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J. V. FeskoTheologyBooks

Defending the Faith Like the Apostle Paul

While one can fire verbal projectiles from a distance at the critics of Christianity, how effective is such an apologetic approach?

Nadya WilliamsBooksJournalSummer 2026FamilySexuality

Cultivating a Well-Ordered Anthropology in a Dehumanizing World

We’re today’s Roman emperors, declaring ourselves gods. It’s going about as well for us as it did for folks like Nero.

Tessa CarmanJournalSummer 2026FamilyCultureBooks

Homeschooling Is More Normal Than You Think

Homeschooling matters because by its very nature—in all its non-standardized, messy, unwieldy glory—it is a movement against the professionalization, standardization, and replacement of the human being.

Kirsten SandersBooksCultureTechnologyJournalSummer 2026

Apocalypse Now

Park thinks that apocalypse can tuck us deeper into the world, like the dead who are buried in the natural cemeteries she describes. But she cannot hold onto the belief that accompanied this vision for burying the dead.

BooksBibleCultureGillis Harp

Christian Politics Without Idolatry

'Reimagining Biblical Politics' is an invaluable resource that provides the sort of insightful and practical Bible-based reflection that has been so conspicuously absent from many American churches.

JournalSummer 2026Health & MedicineBooksCultureMatthew Loftus

Man vs. Infectious Disease

The history told in 'The Great Shadow' is vast but incomplete.

Ashley HalesJournalSummer 2026BooksTheology

We Still Need Fairy Tales

Zipes correctly diagnoses how fairy tales name the longing for the world to be different than it is, but he misses the cure.

James WoodCultureBooksTheologyJournalSummer 2026

The Return of the Common Good

Stefan Borg’s The Return of the Common Good: The Postliberal Project Left and Right arrives as a welcome—and much-needed—intervention in the liberalism debates.

Joseph OrsoFormationBooksFamily

When Everything Is Forgotten

The following excerpt from Joseph Orso, On the Threshold of Worlds: Tending My Father Before and After His Last Breath is published with permission from Front Porch Republic Books and

BooksFamilyHolly Stockley

The Case for Tending Our Dead at Home

Minor quibbles about practicalities aside, this book about caring for our dead and reclaiming old rituals and practices that once made up the fabric of community is really asking a deeper question: What stitches us to our places?

BooksSexualityFamilyCultureBeatrice ScudelerJournalSummer 2026

Something 'Wicked' This Way Comes

Gress doesn’t deliver on her promise of a rigorous, methodical takedown of feminism as an ideology. Her account is partial at best, and misleading at worst. 

BooksTheologyDaniel K. WilliamsJournalSummer 2026

“To Shew the Truth Of the Evangelical Historie”: The Apologetics of Nathaniel Lardner

Lardner treated skeptical questions seriously and respectfully, and unlike many previous Christian apologists, he never resorted to invective or denigration when debating his skeptical opponents.