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Daniel K. WilliamsBook Reviews

What Type of Christian is J. D. Vance?

Vance says a lot about his longing for virtue, but he doesn’t define virtue as an imitation of Jesus’s life. Instead, Vance’s focus is on developing the qualities that make him a loving husband and father. 

Bill DavisBook Reviews

Arnold's Car Keys

How do you care for an aging parent whose mental decline has caused significant changes to their sense of judgment?

Book ReviewsRalph Wood

Drastic Unalikes: Flannery O’Connor and Her Mother

A new study of O'Connor is flawed by its inexcusable indifference to matters theological.

Agnes HowardBook ReviewsFamily

Motherhood, Never Done

When the world inflicts injuries on children, mothers feel the hurts too. Motherhood sticks in our faces the incommensurateness of us all, our insufficiency for each other, our desire for others’ good, our causing harm by trying to help.

Joshua HeavinBook Reviews

Jesus and the Law of Moses

Those who want to learn more about how Jesus relates to the law in his first-century context cannot improve upon Paul Sloan’s wonderful book, which will prove essential to anyone preaching or teaching from the synoptic gospels.

Michelle Van LoonBook Reviews

The Sure Way of Edith Stein

The greatest figures of prophecy and sanctity step forth out of the darkest night.

Book ReviewsCharles Carman

Hospitality, Desecration, Politics: A Review of Carl Trueman's 'The Desecration of Man'

There are domains where disenchantment may be unfit for, perhaps even a distraction from, a far more pressing crisis than belief in the mysterious. We need more than one framework to diagnose the modern crisis.

Jackson GreerBook Reviews

Agatha Christie Is Still Worth Reading

Christie wrote intelligent and insightful novels that, as she knew it, are middlebrow. While not all Christie books are of the same quality, her famous novels rightfully earned their place as classics of the genre, and she is worth a closer reading.

Benjamin PetersonBook Reviews

Community, Character, and the Governance of the Social Commons: Sanctuaries of Order

So much seems to be going wrong in our society. There is so much dissent, there are so many acts of violence, and there is so much division about the

Cameron ShafferChurchBook Reviews

The Church: One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic

Myles Werntz’s Contesting the Body of Christ: Ecclesiology’s Revolutionary Century is a refreshing and welcome contribution to ecclesiological discussions.

Joey SherrardBook Reviews

Augustine and the Glittering Vices of Christian Ministry

Augustine describes sin carefully to learn to see it. He does that not just so we can see it over there, but so we can learn to see it in ourselves.

John EhrettCultureBook Reviews

The Problem with 'Religion'

A key problem with Christian nationalist theories is that they presuppose the modernist conception of 'religion' that they ostensibly want to subvert.