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

The Desecration of Man: How the Rejection of God Degrades Our Humanity. Carl Trueman. Sentinel Press, April 2026. $29, 256 pp. - Over a century ago, Max Weber characterized modernity

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.

Erik CoonceBook ReviewsChurch

A Scrapbook of Pastoral Care

What ought to occupy a pastor’s time? Long-time pastor Reuben Bredenhof attempts to address that question in his book 'The Ministry of Small Things.'

Elizabeth SticeBook Reviews

Baa, Ram, You?

The One and the Ninety-Nine rests on a 'simple' premise: 'Each of us is torn between belonging and differentiation; few ever learn to manage that tension.'

Nadya WilliamsBook Reviews

The Midlist, the Middlemen and the Future of American Literature

Because writers take time to grow and develop, it's good that they have long runways. But in today's publishing world, the runways are shorter than ever.

Vika PecherskyBook ReviewsFormation

The Miracle of Communion: to Know and to Love as God

'The Brothers Karamazov' shows a moment in which two people encounter each other not as objects of conquest but as beloved subjects and common persons.

Alan NobleBook Reviews

To Live Well: Bonus Question and Answer

Our interview with Alan Noble went long, so we are sharing some bonus Q and A that Noble did over email following the interview.

Joseph MinichBook Reviews

Whose Time? Whose World?

Rosa's latest book continues his probing investigation into 'modernity.' But it is unclear if Rosa's theory of resonance can do all that needs to be done.