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DC DISPATCH: Gas Range Rage

Greg Williams
March 20, 2023

Your personal choice in the matter is beside the point

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The Patient Is a Poor Historian

Agnes Howard
March 17, 2023

And the doctor usually is, too

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Serving the Work

John Fea
March 16, 2023

What can Dorothy Sayers teach us about intellectual work in a celebrity-driven culture?

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REVIEW: A Man for the Age of Tech Tycoons

Carolynn Roncaglia
March 15, 2023

The life of Crassus is worth remembering—especially on the ides of March

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Marginalia Matters

Robert Erle Barham
March 14, 2023

Books open up our lives—to ourselves, and to one another

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BOOK MARKS: A Sacred Obligation at Top Speed

Jon Boyd
March 13, 2023

“I’m thinking of calling a general strike of all writers until mankind finally comes to its senses. Would you support it?”

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Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man

Christopher Shannon
March 10, 2023

In The Banshees of Inisherin, Hollywood and serious film make their acquaintance once more

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REVIEW: Evangelicals + Celebrity = ?

D. G. Hart
March 9, 2023

Katelyn Beaty’s book makes this much clear: It’s a codependent love

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WDJD (What Did Jesus Do?)

Adam Jortner
March 8, 2023

Are American evangelicals willing to accept converts who remain on the left?

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Indiana Jones and Excavating Antiquity

Nadya Williams
March 7, 2023

It’s not about fortune and glory 

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THE OLASKY FILES: Justin Giboney, Christian and Democrat

Marvin Olasky
March 6, 2023

Love and truth, compassion and conviction, justice and righteousness: These belong together

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The Legacy of The Jesus Revolution

John Fea
March 3, 2023

What has Chuck Smith’s and Lonnie Frisbee’s hippie revival wrought?

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The Poisonwood Bible at 25

Timothy Larsen
March 2, 2023

Revisiting the Barbara Kingsolver bestseller—in which a person becomes a parable

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The Hidden Seasons of Grief

Dixie Dillon Lane
March 1, 2023

In the face of our social silence, human kindness is an irreplaceable balm

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REVIEW: “Nana Really Wants Me to Do This”

M. Elizabeth Carter
February 28, 2023

In Seventy Times Seven, mercy, pain, and justice meet in unanticipated ways

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FORUM: Tending to a Tradition

Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn
February 27, 2023

Book reviewing is a form of commentary upon which many of our greatest goods depend

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REVIEW: Decency Doesn’t Stop at the Border

Christopher Gehrz
February 24, 2023

Timely reflections for the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine 

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He Gets Us. Do We Get Each Other?

David John Seel Jr.
February 23, 2023

An advertising campaign of this magnitude invites—and requires—missional scrutiny

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Unfry Your Brain: Go to the Fronton

Elizabeth Stice
February 22, 2023

We aren’t everywhere. We’re somewhere. 

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REVIEW: What Would Adam Smith Do?

Daniel K. Williams
February 21, 2023

There may be no satisfying answer to this question, says Glory Liu

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FORUM: Bring on the Bazaar

James Romm
February 20, 2023

Thanks to books, fascination and satisfaction are nearer than you think

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