’s recommendations to an ever-expanding to-do list (appreciate and get more sleep, Sabbath, participate in church, etc.). But, his work truly invites us to embod…
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August 11, 2022
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Thriving Against the Technological Tide (Part 2): A Review Conversation of The Life We’re Looking For

by Justin Ariel Bailey, Matthew Beimers
…ing vulnerability with the “uncharmed,” so to speak. He writes: “Imagine a community that incorporated into its very center those at the extremities of life, the very young and the very old. Such persons who have not yet demonstrated their usefulness, or have lived beyond their ability to be productive in Mammon’s terms, would remind the whole community that our identity is not bound up in our accomplishments.”3 That sounds like a church at its be…
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November 5, 2015
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The Rapture of the Geeks

by Derek Schuurman
…hence minds, could be entirely simulated in a computer. Ray Kurzweil, an accomplished computer scientist and author of several books including The Age of Spiritual Machines, suggests that within the present century we will be able to download our brains into a computer and thus escape our mortality. All that remains to achieve this is for neuroscientists to map the brain and for sufficiently powerful computers to be developed. At that point, it is…
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February 9, 2016
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Social Media and Persuasion – Great Expectations

by Bruce Kuiper
…ia for internal communications. Bizzuka, Retrieved from http://www.bizzuka.com/company-blog/the-rise-of-social-intranets-social-media-for-internal-communications) For Van der Kleij, et al (2009), the challenge becomes how to overcome communication hurdles in various environments – for example, how to achieve similar communication results in a video conference that might be achieved in a face-to-face meeting. ((Van der Kleij, R., Maarten, S. J., We…
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May 12, 2017
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The Circle

by Josh Matthews
…, a young single female who gets a dream job at what is supposedly the greatest company on Earth. That company is “The Circle,” which is a massive tech company somewhere near San Francisco. The Circle is headed by Eamon Bailey (Tom Hanks), whose dress and P.R. manner are, not surprisingly, modeled on Steve Jobs and other gurus. You can’t miss that The Circle is talking directly to Google, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft, which are among the most po…
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July 2, 2019
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Movie Review: Toy Story 4

by Tom Clark
…ween toys and humans. The toys only are alive when no one is watching. The complete devotion to one law above all is a constraint that leads to creativity; limitation breathes life into art (Calvin’s tiger Hobbes for example). Obviously, there is the climax in Toy Story where Woody reveals himself to Sid, but that is the exception that makes the rule. Too often in Toy Story 4 the toys bend this rule. I think the writers could have pushed themselve…
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October 5, 2018
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Movie Review “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”

by Josh Matthews
…ed his show. A short scene in the movie claims that he believed in a “wide-open Christianity” that infused a “spiritual vision” into the show. His core theological doctrine was a twist on the Second Great Commandment: love your neighbor and love yourself. The “love yourself” part resembles the feel-good, power-of-positive-thinking dogmas of Presbyterian pastors of the mid-twentieth-century era, such as Norman Vincent Peale and Robert Schuller. So…
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June 30, 2018
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Movie Review “The Rider”

by Josh Matthews
…western American—or none of them. The Rider is not a movie for consumptive entertainment. Hard thinking alone opens it up to discoveries. Brady has a head injury, but careful viewers will note that he risked injury knowing that rodeo-riding could cripple or kill him like his friend Lane. He also risked it knowing that, if either result would happen to him, he would leave his father and sister hard up; and after the recent death of Brady’s mother,…
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February 23, 2017
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Silence: A Movie Review

by Josh Matthews
…in Cinematography.” If you have watched the movie, give us your own movie review by leaving a comment. Silence, Martin Scorsese’s new movie, might be for another time and place. It opens with ambient nature sounds and then, for thirty seconds, is silent. During that time, I heard the bass rumbling in the theater next door, and my friend’s jowls—munch, munch, crunch!—chomping on popcorn. Silence is best experienced in a place allowing for isolated…
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