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Easter 2013
Studies in Race, Religion, and the American South
Harold K. Bush
The Writings of Douglas John Hall
David Lott
Lent 2013
My Cross to Bear
  by Gregg Allman
J. D. Buhl
Advent-Christmas 2012
Revelations
  by Elaine Pagels
Don W. Davis
Michaelmas 2012
Martin Luther’s Anti-Semitism
  by Eric W. Gritsch
Darrell Jodock
Still
  by Lauren Winner

Acedia and Me
  by Kathleen Norris
Martha Greene Eads
Trinity 2012
The Hong Kierkegaard Library
  by Jack Schwandt
Richard Ylvisaker
Easter 2012
Framing the Secular: A Review Essay
Matthew Lundin
Lent 2012
Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind
  by Mark A. Noll
Laurence C. Sibley, Jr.
Advent-Christmas 2011
God's Own Party
  by Daniel K. Williams

From Bible Belt to Sun Belt
  by Darren Dochuk

To Serve God and Wal-Mart
  by Bethany Moreton
Joe Creech
Faith
  by Jennifer Haigh
Martha Greene Eads
Michaelmas 2011
The Aryan Jesus
  by Susannah Heschel
Thomas Albert Howard
Realizing Our Intentions
  by Albert Meyer

On Thinking Institutionally
  by Hugh Heclo
Michael G. Cartwright
Trinity 2011
God and the Atlantic
  by Thomas Albert Howard
Robert Benne
A Journey
  by Tony Blair

Decision Points
  by George W. Bush
Todd C. Ream and
Cory M. Sprunger
Easter 2011
Lit: A Memoir
  by Mary Karr
Martha Greene Eads
Lent 2011
Just War as Christian Discipleship
  by Daniel M. Bell
H. David Baer
Three Wishes
  by Carey Goldberg, Beth Jones,
  and Pamela Ferdinand
Agnes R. Howard
Advent-Christmas 2010
First Be Reconciled
  by Richard P. Church
Zachary R. Calo
Michaelmas 2010
Believing Again
  by Roger Lundin
Kevin Seidel
Onward Christian Athletes
  by Tom Krattenmaker
Alan Bloom
Trinity 2010
Hannah's Child
  by Stanley Hauerwas

God, Philosophy, Universities
  by Alasdair MacIntyre
David K. Weber
Justice: What's The Right Thing to Do?
  by Michael J. Sandel

Welcoming Justice
  by Charles March and
  John M. Perkins
Todd C. Ream
Cory M. Sprunger
Easter 2010
Review Essay:
  Moving Beyond Secularization
Joanne E. Myers
Lent 2010
Christian America
and the Kingdom of God
  by Richard T Hughes
Cordell P. Schulten
Theater and Incarnation
  by Max Harris
David S. Cunningham
Advent/Christmas 2009
How to Talk about Books
You Haven't Read
  by Pierre Bayard
Jerry Pattengale
The Rhteoric of Certitude
  by Gary L. Tandy
James Beasley
Michaelmas 2009
Original Sin: A Cultural History
  by Alan Jacobs
Benjamin J. B. Lipscomb
Evidence
  by Mary Oliver
D. S. Martin
Rise, O Church
  by Paul Westermeyer
Neil Elliott
Trinity 2009
A Hard Rain Felll
  by David Barber

Ravens in the Storm
  by Carl Oglesby

Underground
  by Mark Rudd
Todd C. Ream and
Cory M. Sprunger
Easter 2009
The Sacred and the Profane
  by Mircea Eliade

Technopoly
  by Neil Postman
Harold K. Bush, Jr.
Lent 2009
Playing with God: Religion and
Modern Sport
  by William J. Baker
Alan Bloom
Advent Christmas 2008
The Third Reich in Power
  by Richard J. Evans
Kevin Ostoyich
Liberating Tradition
  by Kristina LaCelle-Peterson
Todd C. Ream
Michaelmas 2008
Mission and Menance
  by Robert Jewett
Joe Creech
Christian Widsom
  by David F. Ford
Scott Huelin
Trinity 2008
Come Be My Light
  by Mother Theresa
Daniel Boerman
Easter 2008
The Spirit of Service
  Brian T. Johnson and
  Carolyn R. O'Grady, eds.
Jeffrey P. Bouman
Gladly Learn, Gladly Teach
  John Marson Dunaway, ed
John Fea
Lent 2008
Bible Road
  by Sam Fentress
Matthew S. Hedstrom
The Mystery of the Child
  by Martin E. Marty
Todd C. Ream
Advent/Christmas 2007
An Architecture of Immanence
  by Mark A. Torgenson
Peter W. Williams
The State of the University
  by Stanley Hauerwas
Scott Clyburn
Michaelmas 2007
The Way that Leads There
  by Gilbert Meilaender
James R. Peters
All That Is
  by Arthur Peacocke
James F. Moore
Trinity 2007
The Things That Matter
  by Edward Mendelson

Reading Like a Writer
  by Francine Prose

How to Read a Novel
  by John Sutherland
Matthew Duffus
Easter 2007
Educating for Shalom
  by Nicholas Wolterstorff
Joe Creech
Can Hope Endure?
  by James C. Kennedy
  and Caroline J. Simon
Todd C. Ream
Conflicting Allegiances
  Michael L. Budde and
  John Wright, eds.
Susan M. Felch
Lent 2007
The Redemptive Self
  by Dan McAdams
James M. Nelson
How Postmodernism Serves (My) Faith
  by Crystal Downing

Postmodernism 101
  by Heath White
Ian Marcus Corbin
Advent/Christmas 2006
Protestant Theology and the Making
of the Modern German University
  by Thomas Albert Howard
Todd C. Ream
The Time That Remains
  by Giorgio Agamben
James Beasley
Michaelmas 2006
The People's Work
  by Frank C. Senn
Michael B. Aune
Torture
  by John Perry
David Perry
Trinity 2006
The Ways of Judgment
  by Oliver O'Donovan

The Desire of the Nations
  by Oliver O'Donovan
Andrew Murphey
Easter 2006
Preaching without Contempt
  by Marilyn J. Salmon
Franklin T. Harkins
Lent 2006
Teaching as Believing
  by Chris Anderson
Gregory E. Ganssle
Advent/Christmas 2005
The Narnian
  by Alan Jacobs
David Weber
Michaelmas 2005
Catching Light
  by Roy Anker
Conrad Oswalt
Trinity 2005
Conceiving the Christian College
  by Duane Litfin
Thomas Albert Howard
People Get Ready
  by Robert Darden
Teresa L. Reed
Perspectives on an Evolving Creation
  Keith B. Miller, ed.
John Mullen

 

 

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