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James WoodCultureBooksTheologyJournalSummer 2026
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
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
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
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
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.
BooksCultureFamilyVika PecherskyJournalSummer 2026
We desperately need popular-level engagement with skepticism, especially the Nietzschean kind, in our churches. 'The Devil Reads Nietzsche' is a timely resource for many Christians, who might feel beaten down by the skepticism and even nihilism of our times.
Agnes HowardBooksFamilySummer 2026Journal
My confidence about families in the future is fueled not so much by political reform or the normalizing of gender-neutral chore spreadsheets, but because I have seen so many astonishing young people who understand themselves as making together the life they value together.
Griffin GoochFormationBooks
Pieper offers a generation inundated by irony, anxiety, productivity-obsession, and cynicism a unique account of joy that owes less to mindless optimism than the rational consequences of recognizing the goodness of reality.
Health and MedicineBooksCultureAmy Mantravadi
Loftus's critique of therapeutic culture is not academic analysis as much as personal. He desires genuine healing precisely because of his close experience with sickness.
BooksChurchMichael Niebauer
Churches that choose to utilize a lectionary will discover an ancient, faithful encounter with God’s word that highlights the rich harmonic interconnectedness of Old Testament, New Testament, liturgy, and the life of the people of God
Kirsten SandersThe MagpieBooks
Readers seem less interested in the subject matter than in having their own prior opinions endorsed. But what good nonfiction needs is the integrity of an author who knows what she thinks and takes ownership of it.
Emily McArthurBibleBooksTheology
Sophocles cannot rectify the tragic suffering of his hero without imagining a savior who momentarily intervenes.