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REVIEW: The Scientific Study of Religion We Don’t Need

Jesse Smith   |  March 19, 2025

A study of religion that serves two masters fails in predictable fashion

REVIEW: The Country Under Heaven

Jon D. Schaff   |  March 12, 2025

A haunted and haunting journey through uncanny (big) valley 

REVIEW: High Hawk

Melanie Springer Mock   |  March 10, 2025

All of life is a mystery

REVIEW: Against Worldview?

Rick Kennedy   |  March 6, 2025

Academic freedom + romantic individualism = one huge mistake

REVIEW: Storylife

Courtney J. P. Friesen   |  March 4, 2025

Homer for our time

REVIEW: Renaissance Man

Eric Miller   |  February 28, 2025

Charlie Peacock’s memoir drives deep into evangelicalism’s historic twentieth-century turn

REVIEW: Heavy Metal Nursing

Robert Erle Barham   |  February 20, 2025

Stay here. Feel this.

REVIEW: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln’s Union

Robert Tracy McKenzie   |  February 12, 2025

When religious nationalism becomes a religion of nationalism

REVIEW: Two-Step Devil

Paul Luikart   |  February 6, 2025

In her new novel, Jamie Quatro turns against facsimile for the sake of reality itself

REVIEW: Glimmers of Truth

LuElla D'Amico   |  February 5, 2025

We need a theology of fiction

REVIEW: California’s Pilgrimage

Rick Kennedy   |  February 4, 2025

What’s so special about the Golden State?

REVIEW: Slave Trading in the Civil War South

Evan Kutzler   |  February 3, 2025

The demands of capital savaged hope

REVIEW: The Beechers

Peter Porsche   |  January 29, 2025

America’s ‘most influential family’ had troubles familiar to most of us today

REVIEW: Our Nazi

John H. Haas   |  January 28, 2025

A past failure of moral judgment sounds an alert today

REVIEW: American Covenant

Shirley Mullen   |  January 22, 2025

Yuval Levin aims for institutional reform. He needs a different target.

REVIEW: Death of the Author

M. Elizabeth Carter   |  January 14, 2025

Can ever-advancing technology be brought under the reign of love?

REVIEW: Quiet in a World of Distraction 

Abigail Wilkinson Miller   |  January 9, 2025

Hope and quiet walk hand in hand

REVIEW: Hateful Jane Austen 

Jon D. Schaff   |  January 8, 2025

All you need is love?

REVIEW: X Factors

Jim Cullen   |  January 3, 2025

Harari synthesizes his synthesis in yet another masterwork

REVIEW: Wendell Berry’s New Decade of Sabbath Poems

Shirley Kilpatrick   |  December 23, 2024

The watcher is not alone

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