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Anthony ScholleCultureBooksFormationJournalSpring 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 EhrettCultureBooksJournalSpring 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 HeavinBibleBooksJournalSpring 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 BilbroCultureBooksFormationJournalSpring 2025
Understanding the unhealthy ways people have sometimes approached reading can help us better understand the technological temptations of our moments.
Matthew LaPineBooksFormationJournalSpring 2025
Edith Hall's moving exploration of suicide in classical art is a striking but ultimately inadequate response to the problem of suicide.
Charlie ClarkCultureBooksGlobal
Williamson Murray's history of modern warfare raises the uncomfortable question of whether there even is such a thing as 'just war' anymore.
Bernard HowardBooksGlobal
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. WilliamsBooksJournalSpring 2025
The concept of charisma offers a striking new way of thinking about the relationship between religion and politics in the United States.
Rachel WelcherBooks
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 WilliamsCultureBooks
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 CunninghamCultureBooks
What prospects are there for democracy when society turns toward agonism? That is the troubling question James Davison Hunter considers in his latest book.
Amy MantravadiBooks
David Zahl's new book will be a welcome aid to anyone needing to hear the old, old story for the first time or for the 100th time.