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Reviewed by Rick Ostrander, Ostrander Academic Consulting It is no secret that Christian liberal arts colleges in the United States face significant challenges. Shrinking pools of high school graduates in some regions have led to stagnant or declining enrollments at many private institutions, creating significant financial pressures. Moreover, career-oriented parents often question the value of…

Reviewed by Peter J. Snyder, Business, Calvin University The Prosperity Paradox is an important new book that takes a somewhat different look at the issue of poverty. Using the lens of innovation, Clayton Christensen, Efosa Ojomo, and Karen Dillon range across, to greater and lesser extents, economics, public policy, history, sociology, and development to reframe…

Reviewed by Louis Markos, Humanities, Houston Baptist University I spent the latter half of the 1980s as a graduate student at the University of Michigan and as a member of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. We discussed and debated many books in our IVCF meetings, but the one I remember that inspired some of our most fruitful…

Reviewed by Clark Bates, Fellow at the Text and Canon Institute, Phoenix Seminary Can We Trust the Gospels? is a concise, compelling and erudite compilation of multiple lines of evidence intended to demonstrate the reliability of the four New Testament Gospels, and ultimately the rationality of the Christian faith. At a brief 140 pages, the…