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Nadya WilliamsBook ReviewsJournalSummer 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 2026FamilyCultureBook Reviews

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 SandersBook ReviewsCultureTechnologyJournalSummer 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.

Annie CrawfordJournalSummer 2026FormationCulture

From Babel to Belonging: C. S. Lewis’s Fairy-Tale Cure for the Modern Machine

'That Hideous Strength' is a story about how to live with faith and hope in a world threatened by chaos and tyranny.

JournalSummer 2026Health & MedicineBook ReviewsCultureMatthew Loftus

Man vs. Infectious Disease

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

Ashley HalesJournalSummer 2026Book ReviewsTheology

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.

JournalSummer 2026TheologyCultureJake Meador

Stewarding Land and Language

What is needed, rather, is some account that offers us a way to name the things that are higher than us, a way to love those things, and a way to tune our lives to them.

James WoodCultureBook ReviewsTheologyJournalSummer 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.

Book ReviewsSexualityFamilyCultureBeatrice 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. 

Book ReviewsTheologyDaniel 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.

Book ReviewsCultureFamilyVika PecherskyJournalSummer 2026

Bringing Up Nietzsche

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 HowardBook ReviewsFamilySummer 2026Journal

Constructing a Common Good

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.