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Hannah Miller KingBook Reviews

The Prophetic Practice of Joy

Christianity forbids us from diminishing sin’s gravity or effects. We are compelled to grieve. But we have reason to rejoice because rescue has come.

Nadya WilliamsBook Reviews

Paul, Apostle of Grace: An Interview with Frank Thielman

Beeson Divinity School professor Frank Thielman discusses his new book on St Paul, which is a kind of theological biography of the apostle.

Nadya WilliamsBook Reviews

The Strange Saints of A. Muia’s Desert Between Two Seas

A recent award-winning novel tells the story of two modern-day desert saints.

Jake MeadorCultureChurchBook ReviewsFormation

Liturgies of the Wild and Non-Expressivist Religion

If you want people to be bewildered by church, then church needs to be weird in some way.

Nadya WilliamsChurchBook ReviewsFormation

Preparing for Lent and Easter with a Cloud of Witnesses

The new edition of Plough's Lent and Easter reader features 96 texts that will help us remember the strange anticipation and hope of the Christian faith.

Nadya WilliamsBook Reviews

God and Country: An Interview with John D. Wilsey

A conversation with historian John Wilsey on his latest book, how to learn from the past, and America's 250th anniversary

J. Todd BillingsCultureBook Reviews

White Hot Hate

What divides us now isn't primarily partisan or tribal. The division is between those who affirm a certain vision of human dignity and those who do not.

Michael HortonBook Reviews

An Excerpt from 'Magician and Mechanic' by Michael Horton

The second volume in Michael Horton's 'Sources of the Modern Self' series helps to explain the ascent of utopianism, amongst other things.

Joshua HeavinBook Reviews

Ryle's Vision of the Christian Life

The 19th century Anglican bishop J. C. Ryle offers a compelling and useful model for ministry and preaching in our own day.

Kirsten SandersBook ReviewsThe Magpie

Magpie 3: Gender and Kwaku’s Car

Sometimes what we need is not a top-down technique to fix an unjust system; we need to jerry-rig a solution within the parameters of our own context.

Trevin WaxChurchBook ReviewsFormation

The Rise and Fall of Confession—and What It Reveals

The collapse of confession in Catholic America may seem like a story about Rome, but it reveals something true about us all.

Daniel K. WilliamsBook Reviews

How Should Evangelicals Respond to the Vanishing Mainline?

What happens to religious life in America when the Protestant Mainline vanishes? That is the question facing everyone in America today, Christian or not.