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January 7, 2021
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Burnt-out Lightbulbs: A Review of Can’t Even

by Mike Janssen
…red in the Great Recession, right as many millennials finished college and entered the workforce. Wages remain stagnant (relative to inflation), so many millennials also enter the gig economy, perhaps driving for Uber in their off hours to make ends meet. Overwork is the norm, encouraged in the workplace by the consultant’s emphasis on efficiency and profit above all, and enabled by the always-on, always-connected nature of modern technology, whic…
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March 4, 2016
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The Invitation

by Kim Brinkerhoff
…d. The invitation is open. One Door. One Voice calling for His children to come and follow: to enter the abundant life as it was intended to be. We only need to sincerely ask, seek, and knock. Once inside the door, the Keeper of the door is also the Keeper of my heart. The twists and turns, the bumps and bruises and even the falls are not in vain because only by His grace am I still dancing at all. My good Father remains the Lord of the dance with…
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July 2, 2020
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Stories of the Servant of God: A Review of Dorothy Day

by Myles Werntz
…hter Kate Hennessy. But, until recently, there has been no substantial and accessible biography of this complicated historical figure. Loughery and Randolph are, in some ways, odd choices to write this particular biography. Their pedigree as historians of seminal American figures such as Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, and John Hughes (the 19th century Irish archbishop) disposes them to deal with the deep background of Day’s life and times. The…
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October 24, 2019
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Read it and Weep: A Review of The Fool and the Heretic

by Carl Fictorie
…way we engage our disagreements. What if the way we handle ourselves is a test of our Christian character?” (15). The purpose of the dialogue between Wood and Falk is to demonstrate how to disagree in love and how to make steps towards unity. Over four pairs of chapters, Falk and Wood argue that the other person is both wrong and dangerous. They also share their personal histories, recount their first tense meetings together and how that develope…
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September 29, 2022
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Space for Questions: A Review of A Curious Faith

by Hannah Landman
…Discomfort with a lack of answers seems to be, if not universal, a pretty common complaint amongst students. We want to know what to expect; to have an answer laid out in front of us and then to go about our day. We want to be able to move on from tasks content that we’ve sorted out the matter completely. Unfortunately, faith doesn’t work like that, and as Lore Ferguson Wilbert assures, that’s not just okay; it’s a good thing. As Wilbert lays out…
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March 12, 2020
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Common Ground for the Common Good: A Review of I Was Hungry

by Abby Foreman
…nating our efforts in our communities?” This book will be valuable to anyone who is interested in learning about how to engage with others in community to come together to solve a collective problem….
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April 22, 2021
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When War is the World: A Review of Missionaries

by Myles Werntz
…for which the mechanical processes of war cannot account. To return to the opening image, Christ remains hidden throughout the book, and in less deft hands than Klay’s, a sermonic priest would soliloquy at the book’s end, offering a noble word of hope for the powerless. But hope is not here in this obvious way. Rather, what emerges is akin to Graham Greene’s Power and the Glory: the suffering Christ, who loves the world, works to renew and redeem…
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May 7, 2020
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The Trial of Transformation: A Review of When Narcissism Comes to Church

by Todd Zuidema
…e person you call your pastor. In his newly released book, When Narcissism Comes to Church: Healing Your Community from Emotional and Spiritual Abuse, Chuck DeGroat shares his insight on the damage that narcissistic pastors and leaders inflict on their family, staff, and congregations. With over twenty years of experience as a pastor and therapist, DeGroat leads us through stories, clinical definitions, as well as thoughtful theological reflection…
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January 17, 2023
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Active Imaginations: A Review of Wonders of Creation

by Hannah Landman
…, “Lament allows us to confront the truths we have ignored for the sake of comfort and gives those of us living in comfort a means to petition God on behalf of our neighbors in need.”2 “By slowing down, we can begin to know the world around us, begin to see creation as the place where God dwells.” Images of a ransacked shire, Isengard’s plunder of the Ents, of trees in Lantern Waste being cut down, naturally inspire readers to some measure of ange…
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October 6, 2021
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The Academy and Aesthetics: A Review of Reformed Public Theology

by Gayle Doornbos
…are in the brokenness of the world.   In closing, I echo what the previous reviewers have commended about this volume’s worth. This book presents a reformed vision that is striking in its depth and breadth. Furthermore, it does not tell the reader that the Neo-Calvinist tradition is useful; it shows a living tradition that has a compelling vision for our contemporary context. For this likely Neo-Calvinist, it is an exciting vision that I hope can…
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December 6, 2019
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Culture

Movie Review: Ford v. Ferrari

by Josh Matthews
…be, and how much they are allowed to play around in order to craft the greatest, fastest car they can. Ford writes them blank-checks, but that means that the company asks, at various times, for control of their enterprise. Ford has the money and the infrastructure to build the car, but it’s clear in the movie that they meddle too much. One of the main conflicts in this movie is so important that I think every organizational leader in American busi…
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August 3, 2018
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No Place to Hide: A Review of “The Line Becomes a River”

by Myles Werntz
…omething else—the faces of those in the struggle. For it is in those faces—those who bear the costs of policy and law—that important and otherwise unattainable knowledge comes. Without their faces and their testimony, law is but a sounding gong, and history is but a clanging cymbal….
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October 31, 2019
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Prodigal Theology for an Anxious Age: A Review of On the Road with Saint Augustine

by AJ Funk
…th”), but each can be loved or utilized in a disordered manner, so as to become an obstacle to true prodigal living. Lack of space prohibits comment on each of Smith’s chapters, but perhaps the most intriguing discussion, and, arguably, the most central to his argument, is the chapter on Story. In this chapter, Smith argues that our stories matter precisely because they are normal. Our stories give us a sense of solidarity with those around us, an…
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January 26, 2023
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Talking back to Christian Parenting: A Review of Habits of the Household

by Kayt Frisch
…come us…who our children are becoming is tightly connected to who we are becoming–personally and communally.”5 After introducing readers to the ideas of habits in the introduction, Earley launches into ten chapters, each describing an area of life and considering how habits may already be present and shaping that area before proposing new habits to consider. The order of the chapters is structured around the rhythm of the day: Waking, Mealtimes, D…
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January 25, 2022
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Reimagining Rhythms: A Review of The Sacred Pulse

by Erin Olson
…y vulnerable, and we often choose (usually subconsciously) anger as a more comfortable emotion, because it is seen as strength. In a culture uncomfortable with sadness and vulnerability, people are often forced to bury their emotions and mask them with more “appropriate” ones—an emotion easier for other people to understand. Fiet offers the rediscovery and connection with God’s holy rhythms as we begin to process our own losses, and she encourages…
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January 18, 2022
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Back to the Beginning: A Review of A Call to Christian Formation

by Jessica Joustra
…of God and ought to be lived in line with God’s ways and design. Other Protestant traditions, Kuyper argues, fail to grasp just how expansive God’s reign is by, for example, “plac the kingdom of God in the room of the Church.” 3   “The relegation of theology to anything less than foundational for everything was a challenge in Kuyper’s day and is no less one in our own.” Certainly, Kuyper’s rhetoric here is neither ecumenical nor gracious to his f…
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June 29, 2018
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Listening through Disagreement: A Review of “Civil Dialogue on Abortion”

by Stephen Shaffer
…-life advocates have become polarized in our culture with their own words, online communities, and patent arguments. For our society to move forward, we need to find the language for civil dialogue without sacrificing religious conviction. While they do bracket religious reasoning, Mulder and Manninen provide a model of how to talk together when we do not share the same basic convictions about the world, ourselves, and God. Civil Dialogue on Abort…
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June 9, 2020
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OK for Boomers: How Do We Remember Those Who are Locked Down as We Open Up?

by Donald Roth
…e important, but when our perception of our own enjoyment of such things becomes our primary metric for evaluating the state of society, it becomes all too easy to advocate for an essentially narcissistic public policy. What is the cost? All of these factors can foster a narrative that obscures the need for concern. I frequently hear versions of this argument: “Why should your fears keep me locked in my house? Let us get back to normal, and if you…
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March 16, 2022
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“Dancing in the Minefields”: A Review of The Nicene Option

by Rylan Brue
…a way to allow our foundational beliefs to build signposts of the world to come, while not allowing these signposts to become violent, exclusionary ‘isms.’” You might expect that if a philosopher is looking to tear down fences, they would turn to the French deconstructionist Jacques Derrida. However, the problem as Smith sees it is that Derrida did not actually succeed in tearing down the Kantian fences plaguing Western philosophy. The Kantian bin…
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October 8, 2020
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The Great Balancing Act: A Review of Making Motherhood Work

by Melissa Bailey
…l she has children, and then oftentimes spends the remainder of her career compensating for this choice. Accommodations often mean American mothers step out of full-time work for an extended season and then focus the rest of their career on playing catch-up to their male counterparts. Collins’ goal is plainly stated in the first few pages of the book: “I issue a rallying cry for a movement centered on work-family justice. This change in phrasing m…
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April 21, 2022
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Conversations on Creation Care: A Review of Saving Us

by Carl Fictorie
…hristian, this book is better viewed as a work of practical psychology and communication. The book contains scientific material that defends the idea that climate change is real and human-induced, but it is not a structured argument. She discusses biblical reasons for accepting the reality of climate change, but the book is not a theology of creation care. The book contains many ideas for solutions both individual and collective, but is it not a h…
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September 24, 2020
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That Proverbs 31 Woman: A Review of The Preacher’s Wife

by Chandra Crane
…ender-and-authority-the-legacy-of-sibling-rivalry/  â†© https://religionnews.com/2019/04/06/comments-about-whiteness-prompt-walkout-at-sparrow-women-conference/  â†© Yet she did not include mention of, nor did she interview, Jackie Hill Perry, a black woman with much evangelical influence who identifies as formerly gay. Another strange oversight. Disappointingly, Bowler also left out differently abled evangelical celebrity women such as Joni Eareckson…
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June 13, 2019
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The Logic of Limitations: A Review of The Common Rule

by Justin Bailey
…ese things place further limitations on our freedom. But there is a deeper freedom—the freedom to become who we were created to be—that is found not in the absence of limitations, but in embracing the right limitations. My marriage vows limit me, but they also set me free. My children limit me profoundly, but they have also opened up enormous new space for me to experience love, joy and grace. The Scriptures limit me, but their limitations ultimat…
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March 2, 2021
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A Space For Thought: A Podcast Review of Poetry Unbound

by Jackson Nickolay
…allows us to explore how the gospel can speak into the lives of different communities—both communities of faith and secular ones. However, there are always limitations to our abilities to have cross-cultural experiences. Most often, these limitations are time, location, or, right now, the communal risk of a global pandemic. While poetry cannot fully take the place of spending time with someone from a different belief system or culture than your o…
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May 12, 2022
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Sinful Trumps Exceptional: A Review of We the Fallen People

by Scott Culpepper
…myths surrounding the holiday observance while still finding a core worth commemorating. The result was compelling and interesting to scholars and general readers alike. We the Fallen People, while a little more theoretical in its subject matter, remains grounded well enough to speak to popular audiences while offering some deeper reflections on doing history responsibly. We the Fallen People offers a historical mediation on eighteenth century vi…
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