Academic
The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism – Daniel Hummel
I have a confession: Growing up I read every single Left Behind book. I don’t just mean the 12 books in the original series. Or the 3 prequels and 1 sequel. Or the 40 middle […]
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Loving Disagreement – Kathy Khang and Matt Mikalatos
Have you…like…been online recently? Read the comments of a news article? Had an uncomfortable conversation with that one very opinionated coworker? Maybe you are that one very opinionated coworker? We live in polarizing times. A […]
Non-Fiction
The Evangelical Imagination – Karen Swallow Prior
There’s a classic book by Mark Noll called The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind that beings with “The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind.” When it […]
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What If Jesus Was Serious About Heaven – Skye Jethani
Skye Jethani’s “What if Jesus was Serious?” books are sort of like blog posts being printed out and bound in book form. And I mean that as a compliment. In fact, I wonder if the […]
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Wake Up to Wonder – Karen Wright Marsh
Wake Up to Wonder is a collection of twenty-two devotional essays with practical suggestions—the author calls them “invitations”—to help readers become more in tune with the amazing things that surround them. It’s an eclectic work, […]
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The Ballot and the Bible – Kaitlyn Schiess
There’s an image that stands out to me when I think of how Scripture has been weaponized and misused in American politics: It’s then-President Donald Trump, stern-faced, holding a Bible in front of St. John’s […]
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Meaning in the Moment – Amy F. David Abdallah
Growing up in an evangelical church, the word “ritual” was almost a curse word. It was identified with old, dead religion where people did what they did not because they really felt it but because […]
Academic
Jesus, Jubilee, and the Politics of God’s Reign – Christian T. Collins Winn
I’ve had this book for several months and not written a review of it because I kept waiting to feel like I could write something that could do justice to how transformative this book has […]
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bell hooks’ Spiritual Vision – Nadra Nittle
I must admit that before bell hooks died in December of 2021, the sum of my knowledge about her was that she eschewed the use of capital letters in her nom de plume and that […]
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In Church as it is in Heaven – Jamaal Williams and Timothy Paul Jones
What interested me the most with In Church as it is in Heaven was the subtitle: Cultivating a Multiethnic Kingdom Culture. I thought that phrase was interesting since, in my experience, many churches desire diversity, […]