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Book ReviewsBibleCultureGillis Harp

Christian Politics Without Idolatry

'Reimagining Biblical Politics' is an invaluable resource that provides the sort of insightful and practical Bible-based reflection that has been so conspicuously absent from many American churches.

JournalSummer 2026Health & MedicineBook ReviewsCultureMatthew Loftus

Man vs. Infectious Disease

The history told in 'The Great Shadow' is vast but incomplete.

Ashley HalesJournalSummer 2026Book ReviewsTheology

We Still Need Fairy Tales

Zipes correctly diagnoses how fairy tales name the longing for the world to be different than it is, but he misses the cure.

James WoodCultureBook ReviewsTheologyJournalSummer 2026

The Return of the Common Good

Stefan Borg’s The Return of the Common Good: The Postliberal Project Left and Right arrives as a welcome—and much-needed—intervention in the liberalism debates.

Joseph OrsoFormationBook ReviewsFamily

When Everything Is Forgotten

The following excerpt from Joseph Orso, On the Threshold of Worlds: Tending My Father Before and After His Last Breath is published with permission from Front Porch Republic Books and

Book ReviewsFamilyHolly Stockley

The Case for Tending Our Dead at Home

Minor quibbles about practicalities aside, this book about caring for our dead and reclaiming old rituals and practices that once made up the fabric of community is really asking a deeper question: What stitches us to our places?

Book ReviewsSexualityFamilyCultureBeatrice ScudelerJournalSummer 2026

Something 'Wicked' This Way Comes

Gress doesn’t deliver on her promise of a rigorous, methodical takedown of feminism as an ideology. Her account is partial at best, and misleading at worst. 

Book ReviewsTheologyDaniel K. WilliamsJournalSummer 2026

“To Shew the Truth Of the Evangelical Historie”: The Apologetics of Nathaniel Lardner

Lardner treated skeptical questions seriously and respectfully, and unlike many previous Christian apologists, he never resorted to invective or denigration when debating his skeptical opponents.

Book ReviewsCultureFamilyVika PecherskyJournalSummer 2026

Bringing Up Nietzsche

We desperately need popular-level engagement with skepticism, especially the Nietzschean kind, in our churches. 'The Devil Reads Nietzsche' is a timely resource for many Christians, who might feel beaten down by the skepticism and even nihilism of our times. 

Agnes HowardBook ReviewsFamilySummer 2026Journal

Constructing a Common Good

My confidence about families in the future is fueled not so much by political reform or the normalizing of gender-neutral chore spreadsheets, but because I have seen so many astonishing young people who understand themselves as making together the life they value together.

Griffin GoochFormationBook Reviews

Why You Should Read Josef Pieper

Pieper offers a generation inundated by irony, anxiety, productivity-obsession, and cynicism a unique account of joy that owes less to mindless optimism than the rational consequences of recognizing the goodness of reality.

Health and MedicineBook ReviewsCultureAmy Mantravadi

When Therapy Culture Comes to Church

Loftus's critique of therapeutic culture is not academic analysis as much as personal. He desires genuine healing precisely because of his close experience with sickness.