It’s hard to think of another modern art form so successful at delivering spectacle as movies. Few movie subjects are more spectacular than science. “I

John H. Walton’s New Explorations in the Lost World of Genesis: Advances in the Origins Debate, written in collaboration with his son, J. Harvey Walton,

It felt like a betrayal of Christianity to have an “inkling that there could be more than one pathway to the Infinite.”

Ayers draws upon a vast knowledge of other great Christian thinkers; on art and music and literature, and what I can only imagine are a

A tuberculosis outbreak began in the Kansas City, KS area in January of last year (2024). The outbreak is ongoing, with seventy confirmed active cases

I have been waiting for this book for more than twenty years. You see, when I first read Mark Gornik’s 2002 book To Live in

by Angela Carpenter John Hendrix’s The Mythmakers defies simple explanation. On one level, it is the true story of a friendship and a testament to

I vividly remember my first “women supporting women” moment.  My friends and I were sitting in the back of the school bus in the Spring

I started reading When the Church Harms God’s People over six months ago. Typically, it takes me two or three weeks to read a book

I often avoid driving the road that passes by the land that once was my grandpa’s orchard. The apple trees are gone now, the old

When I taught Social Psychology in the spring, I began the semester with a story about a football game between Dartmouth and Princeton in 1951.

In an era when social justice movements often burn bright and fast, leaving exhausted activists in their wake, Wes Granberg-Michaelson offers something desperately needed: a

Moes and Riek’s motivation to write Integrating Psychology and Faith stemmed from teaching the psychology and religion capstone course for their university’s psychology major. They

Socrates, who famously said that the unexamined life is not worth living, never met Doyle Shields, the main character in Thomas Lynch’s novel No Prisoners.

I was 21, unmarried, and pregnant the day I sat across from my pastor, asking for help. My voice was trembling, my future uncertain. He

What if the Israeli-Palestinian war isn’t just a political dispute, but a colonial project with deep historical roots, and what if our understanding of Christian

I started asking for a horse in the third grade. My parents, wary of what might be a passing fancy, wisely refused. As I grew

The arrival of generative AI on top of algorithmic social media can feel like a pandemic on top of a pandemic for overwhelmed parents, educators,

How did we end up here? Again?   Is there a moment when family, friends, people I know and love will realize the massive manipulation campaign

Most of us are familiar with the “DNA as the blueprint of life” idea—that DNA contains all the information necessary to build an organism, whether

Green Street in Black and White shows us the history of who we have been as Christians, what we have said, how we have thought,

The problem with worldviewing, as Cook sees it, is the way it blinds us to the concrete reality of lived experience; our own and those

We may now be enjoying a golden age of Black American writers and directors using the horror movie to put all that heritage to use

In this book, Uli Chi gives us a glimpse of what makes a person a wise leader and draws from his own experiences as a

This is not a happy story, per se, but a good one. A story that reminds me that those quiet murmurings of our hearts, what

Travis West has written the book on Sabbath that we need right now.  And by “we” I mean all of us–the busy, the tired, the

Anyone looking at Neri Alvarado Borges’ tattoo knows there must be deep meaning behind it. Shaped like a loop of ribbon, it features a rainbow

This is an important book, combining careful research, insightful analysis, and brisk, clear writing. The story that Taylor uncovers is one that should be deeply

This book is a much-needed addition for addressing the current crisis in Christian consciousness.

The Traveler’s Path: Finding Spiritual Growth and Inspiration Through Travel by Doug Brouwer is a book for sojourners, and, if I’m not mistaken, that label

Through Wylie’s grizzled and weary portrayal of a dedicated Emergency Room Chief Resident, The Pitt reminds us of our need for good shepherds to guide

One of the “it” books of 2024, James has been enjoyed by many, including former president Barack Obama.

“In Afghanistan, you have to fear for the future of an educated child.”

Health professionals have long emphasized a certain mental toughness that, although quite functional and healthy in many ways, can sometimes lead to a dysfunctional and

I’m sorry to say, Holland is a dud, a movie with more plot holes than a piece of Swiss cheese (with no Gouda or Edam

Westfall encourages her readers to not only know and accept our belonging to God but also to live into the fact that belonging isn’t where

Schlanger’s extensive review of cutting-edge plant research reveals that our green neighbors have numerous tricks up their shady sleeves.

Amanda Tyler’s timely new book, How to End Christian Nationalism, is a short and accessible addition to an expanding list of books written by Christians

I highly recommend Invoking the Fathers to anyone interested in navigating the current moment in American history or improving their understanding and practice of rhetoric,

Healing What’s Within is like a two-hundred page conversation with a sage spiritual director.

Wylie-Kellermann’s book is a hope-filled, though realistic call to subvert the darkest version of that future through a variety of means.

Reading My Body is Not a Prayer Request was a signpost moment in my own life. Rather than a flash of sudden change, finding Kenny’s

Life in Flux is more than a book; it’s a lifeline for those adrift in uncertain times. By confronting cultural myths and presenting God’s timeless

Harrison Scott Key’s How to Stay Married is a story of trauma, past and present, a marriage gone off the rails with two wounded partners

While this film doesn’t trace how segments of the church ended up with a culture of toxic masculinity and prevalent sexual abuse (there are resources

Imagine being in a room with a biologist, a pastor, and a theologian, where you can freely ask any questions about evolution, and they each

As old institutions across America struggle for relevance today, this important book reminds us that there are simple things we can do to help preserve

Wright and Bird contend that we will not have an adequate account of Christian political witness if we do not keep together the cross and

. . . the movie presents Bonhoeffer’s overall witness and life in public theaters across the country to many thousands who may have barely known

Through his scientific summaries and speculative commentary, Oldroyd presents a compelling challenge: to continue to examine new scientific evidence and revise current theories, in line

Although widespread despair is a given, Enger reminds readers of what’s still to cherish.

This is where horror takes us: to that place of surrender, where what some consider to be the platitudes of Christianese suddenly have real power,

The God of Monkey Science examines the history of science denial and anti-intellectualism in the American Evangelical church beginning with the Scopes Monkey Trial of

Reed’s book is casual, down-to-earth, humorous, and deeply personal. I particularly enjoyed the little jokes, quips about herself, and sarcastic footnotes.

I was beyond intrigued when I learned that Richard Hays and his son Christopher Hays had written a new book on human sexuality. Like many,

Leah Payne’s God Gave Rock and Roll To You: A History of Contemporary Christian Music chronicles the confluence of evangelical, Pentecostal, and charismatic networks through

Rift, by author Cait West, offers an evocative and raw perspective on the very real implications of patriarchal structures within both restrictive fundamentalist cults as

The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: A Scientist’s Warning by Peter J. Hotez is a short, frightening analysis of the rise of anti-science sentiment in the

What can I say to convince you to read this book? It’s the best book on poetry I’ve read, but I doubt saying that helps

One of the stranger subplots of the racial reckoning that followed the killing of George Floyd in 2020 was the controversy that emerged around the

Toward the end of Kate DiCamillo’s children’s novel Ferris, Mr. Buoy, the elderly hardware store owner comments, “Yes indeed, there is a way out of

This is my first time writing a book review, and before I sat down to read Chasing Hope by Nicholas D. Kristof, I imagined the

In 2019, five years after Russian troops annexed the Crimean Peninsula, Sonya Bilocerkowycz published her first book, a collection of essays, On Our Way Home

Reading Genesis by the novelist and essayist Marilynne Robinson is occasionally aggravating, sometimes confounding, but mostly a brilliantly engaging encounter with the text. The opening

Normally, non-fiction isn’t my wheelhouse. As a middle school teacher, I tend to read books I can use in my classroom or fiction that makes

During the global COVID-19 pandemic, many church leaders and places of worship adopted or expanded virtual technologies to better allow digitally mediated worship to enter

I had never heard of Susan Cowger until I was asked to review Hawk and Songbird, her recently published books of poems, and I am

My daughter gave me a t-shirt, portraying classic white Jesus riding a velociraptor. It has some weird writing about creation and how much fun Jesus

Nineteenth-century novels are filled with women—strong, intelligent, ambitious women—looking for ways to survive in societies that seem to covet none of those three virtues for

Whoever has reflected on the relationship between scripture and doctrine will appreciate the following dilemma: a searching soul wants answers to existential questions about God,

An invitation to a kitchen table conversation is personal; it’s not a formal dinner invitation, rather an invitation to join in regular, everyday conversation with

When my boys were little and beginning to form sentences, I often prompted them to say “Please” and “Thank you”. It was the right thing

I picked up Emily Henry’s Beach Read a couple of years ago when I found out she was a fellow Hope College alum, and there

I love the season of Lent. It is long, reflective, and pulls us to a sturdy grounding of mortality and brokenness in order that we

            A brain that feels safe will not get stuck. The Science of Stuck: Breaking Through Inertia to Find Your Path Forward is a quick

Richard Dawkins is a vocal atheist and prolific author. He penned many best-selling books such as The Selfish Gene (1976), The Blind Watchmaker (1986), and

How comfortable are you with suffering? One of the challenges of Christian community, including the care offered by pastors, is how we keep company with

In the Acknowledgements of Unexpected Abundance: The Fruitful Lives of Women without Children, author and Episcopal priest Elizabeth Felicetti thanks her agent for something that

Christian Wiman’s intellect is profound, his faith gritty and honest, and his life story incredible. It is hard to believe someone raised in minimally functional

Could we become more compassionate, loving, grounded humans when we discover what makes us bloom? I can’t think of anything we need more of in

After my Children’s Literature class has read their first book of the semester, I often ask them whether they think that book is appropriate for

Every spring, around graduation time, my family goes dumpster diving at the nearby university.  Our intent is not to acquire, but rather to reduce waste

Ten minutes into watching the documentary God and Country, the muscles and tendons in my body began to tighten and tense up because it was

Every now and then a novelist comes along whose unique voice grips us from the first page—Cormac McCarthy, Marilynne Robinson, Brian Doyle come quickly to

Over twenty years ago, Pastor Roger Nelson was challenged: stay in one place, be faithful in preaching, and see what difference it makes.  By the

Annie, a joyful, literate soul who serves as an elder at my church, found me in the church lobby in between Christmas Eve services. “Merry

Near the end of active ordained ministry, I sensed that the religious and cultural dimensions of my community had shifted noticeably, even in the traditional

Ok. Hear me out.  I promise I will get around to reviewing Renaissance, a Film by Beyoncé, but first, I need to talk about Barbie.

Teachers of mathematics and parents of children who have a difficult time learning mathematics have long sought ways to teach and encourage those who don’t

During my last year of teaching, I read William Kent Krueger’s This Tender Land with my sophomore American Literature students. It was, as the author

In a recent class discussion on theological anthropology, one of my students raised herhand and offered the class the gift of vulnerable honesty. Looking around

I will admit it.  I had all the wrong ideas about this book.  When I saw that it was a novel-in-verse about German POWs picking

(Satchel talking with Bucky, recovering after falling from a window): “Don’t believe in the laws of gravity, eh?” “I’m fine with the laws. It’s the

Like many children raised in the 1960’s, I was taught that guns were for soldiers and police officers and certainly not for play. My brothers

I have great affection for Steven Garber, author of The Seamless Life. I met Garber through Hope College’s Veritas Forum in 2003 when he introduced

I’ve spent more than thirty years studying cells of various types. First cells like those that make up human bodies (and their misbehaving counterparts—cancer cells)

“Oof.” That’s what my friend said. I had told her I was reading an extraordinary book called Scenes with My Son. She asked what it

When the Reformed Journal asked me to review David James Duncan’s new novel, Sun House, my response was immediate: “Respectfully, no way.” No novelist has

Many folks have written recently about how divided America is, especially in the post-2016 moment, but few have done so as gracefully as Jeff Sharlet

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Whenever I gather preachers to talk about the value of having a robust program of general reading to feed their sermon-writing endeavors, I always make

Jennifer Holberg’s (2023) new book, Nourishing Narratives: The Power of Story to Shape Our Faith, describes how our notions of story, even redeemed story, shape

Driving toward Denver for a brief family vacation in our light green 1967 Plymouth Fury III, I alternated with my mother as front-seat navigator. Mid-afternoon

Reviewing a book titled Charitable Writing: Cultivating Virtue Through Our Words presents a bit of a quandary.  If the review itself is not charitable, is

The first time I threw a punch it was because another middle schooler pushed me and called me “Chinese boy.” I’m bi-racial Filipino American, the

A few years ago, I had the opportunity to ask Eugene Heideman, who served the Reformed Church in America in a variety of roles for

David G. Firth is Tutor in Old Testament at Trinity College, Bristol, UK, and a research fellow of the University of Free State, South Africa.

About five years ago, a coworker at Rehoboth Christian school recommended a beautiful Advent devotional to me: All Creation Waits by Gayle Boss. Shortly after,

A 2020 Pew Research survey found that twenty-seven percent of all American adults thought Donald Trump’s 2016 election was “part of God’s overall plan.” Five

Some poetry collections are best read in one sitting so the connections between the poems and the overarching narrative are clear, but that is not

Throughout my forty years as a parish pastor, the national election every four years never failed to produce anxiety in the congregational system. Reflecting back on

One of the challenging realities about pastoral ministry is that it deals with intangibles. Over thecourse of the fifteen years I’ve spent in co-ministry with

Lifting the Veil by Malcolm Guite is “a defense of the imagination as a truth-bearing faculty, and more than that it is an appeal to

The headlines these days tell us that history—and especially the teaching of history—is a major front for the culture wars. In his new book Small

Michael Pollan’s fine body of work addressing the relationships between plants and humans has piqued readers’ curiosity for decades. He typically offers a provocative introduction

“It is possible for the Christian soldier to die the death of a martyr while fighting.” (5) This is the explosively provocative proposition at the

Refugia Faith is one of the best books in print on how people of faith can summon the hope and the courage needed to heal

As I prepared to retire, I joked with my wife that we could be on HGTV Property Virgins as first-time homebuyers. I imagined the narrator

In this book, Wirzba takes on the challenge of what many are calling the Anthropocene. Many scholars and scientists – but not all, of course

This is a book that demonstrates how evolution can inform and deepen Christian faith. Some books that integrate science and faith are helpful for reimagining

As the title suggests, Gijsbert Van den Brink’s Reformed Theology and Evolutionary Theory will be of particular interest to those in Reformed traditions. Non-Reformed readers,

Words harm and words heal. I am not sure words are ever neutral, ever just words. Turns out the old sticks and stones childhood rhyme was

As I passed the last two Friday evenings and Saturday mornings reading Power Women and then writing this book review, I was keenly meta-aware of

It would be remiss not to mention the synchronicity of reading The Sacred Pulse by April Fiet on the heels of finishing Winn Collier’s A

Makoto Fujimura has spent a career calling for Christian artists to take this field seriously and to care for our collective culture. He has told

Little Faith by Nickolas Butler is a perceptive novel that focuses on the joys of everyday life as well as the heartaches. The novel is

I passed by Fredrik Backman’s newest novel, Anxious People, as I was perusing the browsing section of my institution’s library. I didn’t think that a

It’s inevitable that “new” books are released posthumously by those who, like Eugene Peterson, have sold a lot of books. The question for readers and

“All Christians agree that Christ came to earth to save us from sin and death. But there seems to be less agreement about what he

The Doctrine of Creation: A Constructive Kuyperian Approach is an account of the Christian doctrine of creation written from a Kuyperian neo-Calvinist perspective. Its co-authors,

In Robert Macfarlane’s Underland, a botanist called Merlin Sheldrake describes the messiness and difficulty of a research stint he once spent studying ghost plants in

I suspect even the most casual observer of current events recognizes the world seems aflame. Not only is there, after more than a year, a

Theft is one of the central works of the enemy of the human soul. Scripture states in John 10:10 that the thief comes only to

In “Finally Comes The Poet, Daring Speech for Proclamation,” published in 1989, Walter Brueggemann declares to pastors honing their preaching skills:      “When the text comes

Klara and the Sun is Kazuo Ishiguro’s newest novel, his eighth, and first since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017. The story takes

Call For Justice is an exchange of letters between Nicholas Wolterstorff and Kurt Ver Beek, one of the co-founders of the Association for a More

The year that has passed since Kristin Kobes Du Mez published her New York Times best seller, Jesus and John Wayne, has been a politically

“History is…an important way of thinking through the questions about what a university is, what it does, what it should do, and who and what

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a semi-aristocratic German theologian and minister who, through family connections, joined a conspiracy to overthrow the Third Reich. Having decided that a

Early on in the book Caste, Isabel Wilkerson invokes a metaphor familiar to anyone conversant with Jesus’s parables.  She says that society is like a

At first glance, the subtitle of Jennifer M. McBride’s book, Radical Discipleship: A Liturgical Politics of the Gospel (Fortress Press, 2017) might appear to embody

Willie Jennings, now a professor at Yale Divinity School, was an academic dean at Duke Divinity School for ten years, has been teaching divinity students

It has been one hundred years since Herman Bavinck died. Much has changed and shifted in our world in the last ten years, let alone

Thomas Lynch has a singular voice in American literature. Although an accomplished poet and essayist, it’s his day job as owner of Lynch and Sons

Esau McCaulley’s Reading While Black is a detailed analysis and explication of the African American biblical interpretive enterprise as seen in its traditional ecclesial life

I am made in such a way that when events happen in our world that trouble me, I read to better understand them. I have

My wife and I are the parents of three children, two of whom have Down syndrome. I vividly remember a church service some years back

In an era of American politics in which Christian political engagement on both sides of the political divide is more often driven by one’s partisan

One of the hard realities I regularly encounter in my work as a pastor is that of suffering. Sit with someone long enough, listen to

Years ago I had the chance to spend a day with the legendary basketball coach John Wooden. Someone asked him who the greatest coaches were,

As I write this review, the Covid death toll in the United States has exceeded 400,000; worldwide the count is well over 2 million.  The

Occasionally, a book’s design makes it a beautiful thing unto itself, regardless of the content inside. Something special happens, then, when the words inside exceed

In her Lenten devotional, Gayle Boss aims to awaken us to the interconnections between our existence and that of our fauna kin. Beginning on Ash

In my work with preservice teachers and in conversations with colleagues at Hope College, I frequently engage in questions of what it means to integrate

For anyone familiar with the interdisciplinary conversation in theology and the arts, Jeremy Begbie’s name is well known. Begbie has been arguing for music –

There is no doubt that there is a wave of movements to Christ sweeping across the Islamic world, and this testimony by Abu Atallah with

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