Reviews

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.

Being the Church in the World: Lessons from Mother Emanuel
At a time when the federal government is removing historical signs and webpages pertaining to Black history, this book seems particularly important. When pastors are

Anata No Monogatari Wa Watashi No Monogatari Demo Arimasu (Your Story Is My Story)
While only modestly aware of the challenges confronting missionaries in a Japanese culture that resists the Christian message, I was very much aware of the

Shepherding Souls in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: A review of AI Shepherds and Electric Sheep
There is a certain fatigue brought on by the barrage of “AI.” AI assistants, AI overviews, AI copilots; just about anything you might want to

Intense Attention and Stone Yard Devotional
Simone Weil once said, “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” This is what Wood achieves: a book of intense attention.

The Courage to Keep Talking: How Dialogue Transforms Conflict into Community
How can we collectively move toward the goal of becoming more like Christ, not through manipulative or authoritarian tactics, but by embodying Christ’s patience, compassion,

The Hollowing Out of Church and Culture
What Burge sees in recent data is a deepening polarization with a diminishing basis in belief.