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Beneath the Swirling Sky [a review]

A fun, lively adventure through the world of art for upper-elementary readers.
Tags: kidsartexpressionadventure
May 5, 2023

Amish Technology

Perhaps rather than building software tools to garner ourselves a big fat exit, it might be better to think of ourselves like the village blacksmith who makes excellent tools for the community. Not looking to exit, but to stay.
Tags: technologyamishtools
April 25, 2023

What the Church Has Always Taught

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
Tags: historychurchbiblenew testament
April 23, 2023

Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church [a review]

There are plenty of books that examine the lives of historical women in Scripture as a whole, and there are also plenty of books interacting with Scripture on a theological level with regard to the question of women in the Church. The downside of the…
Tags: historywomenbiblenew testament
March 28, 2023

The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis [a review]

An insightful exploration of the Evangelical social imaginary, what makes it up, and why Evangelicalism is the way it is.
Tags: social imaginarycharles taylorevangelicalism
March 21, 2023

The Great Story and the Great Commission [a review]

It is not so much that God has a mission for the church as that God has the church for his mission.
Tags: great commissiongrand narrativebiblical theologyevangelismmission
February 15, 2023

Critical Mass [a review]

A delightful novel about how humanity gets their foothold in space.
Tags: sci fimoonmass driverdaniel suarezspace
January 27, 2023

Non-Toxic Masculinity: Recovering Healthy Male Sexuality [a review]

A compassionate, gracious vision for a masculinity that channels embodied male advantage for the good of others.
Tags: sexualitymasculinitygenderpurity culturetheology
January 7, 2023

How to Inhabit Time [a review]

A lovely meditation on being a creature formed and bound by the flow of history.
Tags: philosophytheologytimetrauma
August 21, 2022

Strangers and Scapegoats: Extending God's Welcome to Those on the Margins [a review]

A fascinating, reflective book on the sociological/theological theme of the stranger, how strangers become scapegoats, and what hospitality can look like in a fractured world.
Tags: sociologyimmigrationstrangersscapegoatsintersex
July 18, 2022
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