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Anthony ScholleCultureBook ReviewsFormationJournalSpring 2025
Erik Baker's history of entrepreneurialism is wide-ranging, sometimes too much so. But the moments of greatest clarity are memorable and pack a punch.
John EhrettCultureBook ReviewsJournalSpring 2025
Somewhat surprisingly, the biggest problem with Steven D. Smith's 'Fiction, Lies, and the Authority of Law' is that it isn't radical enough.
Joshua HeavinBibleBook ReviewsJournalSpring 2025
Though his academic achievements are many, what is most remarkable about the life and work of Richard B. Gaffin is the spirit of humility that defines him.
Jeff BilbroCultureBook ReviewsFormationJournalSpring 2025
Understanding the unhealthy ways people have sometimes approached reading can help us better understand the technological temptations of our moments.
Matthew LaPineBook ReviewsFormationJournalSpring 2025
Edith Hall's moving exploration of suicide in classical art is a striking but ultimately inadequate response to the problem of suicide.
Charlie ClarkCultureBook ReviewsGlobal
Williamson Murray's history of modern warfare raises the uncomfortable question of whether there even is such a thing as 'just war' anymore.
Bernard HowardBook ReviewsGlobal
Munther Isaac's 'Christ in the Rubble' ultimately fails because of a lack of realism, a loose relationship to facts, and subtle anti-Semitism.
Daniel K. WilliamsBook ReviewsJournalSpring 2025
The concept of charisma offers a striking new way of thinking about the relationship between religion and politics in the United States.
Rachel WelcherBook Reviews
Jeffrey Bilbro's 'Exiles Journey' excels because he gives his readers a place to stand, somewhere to be as they encounter his earthy images.
Nadya WilliamsCultureBook Reviews
A question lingers behind the Mahmoud v Taylor decision: Why is today's children's literature so bad? And why do we keep giving bad books to kids?
Nadya WilliamsCultureBook Reviews
A question lingers behind the Mahmoud v Taylor decision: Why is today's children's literature so bad? And why do we keep giving bad books to kids?
Scott CunninghamCultureBook Reviews
What prospects are there for democracy when society turns toward agonism? That is the troubling question James Davison Hunter considers in his latest book.