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Reviewed by Lenore M. Knight Johnson, Sociology, Trinity Christian College Sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild, best known for her explorations into the intersections of work, family, and personal life, departs from her previous work and dives into the world of American political divisions in her most recent book, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning…

Reviewed by James S. Spiegel, Philosophy and Religion, Taylor University A long-standing criticism of open theism—at least since the emergence of the movement in the 1990s—is its failure to adequately account for God’s permission of evil. Why would God refrain from stopping rapes, murders, and child abuse when he could easily do so? The standard…

Reviewed by Michael J. Kallenberg, Denver, Colorado “But we can also see the illustration now as one thing, now as another. – So we interpret it, and see it as we interpret it.” – Ludwig WittgensteinLudwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, eds. P. M. S. Hacker and Joachim Schulte, trans. G. E. M. Anscombe, P. M. S.…

Reviewed by Michael Buratovich, Biochemistry, Spring Arbor University On July 7, 2016, Answers in Genesis’s Ark Encounter opened to the public. This attraction features an enormous wooden replica of Noah’s Ark, 510 feet long, 85 feet wide, and 51 feet high. The Ark Encounter and the exhibits housed within it argue that the Earth is…

Reviewed by David Brodnax, Sr., History, Trinity Christian College “The American founders read the Bible” (1). This first line in Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers aptly summarizes Daniel L. Dreisbach’s exploration of the Christian scriptures’ theological, literary, and rhetorical impact on the people who created American democracy. With this historical work, Dreisbach, a…