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Nadya WilliamsBooksJournalFall 2025

What Has War to Do with Motherhood?

We cannot take the value and the beauty of this vulnerability for granted. Sargeant’s book makes no sense outside the Judaeo-Christian worldview.

Rachel Roth AldhizerBooksFormationJournalFall 2025

The Presence of Christ in Our Dependence

Dependence has a language. Need has a way of speaking to us and calling for help, even when it cannot do so with words.

Agnes HowardBooksJournalFall 2025

Dependent in the First Place

Americans prefer to think of dependence as a preparatory step before we turn into what we really are—autonomous self-makers. Sargeant skewers this folly.

Bonnie KristianBooksJournalFall 2025

Leftists Should Be Christian

Christman's provocative title makes some good arguments, but is burdened by sloppy argumentation and poor engagement with its sources.

Kyle WilliamsBooksJournalFall 2025

Tall Tales of Abundance

Their ability to describe material problems is immense, yet Klein and Thompson routinely struggle to arrive at deeper political wisdom.

Justin HawkinsBooksJournalFall 2025

Joys That Only Saints Can Know

Leppin's biography of St Francis admirably complicates the life of the great saint, but sometimes in ways that still look a lot like debunking.

Nadya WilliamsBooks

Child of These Tears

Suffering—bodily and spiritual—is the thread connecting all persons and events in this book. How do we face great suffering that upheaves our lives?

Kirsten SandersBooks

The Magpie No. 1: Inventing Purity Culture

Shopping for a homecoming dress for my daughter made me long for the restrictions of purity culture, which at least left me with my own boundaries intact.

Amy MantravadiBooks

The Case for Bringing Back Verse Plays

Though barely attempted today, plays written in verse were once quite common. J. C. Scharl's latest is a triumph for the genre and a joy to read.

Nadya WilliamsBooks

Charles Williams, All Hallows’ Eve: 80 Years Later

An interview with the Charles Williams scholar Grevel Lindop marking the eightieth anniversary of Williams's final novel: 'All Hallows Eve'

Joshua HeavinTheologyBooks

Union with Christ and the Life of Faith

Fred Sanders's latest book will deepen your understanding of our union with Christ and move your heart to worship Jesus.

Amy HallBooks

God's Witness In True Myths: The Story of the Peace Child

Every culture has its own myths and stories that resonate with the Christian gospel.