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What Good is Perspective-­Taking if No One Changes Their Perspective?

The speakers stood in the free speech quad and were accompanied by towering ten-­foot signs. The signs condemned homosexuality with Bible passages—painted in crimson red—as support. At a progressive public university, they immediately attracted a crowd looking for a verbal fight. The confrontation happened right outside the communication building where I was starting my master’s…
December 8, 2025
Review and Response

A Biography Worthy of the Genius of Blaise Pascal

The French polymath, Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), has rightly been called a masterful writer who shaped French prose, a brilliant mathematician, a pathbreaking experimental scientist, an inventor, a witty polemicist (The Provincial Letters), an apt and original Christian apologist (Pensées), and an acute philosopher, both in the disciplines of philosophy of science and philosophy of religion.Blaise…
December 8, 2025
Reviews

A Review of Becoming the Pastor’s Wife

Becoming the Pastor’s Wife gets interesting immediately, with its subtitle: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman’s Path to Ministry. When was ordination ever a common path for women? Hasn’t “pastor’s wife” always been the Christian ideal? Beth Allison Barr, professor of history at Baylor University, delves into the intrigue evoked by the book’s cover…
December 8, 2025
Reviews

A Review of Word Made Fresh

If poetry is ever going to matter again to Christians, we’ll need interesting, winsome, accessible teachers and books to explain the value of verse and show us how it works. One doesn’t naturally “develop a taste” for poetry. We must be taught. Abram Van Engen’s Word Made Fresh can refresh our palate and nourish our…
December 8, 2025
Review Essays

Returning to Religion in Shakespeare Studies – A Review Essay (Part 2)

David Anonby also begins Shakespeare on Salvation: Crossing the Reformation Divide with a reasoned defense for his engagement with religion in Shakespeare, invoking some of the same scholars that Oser does in his introduction. Anonby describes those in the turn to religion who have challenged the “secularizing narrative of the theater” (4), before turning to…
September 10, 2025
BlogReviews

A Review of David I. Smith, Everyday Christian Teaching: A Guide to Practicing Faith in the Classroom

David I. Smith’s most recent book, Everyday Christian Teaching: A Guide to Practicing Faith in the Classroom, represents yet another of his significant and vital contributions to Christian education. Commencing with an invitation to wisdom for teachers and their students, Smith offers philosophical insights along with practical strategies for authentically integrating faith into teaching practices.…
September 5, 2025