Reviews

The Courage to Welcome
Welcome drops all boundaries around the sacred space of her home, while her neighbors create impenetrable barriers and include her in their condemnation of the

Generously Reformed
…even with is flaws and shortcomings, the Reformed tradition can be a fruitful pathway for growing deeper into maturity in Christ, for hearing the testimony

Love, Friendship, and Humor: Project Hail Mary (Film)
And most importantly, hope.

The rules don’t apply. We’re not a typical company. A Review of Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI
In early April, the artificial intelligence (AI) firm OpenAI announced that it had acquired the technology and business talk show “TBPN.” I had never heard

Friendship, Sacrifice, and…Astrophysics? Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary (Book)
…at the intersection of desperation and hope.

The Outer Edges of Prayer
He declares, “This isn’t / exactly a prayer. It’s more / the unbelieving yelp of prey grabbed suddenly by a wolf . . . .”

God of All Promises: A Poetic Pilgrimage
“I have found possible and useful, in my own practice, to pray back the Bible to God, who dwells therein.”

Salvation, Providence, and the Embodied Gospel in Forevergreen
Through crisp visual effects that combine the feel of claymation and woodcarving, and wordless musical narration that swells at all the right moments to drive

Her Brother Was Falling Apart—She Chose to Stay Anyway
We are our own predicaments, too. Confessing our compulsions to compensate for whatever scripts we have internalized, we expend enormous effort to appear whole and

Discernment in the Digital Age: A review of AI Goes to Church
Todd Korpi’s AI Goes to Church is an engaging resource for Christian leaders exploring the implications of artificial intelligence for their ministry, even as it

History Lessons: Contextualized Faithfulness and Racial Justice
This book thus provided both a challenge and comfort for me, challenging because we readers need to consider how our Buechnerian callings should all involve

John Calvin: Refugee Theologian
Woo’s book arrives at a moment when refugees are at the center of many crises in our world, including here in North America.