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Bonhoeffer’s America: A Land Without Reformationby joel looperbaylor university, 272 pages, $54.99 There is no theology here,” Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote to a friend shortly after arriving in America in 1930....
Why Rise of Skywalker Fails
Amongst Dickens’s many perfectly named characters, Thomas Gradgrind may be one of the most horrifying. Gradgrind, a villain in the novel Hard Times, is the quintessential modern education reformer, a...
Chick-fil-A Chickens Out
For years, Chick-fil-A has been a useful case study for fusionists and libertarian-minded social conservatives. The company has coexisted with woke businesses while normalizing Christian values, honoring the Sabbath,...
The Nashville Statement and the PCA
At a time when many Protestant denominations are concentrated in specific regions, the Presbyterian Church in America is one of the few truly national denominations. We have roots in...
Why We Need Loome Theological Booksellers
It’s not typical to stumble into a small-town bookstore and be greeted by the sounds of Gregorian chant and a bookshelf featuring the works of Emil Brunner, Pope St....
Evangelical Liturgy, High and Low
Evangelical versus Liturgical?: Defying a Dichotomymelanie rosseerdmans, 165 pages, $17 Ever since the 1994 publication of the Evangelicals and Catholics together document (ECT), and with renewed urgency in the...
Reading Wendell Berry on Marriage
Do Wendell Berry’s recent comments in support of gay marriage reveal a broader flaw in his work, as some critics have claimed? For that to be the case, his...
