CFP Episode 135: Modern Female Friendships
Episode 135: Modern Female Friendships Ilia Danner Grubbs, Christina Bieber Lake, and Sara Klooster discuss Kayleen Schaefer’s book Text Me When You Get Home WELCOME INTRODUCTIONS SEGMENT 1: KNOWING We…
The Christian Feminist Podcast Episode 111: Gender Equality in Parenting and Domestic Labor
Episode 111: Gender Equality in Parenting and Domestic Labor Stream or download this episode. Ilia Danner Grubbs, Victoria Reynolds Farmer, and Katie Norman Grubbs discuss Darcy Lockman’s book All the…
Book Review: “The University We Need” by Warren Treadgold
The University we need... but maybe not the one we deserve.
Book Review: “Politicians” By Bruce Chapman
There may be one or two Americans left in the country who don’t know that we are currently living in an anti-Establishment, anti-professional, anti-politician era. Nationally we have voted someone…
Book Review: “Last Call for Liberty” by Os Guinness
Os Guinness argues—rightly, I think—that America today is really two nations with incompatible views of fundamental ideas. And while until now these two views have lived in a sort-of uneasy…
Book Review: “How Democracies Die” by Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt
There are a number of things that could be said about the nuts and bolts of Steven Levitsky’s and Daniel Ziblatt’s book How Democracies Die (Crown: 2018). For example, one could push…
Book Review: “Rethinking Incarceration” by Dominique DuBois Gilliard
I wish that Rethinking Incarceration by Dominique DuBois Gilliard were a better book—theologically and politically—because Gilliard has some important things to say. What’s more, he is generally a competent writer. Rethinking Incarceration is…
Review of “A Reader’s Guide to the Major Writings of Jonathan Edwards” by Nathan A. Finn and Jeremy M. Kimble (eds)
“I resonate with the lament of Os Guinness and David Wells that evangelicalism today is basking briefly in the sunlight of hollow success. Evangelical industries of television and radio and…
Review of “The Vanishing American Adult” by Senator Ben Sasse
That the American people are increasingly petulant and immature is so common an observation that it is very nearly a tired one at this point. Fortunately, Senator Ben Sasse has…
Stories Still Matter: A Review of Ask the Question for Baker Book Bloggers
Ask the Question: Why We Must Demand Religious Clarity from our Presidential Candidates by Stephen Mansfield 251 pp. Baker Books. $19.99 The book’s title poses a riddle that Ask the…
Mind the Drama: A Review of Plato and the Elements of Dialogue by John H. Fritz
Plato and the Elements of Dialogue by John H. Fritz 186 pp. Lexington Books. $85.00 Every time any writer does philosophy, John H. Fritz reminds us, we’re dealing with an…
Book Review: After the New Atheist Debate
After the New Atheist Debate By Phil Ryan 196 pp. University of Toronto Press $22.95. Of all the books written regarding the “New Atheist” (hereafter, NA) phenomenon, this the first that I’ve…
Book Review: “The Third Covenant: The Transmission of Consciousness in the work of Pierre Teilhard De Chardin, Thomas Berry, and Albert J. LaChance”
The Third Covenant: The Transmission of Consciousness in the work of Pierre Teilhard De Chardin, Thomas Berry, and Albert J. LaChance By Albert J. LaChance and Rebecca LaChance Goodwin 192…
My Colleague J.R.R. Tolkien: A Review of Tolkien’s Beowulf Translation
Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien 425 pp. Houghton MIfflin Harcourt. $28.00 There’s a special kind of joy that fills the air when a…