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book reviews
Advent-Christmas 2011
Daniel K. Williams's God's Own Party, Darren Dochuk's From Bible Belt to Sun Belt, and Bethany Moreton's
To Serve God and Wal-Mart
Joe Creech
Jennifer Haigh's Faith
Martha Greene Eads
Michaelmas 2011
Susannah Heschel's
The Aryan Jesus
Thomas Albert Howard
Albert Meyer's Realizing Our Intentions
and Hugh Heclo's On Thinking Institutionally
Michael G. Cartwright
Trinity 2011
Thomas Albert Howard's
God and the Atlantic
Robert Benne
Tony Blair's A Journey and
George W. Bush's Decision Points
Todd C. Ream and
Cory M. Sprunger
Easter 2011
Mary Karr's
Lit: A Memoir
Martha Greene Eads
Lent 2011
Daniel M. Bell’s
Just War as Christian Discipleship
H. David Baer
Carey Goldberg,
Beth Jones, and
Pamela Ferdinand’s
Three Wishes
Agnes R. Howard
Advent-Christmas 2010
Richard P. Church’s
First Be Reconciled
Zachary R. Calo
Michaelmas 2010
Roger Lundin's
Believing Again
Kevin Seidel
Tom Krattenmaker's
Onward Christian Athletes
Alan Bloom
Trinity 2010
Stanley Hauerwas's
Hannah's Child
Alasdair MacIntyre's
God, Philosophy, Universities
David K. Weber
Michael J. Sandel's
Justice: What's The Right Thing to Do?
Charles March and John M. Perkins's
Welcoming Justice
Todd C. Ream
Cory M. Sprunger
Easter 2010
Review Essay
Moving Beyond Secularization
The State of Christian Higher Education
Joanne E. Myers
Lent 2010
Richard T Hughes's
Christian America and the Kingdom of God
Cordell P. Schulten
Handong Global University
Max Harris's
Theater and Incarnation
David S. Cunningham
Hope College
Advent/Christmas 2009
Pierre Bayard's
How to Talk about Books You Haven't Read
Jerry Pattengale
Indiana Wesleyan University
Gary L. Tandy's
The Rhteoric of Certitude: C. S. Lewis's Nonfiction Prose
James Beasley
University of North Florida
Michaelmas 2009
Alan Jacobs's
Original Sin: A Cultural History
Benjamin J. B. Lipscomb
Houghton College
Mary Oliver's Evidence
D. S. Martin
Paul Westermeyer's Rise, O Church
Neil Elliott
Trinity 2009
David Barber's A Hard Rain Felll
Carl Oglesby's Ravens in the Storm
and Mark Rudd's Underground
Todd C. Ream and
Cory M. Sprunger
Easter 2009
Mircea Eliade's The Sacred and the Profane
and Neil Postman's Technopoly
Harold K. Bush, Jr.
Lent 2009
William J. Baker's
Playing with God: Religion and
Modern Sport
Alan Bloom
Valparaiso University
Advent Christmas 2008
Richard J. Evans's
The Third Reich in Power
Kevin Ostoyich
Valparaiso University
Kristina LaCelle-Peterson's
Liberating Tradition: Women's Identity and Vocation in Christian Perspective
Todd C. Ream
Indiana Wesleyan University
Michaelmas 2008
Robert Jewett's
Mission and Menance:
Four Centuries of American Religious Zeal

Joe Creech
Valparaiso University
David F. Ford's
Christian Widsom: Desiring God and Learning in Love
Scott Huelin
Valparaiso University
Trinity 2008
Mother Theresa's
Come Be My Light: The Private
Writings of the "Saint of Calcutta"
Daniel Boerman
Easter 2008
Brian T. Johnson and Carolyn R. O'Grady, eds. The Spirit of Service:
Exploring Faith, Service, and Social Justice in Higher Education
Jeffrey P. Bouman
Calvin College
John Marson Dunaway, ed
Gladly Learn, Gladly Teach
Living Out One's Calling in the Twenty-First Century Academy
John Fea
Messiah College
Lent 2008
Sam Fentress's Bible Road:
Signs of Faith in the American Landscape
Matthew S. Hedstrom
Princeton University
Martin E. Marty's
The Mystery of the Child
Todd C. Ream
Indiana Wesleyan University
Advent/Christmas 2007
Mark A. Torgenson's An Architecture of Immanence: Architecture for Worship and Ministry Today
Peter W. Williams
Miami University of Ohio
Stanley Hauerwas's The State of the University: Academic Knowledges and the Knowledge of God
Scott Clyburn
Yale University
Michaelmas 2007
Gilbert Meilaender's The Way that Leads There: Augustinian Reflections on the Christian Life
James R. Peters
University of the South
Arthur Peacocke's
All That Is: A Naturalistic Faith
for the Twenty-First Century
James F. Moore
Valparaiso University
Trinity 2007
Edward Mendelson's
The Things That Matter,
Francine Prose's Reading Like a Writer,
and John Sutherland's How to Read a Novel
Matthew Duffus
Easter 2007
Nicholas Wolterstorff's
Educating for Shalom: Essays on
Christian Higher Education
Joe Creech
James C. Kennedy and Caroline J. Simon's
Can Hope Endure? A Historical Case Study in Christian Higher Education
Todd C. Ream
Michael L. Budde and John Wright, eds.
Conflicting Allegiances: The Church-Based University in a Liberal Democratic Society
Susan M. Felch
Lent 2007
Dan McAdams's The Redemptive Self
James M. Nelson
Crystal Downing's How Postmodernism Serves (My) Faith and Heath White's Postmodernism 101
Ian Marcus Corbin
Advent/Christmas 2006
Thomas Albert Howard's Protestant Theology and the Making of the Modern German University
Todd C. Ream
Giorgio Agamben's The Time That Remains: A Commentary on the Letter to the Romans
James Beasley
Michaelmas 2006
Frank C. Senn's The People's Work: A Social History of the Liturgy
Michael B. Aune
John Perry's Torture: Religious Ethics and National Security
David Perry
Trinity 2006
Oliver O'Donovan's The Ways of Judgment and The Desire of the Nations
Andrew Murphey
Easter 2006
Marilyn J. Salmon's Preaching without Contempt: Overcoming Unintended Anti-Judaism
Franklin T. Harkins
Lent 2006
Chris Anderson's Teaching as Believing: Faith in the University
Gregory E. Ganssle
Advent/Christmas 2005
Alan Jacobs's The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis
David Weber
Michaelmas 2005
Roy Anker's Catching Light: Looking for God in the Movies
Conrad Oswalt
Trinity 2005
Duane Litfin's Conceiving the Christian College
Thomas Albert Howard
Robert Darden's People Get Ready: A New History of Black Gospel Music
Teresa L. Reed
Keith B. Miller, ed. Perspectives on an Evolving Creation
John Mullen