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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.

Joshua HeavinTheologyFormationSummer 2026Journal

What is Union with Christ?

Union with Christ is not the kind of thing one grasps and then moves on from; it is an infinite, inexhaustible well that is the key to the whole of the Christian life.

JournalSummer 2026CultureEducationBrian Auten

Being a Public School Kid

There was nothing remotely directly or indirectly “woke” or “leftist” about Mrs. Higuchi’s public school classroom. There was no “indoctrination.” It wasn’t about empathy or sympathy. Instead, it was something much more classically humanist — perhaps even personalist. She taught love.