Reviews

Taylor’s inclusion of the natural sciences affords the reader a brief glimpse “under the hood” to the physiological workings of the human body. Citing examples from artistic mediums, such as painting, dance, and architecture, Taylor next draws the reader’s attention to benefits offered through incorporating the arts into worship, stating the arts appeal to our five senses, connect us with our emotions, and deepen our understanding through imagination and metaphor.

These poems—there are more than seventy here--are not only well-made, but are brutally honest, rich in their presentation of the natural world, and marvelously imaginative.

As grotesque and shocking as Deadpool and Wolverine might be for many people, shouldn’t the scandal of the Cross leave me more shocked, while strangely, joyfully aware of the strange mercy of the Jesus of the Gospels?

Chasing Beauty is an important contribution not only to biography, but to enlarging the narratives of American women’s lives.

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, the world, and one’s place in it and opens the Bible in the expectation of finding them there. But where in this rather sprawling collection of disparate books does one even begin?

It is this attention to systems and populations that distinguishes epidemiology from other forms of health-related science. It’s also one of the things I am drawn to as a public health practitioner and is sometimes missing in conversations about health.  

Practicing gratitude gave me hope for the future, helped me rest in God’s presence, and allowed me to live into the fullness of who God has created me to be.

Daphne and Miles’ stories are complicated, yet relatable, and we empathize with them because we all have our own friendships or relationships that come and go, and leave imprints on our lives, for better or worse.