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book reviews
Lent 2020
More Seats at the Table
  Nicholas Wolterstorff’s Religion in the University
Reviewed by Aaron Morrison
The Post-Modern Outsider
  John Fry's With the Dogstar as My Witness
Reviewed by Joshua Gage
Advent 2019
A Heavy Heart
  Marjorie Maddox’s Transplant, Transport, Transubstantiation
Reviewed by Janet McCann
Limiting Factors
  Paul Scherz's Science and Christian Ethics
Reviewed by Tim Grennan
Michaelmas 2019
The Extraordinary Ordinary
  Philip Kolin’s Reaching Forever
Reviewed by Luci Shaw
Trinity 2019
The Coen Brothers and the Comedy of Democracy
  by Sara MacDonald and Barry Craig
Reviewed by James Paul Old
Easter 2019
The Year of Our Lord 1943:
Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis
  by Alan Jacobs
Reviewed by Thomas Albert Howard
The Hemingway Files
  by H. K. Bush
Reviewed by Edward Uehling
Singing the Congregation
  by Monique M. Ingalls
Shout to the Lord
  by Ari Y. Kelman
Reviewed by Josh Langhoff
Lent 2019
The Hymnal: A Reading History
  by Christopher N. Phillips
Reviewed by Daniel Silliman
Advent-Christmas 2018
He Held Radical Light
  by Christian Wiman
Reviewed by Whitney Rio-Ross
On Education, Formation, Citizenship, and the Lost Purpose of Learning
  by Joseph Clair
Reviewed by Kevin Gary
Michaelmas 2018
What Will Soon Take Place
  by Tania Runyan
Reviewed by Nathaniel Lee Hansen
Trinity 2018
Uncommon Prayer
  by Michael Plekon
Reviewed by Nicholas Denysenko
Christ on the Psych Ward
  by David Finnegan-Hosey
Reviewed by Brent Schnipke
Painstaker
  by Jeffrey Galbraith
Reviewed by Katie Karnehm-Esh
The Consequence of Moonlight
  by Sofia Starnes
Reviewed by Marjorie Maddox
Easter 2018
Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America
  by David A. Hollinger
Reviewed by Joe Creech
The Refugees
  by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Reviewed by John Ruff
At This Time and In This Place: Vocations in Higher Education
  edited by David S. Cunningham
Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism
  by Molly Worthen
Teaching in Christian Imagination
  edited by David I. Smith and Susan M. Felch
A New Moral Vision: Gender, Religion, and the Changing Purposes of American Higher Education, 1837-1917
  by Andrea L. Turpin
The 2017 Lilly Fellow Program Book Award Winners Reviewed by Jennifer L. Miller
Lent 2018
A Political Companion to Flannery O'Connor
  edited by Henry T. Edmondson III
Reviewed by James Paul Old
A Gathering of Larksby Abigail Carroll and
   Still Pilgrim by Angela Alaimo O'Donnell
Reviewed by Joshua Gage
Advent 2017
Remembering the Reformation:
   An Inquiry into the Meaning of Protestantism
  by Thomas Albert Howard
Reviewed by Xueying Wang
Gift and Promise:The Augsburg Confession
  and the Heart of Christian Theology
  by Edward Schroeder
   edited by Ronald Neustadt and Stephen Hitchcock
Reviewed by Frederick A. Niedner
The New Testament: A Translation
   by David Bentley Hart
Reviewed by Brett Beasley
Just Immigration: American Policy in Christian Perspective
   by Mark R. Amstutz
Reviewed by Peter Meilaender
The Year of Small Things: Radical Faith for the Rest of Us
   by Sarah Arthur and Erin F. Wasinger
Reviewed by Aimee Fritz
book reviews
Michaelmas 2017
Reading for the Common Good
   by C. Christopher Smith and
Books for Living
  by Will Schwalbe
Reviewed by Todd C. Ream
Tasty Other
  by Katie Manning
Reviewed by Rebekah Denison Hewitt
Trinity 2017
Churchscape:
Megachurches and the Iconography of Environment
  by Susan Power Bratton
Reviewed by Mark D. Bjelland
The Paraclete Poetry Anthology:
Selected and New Poems
  edited by Mark S. Burrows
Reviewed by Brad Fruhauff
Lincoln in the Bardo
  by George Saunders
Reviewed by W. Brett Wiley
From Nothing
  by Anya Krugovoy Silver
Reviewed by Jeffrey Galbraith
Easter 2017
Rumba Under Fire:
The Arts of Survival from West Point to Delhi
  edited by Irina Dumitrescu
Reviewed by Cara Strickland
Realizing the Distinctive University:
Vision and Values, Strategies and Culture
  by Mark William Roche
Reviewed by Mel Piehl
Lent 2017
Charles of the Desert: A Life in Verse
  by William Woolfitt
Reviewed by Marci Rae Johnson
True, False, None of the Above
  by Marjorie Maddox
Reviewed by Callie Feyen
Wake, Sleeper
  by Bryan Parys
Reviewed by Liz Boltz Ranfeld
A Well of Wonder: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and the Inklings
  by Clyde S. Kilby, edited by Loren Wilkinson and Keith Call
Reviewed by Toby F. Coley
Advent-Christmas 2016
Sea Glass: New and Selected Poems
  by Luci Shaw
Reviewed by Katie Manning
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
  by Angela Duckworth
Reviewed by Todd C. Ream
Being Lutheran:
Living in the Faith You Have Received
  by A. Trevor Sutton
Reviewed by Joel Kurz
Michaelmas 2016
Public Faith in Action
  by Miroslav Volf and Ryan McAnnally-Linz
Reviewed by Aaron Morrison
The Reformation of Suffering:
Pastoral Theology and Lay Piety in Late Medieval and Early Germany
  by Ronald K. Rittgers
Reviewed by Anna Marie Johnson
Trinity 2016
Plato’s Bedroom
  by David K. O’Connor
Reviewed by David K. Weber
Emmett Till in Different States
and Departures
  by Philip C. Kolin
Reviewed by Devon Miller-Duggan
Easter 2016
Beginning with the Word
  by Roger Lundin

The Pietist Vision of Christian Higher Education
  by Christopher Gehrz

Becoming Beholders
  by Karen E. Eifler and Thomas M. Landy
Reviewed by Jennifer Miller

 

The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being
  by Alice Roberts
Reviewed by Agnes Howard
Lent 2016
Not in God's Name
  by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
Reviewed by Thomas Albert Howard
These Intricacies
  by Dave Harrity
Reviewed by Brad Fruhauff
Advent-Christmas 2015
The Multitude
  by Hannah Faith Notess
Reviewed by Dyana Herron
A Literary Education
and Other Essays
  by Joseph Epstein
Reviewed by Harold K. Bush
Michaelmas 2015
The World Made Straight
  by Ron Rash
Reviewed by Martha Greene Eads
Go Set A Watchman
  by Harper Lee
Reviewed by Fredrick Barton
Sapiens
  by Yuval Noah Harari
Reviewed by David K. Weber
The Martian
  by Andy Weir
Reviewed by Jennifer Miller
How Dante Can Save Your Life
  by Rod Dreher
Reviewed by Gabriel Haley
Trinity 2015
The Book of Strange New Things
  by Michel Faber
Reviewed by Susan Bruxvoort Lipscomb
Easter 2015
The Good Lord Bird
  by James McBride
Reviewed by Robert Elder
St. Peter's B-List
  by Mary Ann B. Miller
Reviewed by Brad Fruhauff
Lent 2015
Lila
  by Marilynne Robinson
Reviewed by Mel Piehl
In the Kingdom of the Ditch
  by Todd Davis
Reviewed by Brett Foster
Friendship
  by A.C. Grayling
Friendship as Sacred Knowing
  by Samuel Kimbriel
Reviewed by Andrew G. Deskins and Todd C. Ream
Advent-Christmas 2014
Light upon Light
  by Sarah Arthur
Reviewed by Nathaniel Lee Hansen
Wool
  by Hugh Howey
Reviewed by Erin Strybis
Michaelmas 2014
How (Not) to Be Secular
  by James K. A. Smith
Reviewed by Harold K. Bush
Trinity 2014
Second Sky
  by Tania Runyan
Reviewed by Nathaniel Lee Hansen
Approaching the End
  by Stanley Hauerwas
Reviewed by Ian Clausen
Easter 2014
A Season for Change
A review essay by Jennifer L. Miller
Lent 2014
Divine Kingdom, Holy Order
The Political Writings of Martin Luther
  by Jarrett Carty
Reviewed by Geoffrey C. Bowden
Advent/Christmas 2013
The Little Way of Ruthie Leming
  by Rod Dreher
Reviewed by Todd C. Ream
Michaelmas 2013
Changing Signs of Truth
  by Crystal Downing
Reviewed by Jason Moyer
Trinity 2013
My Bright Abyss
  by Christian Wiman
Reviewed by Brett Foster
Easter 2013
Studies in Race, Religion, and the American South
Reviewed by Harold K. Bush
The Writings of Douglas John Hall
Reviewed by David Lott
Lent 2013
My Cross to Bear
  by Gregg Allman
Reviewed by J. D. Buhl
Advent-Christmas 2012
Revelations
  by Elaine Pagels
Reviewed by Don W. Davis
Michaelmas 2012
Martin Luther’s Anti-Semitism
  by Eric W. Gritsch
Reviewed by Darrell Jodock
Still
  by Lauren Winner
Acedia and Me
  by Kathleen Norris
Reviewed by Martha Greene Eads
Trinity 2012
The Hong Kierkegaard Library
  by Jack Schwandt
Reviewed by Richard Ylvisaker
Easter 2012
Framing the Secular: A Review Essay
Reviewed by Matthew Lundin
Lent 2012
Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind
  by Mark A. Noll
Reviewed by 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
Reviewed by Joe Creech
Faith
  by Jennifer Haigh
Reviewed by Martha Greene Eads
Michaelmas 2011
The Aryan Jesus
  by Susannah Heschel
Reviewed by Thomas Albert Howard
Realizing Our Intentions
  by Albert Meyer
On Thinking Institutionally
  by Hugh Heclo
Reviewed by Michael G. Cartwright
Trinity 2011
God and the Atlantic
  by Thomas Albert Howard
Reviewed by Robert Benne
A Journey
  by Tony Blair
Decision Points
  by George W. Bush
Reviewed by Todd C. Ream and
Cory M. Sprunger
Easter 2011
Lit: A Memoir
  by Mary Karr
Reviewed by Martha Greene Eads
Lent 2011
Just War as Christian Discipleship
  by Daniel M. Bell
Reviewed by H. David Baer
Three Wishes
  by Carey Goldberg, Beth Jones,
  and Pamela Ferdinand
Reviewed by Agnes R. Howard
Advent-Christmas 2010
First Be Reconciled
  by Richard P. Church
Reviewed by Zachary R. Calo
Michaelmas 2010
Believing Again
  by Roger Lundin
Reviewed by Kevin Seidel
Onward Christian Athletes
  by Tom Krattenmaker
Reviewed by Alan Bloom
Trinity 2010
Hannah's Child
  by Stanley Hauerwas
God, Philosophy, Universities
  by Alasdair MacIntyre
Reviewed by David K. Weber
Justice: What's The Right Thing to Do?
  by Michael J. Sandel
Welcoming Justice
  by Charles Marsh and
  John M. Perkins
Reviewed by Todd C. Ream and Cory M. Sprunger
Easter 2010
Review Essay:
  Moving Beyond Secularization
  by Joanne E. Myers
Lent 2010
Christian America and the Kingdom of God
  by Richard T Hughes
Reviewed by Cordell P. Schulten
Theater and Incarnation
  by Max Harris
Reviewed by David S. Cunningham
Advent/Christmas 2009
How to Talk about BooksYou Haven't Read
  by Pierre Bayard
Reviewed by Jerry Pattengale
The Rhteoric of Certitude
  by Gary L. Tandy
Reviewed by James Beasley
Michaelmas 2009
Original Sin: A Cultural History
  by Alan Jacobs
Reviewed by Benjamin J. B. Lipscomb
Evidence
  by Mary Oliver

Reviewed by D. S. Martin
Rise, O Church
  by Paul Westermeyer
Reviewed by Neil Elliott
Trinity 2009
A Hard Rain Felll
  by David Barber
Ravens in the Storm
  by Carl Oglesby
Underground
  by Mark Rudd
Reviewed by Todd C. Ream and
Cory M. Sprunger
Easter 2009
The Sacred and the Profane
  by Mircea Eliade
Technopoly
  by Neil Postman
Reviewed by Harold K. Bush, Jr.
Lent 2009
Playing with God: Religion and Modern Sport
  by William J. Baker
Reviewed by Alan Bloom
Advent Christmas 2008
The Third Reich in Power
  by Richard J. Evans
Reviewed by Kevin Ostoyich
Liberating Tradition
  by Kristina LaCelle-Peterson
Reviewed by Todd C. Ream
Michaelmas 2008
Mission and Menance
  by Robert Jewett
Reviewed by Joe Creech
Christian Widsom
  by David F. Ford
Reviewed by Scott Huelin
Trinity 2008
Come Be My Light
  by Mother Theresa
Reviewed by Daniel Boerman
Easter 2008
The Spirit of Service
  Brian T. Johnson and
  Carolyn R. O'Grady, eds.
Reviewed by Jeffrey P. Bouman
Gladly Learn, Gladly Teach
  John Marson Dunaway, ed
Reviewed by John Fea
Lent 2008
Bible Road
  by Sam Fentress
Reviewed by Matthew S. Hedstrom
The Mystery of the Child
  by Martin E. Marty
Reviewed by Todd C. Ream
Advent/Christmas 2007
An Architecture of Immanence
  by Mark A. Torgenson
Reviewed by Peter W. Williams
The State of the University
  by Stanley Hauerwas
Reviewed by Scott Clyburn
Michaelmas 2007
The Way that Leads There
  by Gilbert Meilaender
Reviewed by James R. Peters
All That Is
  by Arthur Peacocke
Reviewed by 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
Reviewed by Matthew Duffus
Easter 2007
Educating for Shalom
  by Nicholas Wolterstorff
Reviewed by Joe Creech
Can Hope Endure?
  by James C. Kennedy
  and Caroline J. Simon
Reviewed by Todd C. Ream
Conflicting Allegiances
  Michael L. Budde and John Wright, eds.
Reviewed by Susan M. Felch
Lent 2007
The Redemptive Self
  by Dan McAdams
Reviewed by James M. Nelson
How Postmodernism Serves (My) Faith
  by Crystal Downing
Postmodernism 101
  by Heath White
Reviewed by Ian Marcus Corbin
Advent/Christmas 2006
Protestant Theology and the Making
of the Modern German University
  by Thomas Albert Howard
Reviewed by Todd C. Ream
The Time That Remains
  by Giorgio Agamben
Reviewed by James Beasley
Michaelmas 2006
The People's Work
  by Frank C. Senn
Reviewed by Michael B. Aune
Torture
  by John Perry
Reviewed by David Perry
Trinity 2006
The Ways of Judgment
  by Oliver O'Donovan
The Desire of the Nations
  by Oliver O'Donovan
Reviewed by Andrew Murphey
Easter 2006
Preaching without Contempt
  by Marilyn J. Salmon
Reviewed by Franklin T. Harkins
Lent 2006
Teaching as Believing
  by Chris Anderson
Reviewed by Gregory E. Ganssle
Advent/Christmas 2005
The Narnian
  by Alan Jacobs
Reviewed by David Weber
Michaelmas 2005
Catching Light
  by Roy Anker
Reviewed by Conrad Oswalt
Trinity 2005
Conceiving the Christian College
  by Duane Litfin
Reviewed by Thomas Albert Howard
People Get Ready
  by Robert Darden
Reviewed by Teresa L. Reed
Perspectives on an Evolving Creation
  by Keith B. Miller, ed.
Reviewed by John Mullen

 

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