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A Review of Jesus for Everyone: Not Just Christians

I cannot decide if Amy-­Jill Levine’s recent book, Jesus for Everyone: Not Just Christians, is properly or poorly titled. To be sure, the reason for the wording is obvious. It is a book about Jesus written primarily for those who would not self-­identify as Christians. Levine notes in her introduction that she writes “to atheists,…
March 13, 2025
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Theologically Navigating Cinematic Multiverses with C. S. Lewis

The term “multiverse” has gained popularity in the last decade as a storytelling trope exploring alternate timelines based on different choices characters do, or could, make. Yet, while the term may have found popularity in recent years, particularly due to the popularity of the films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, this existential thought process is…
March 11, 2025
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Faithful Writing Pedagogy in the Age of Generative AI: A Sabbath-­Grounded Approach

Before the public launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in late 2022, discussions of AI in higher education were still relatively easy to avoid. While many people had begun to anticipate the impact of emerging AI technologies—some extolling the efficiencies promised by progressively sophisticated algorithms and others speculating apocalyptically about a world where these technologies gradually achieve…
March 11, 2025
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The Calling of the Christian as Citizen: Exploring Three Perspectives

Has something gone awry in Christian political engagement? Are Christians deficient in how they think and act in the political world, especially in the United States? The three books under review in this essay—Daniel Williams’s The Politics of the Cross: A Christian Alternative to Partisanship, Daniel Bennett’s Uneasy Citizenship: Embracing the Tension in Faith and…
March 11, 2025
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An Extended Review of Jesus and the Powers: Christian Political Witness in an Age of Totalitarian Terror and Dysfunctional Democracies

Harold Laswell famously defined politics as “who gets what, when, and how.” These decisions are surely as fraught now as they were when Aristotle wrote about politics in ancient Athens. Politics has always been about power: who has the power to determine who gets what, when, and how? When it comes to power, Christians live…
March 11, 2025
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A Review of Another Gospel: Christian Nationalism and the Crisis of Evangelical Identity.

In the past decade—or perhaps more precisely since the advent of Donald Trump into Republican politics—evangelical Protestants have debated so-­called “Christian nationalism,” a term that is so nebulous and so ill-­defined that it can loop in secularist Trumpist politics, Christian Reconstruction, and nearly anything else that is exotic enough to pique the interest—or derision, or…
March 11, 2025