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REVIEW: Reading as Divine Encounter

Andrew J. Pottenger   |  October 2, 2024

David Michelson recovers an ancient spiritual practice

PREVIEW: The Spirit of the Game

Paul Emory Putz   |  September 30, 2024

Christians and big-time sports: It’s more than ‘Sportianity’

REVIEW: The Salt of the Universe

Lisa Diller   |  September 27, 2024

Amy Leach reckons with her heritage while staying faithful to it

REVIEW: Is Potty-Training What You Will Do with Your One Wild and Precious Life?

Agnes Howard   |  September 23, 2024

On the merits and limits of pro-natal progressivism

REVIEW: The After Party

Sadie Vanderzyden   |  September 17, 2024

In search of political and ecclesial sanity

REVIEW: Shepherds for Sale?

Daniel K. Williams   |  September 16, 2024

Megan Basham’s theology is compromised and her history misguided

Interview: Timothy Larsen on George MacDonald’s Diary of an Old Soul

Timothy Larsen and Nadya Williams   |  September 13, 2024

Timothy Larsen is the McManis Professor of Christian Thought and Professor of History at Wheaton College. He is a Contributing Editor at Current and as of this summer, the author of four books on the nineteenth-century Scottish George MacDonald. This […]

REVIEW: The Realm of the Dog

Katy Carl   |  September 11, 2024

In Paul Luikart’s stories, raw strength and immense depth work side-by-side

REVIEW: Where Is Freedom in This Book?

Jon D. Schaff   |  September 10, 2024

Timothy Snyder’s thin take on freedom reflects larger, more troubling deficits

LONG FORM: Whose Culture? Which Solidarity?

Christopher Shannon   |  September 9, 2024

Further reflections on James Davison Hunter’s ‘Democracy and Solidarity’

REVIEW: Homeschooling Boys

Ivana Greco   |  August 30, 2024

Educators could benefit from a very close reading of Calvin and Hobbes

REVIEW: A Manual for Homeschooling

Dixie Dillon Lane   |  August 29, 2024

Swanson’s book provides inspiration of the most practical kind

REVIEW: Genesis by Way of Gilead

William B. Fullilove   |  August 23, 2024

What if John Ames’s sermons on Genesis were gathered in one volume?

 REVIEW: This Is Remarkable 

Tiffany Eberle Kriner   |  August 22, 2024

Reading Genesis with Marilynne Robinson

REVIEW: How Information Overload Destroyed American Democracy (Maybe)

Russell Arben Fox   |  August 14, 2024

Can a people survive when truth is beside the point?

REVIEW: Still the Jeremiad

Christopher Shannon   |  August 13, 2024

James Davison Hunter turns to ‘culture’ for hope. Can it deliver?

REVIEW: Richard Nixon’s Graceless Religion

Daniel K. Williams   |  August 8, 2024

Nixon sought redemption—but on his own terms

REVIEW: Pivot Points

John Plating   |  July 31, 2024

Marvin Olasky’s story puts politics in its place

Current’s 100 Books of the 21st Century

Nadya Williams   |  July 30, 2024

In response to NYT’s list of 100 books of the 21st century, we at Current have compiled our own list.

REVIEW: The Moral Vision of American Leaders

Christopher Gehrz   |  July 30, 2024

Olasky gives us America’s story through the lens of character, experience, and faith

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