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With a “crisis” of purpose haunting higher education, American institutions explore the goals of their existence as their emerging adult occupants do the same with their purposes in the world. Today, the uncertainties of students rise as their commitments drop in relation to key components of adulthood (such as choice of major, marriage). Responding to…

Reviewed by Holly Ordway, Apologetics, Houston Baptist University “Apologetics? What’s that?” Chances are good that anyone who knows enough about the field to be interested in reading this review has heard that question before – perhaps many times. Sometimes it is followed by the joke, “Does that mean you’re apologizing for being a Christian? Ha,…

Reviewed by Young Lee Hertig, Global Studies and Sociology, Azusa Pacific University, Co-Founder/Executive Director of Institute for the Study of Asian American Christianity (ISAAC) The book title, The Spirit Moves West: Korean Missionaries in America, can set different expectations than when first turning the pages. After empirical research of the fundamentalist sectarian group, the University…

Reviewed by Christopher A. Franks, Religion and Philosophy, High Point University This is quite simply one of the most helpful books on Aquinas I have ever read. It does so many things well. It gives a compelling historical reconstruction of Aquinas. It shows the immense resources Aquinas offers for contemporary theologizing. And it demonstrates, practically…

Reviewed by David M. Johnstone, Residence Life, George Fox University The subject of faith and the university experience has long been a topic of discussion, and both the volumes reviewed here add to that complex conversation. They particularly focus on the current American student experience, providing reflections and data that lead to new and sometimes…

Reviewed by Jerold Waltman, Political Science, Baylor University The papers representing the 10 chapters of this book grew out of a symposium sponsored by the Religious Freedom Project at the University of Oklahoma; it is the inaugural volume in the University of Oklahoma Press’s new series on the American Constitutional Heritage. The usual rubs on…

Reviewed by Mark W. Cannister, Biblical Studies and Christian Ministries, Gordon College Based in part on her 2007 research study “Testimony and Formation,” Amanda Drury set out to develop a greater understanding of testimony as a faith practice that contributes to the spiritual formation of adolescents. Her research included a collection of interviews with adolescents,…