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Tiffany Eberle Kriner teaches English at Wheaton College. She is also a mother, an organic farmer, a wife. She is a survivor of the pandemic, of cancer, of lesser deadly things like the tenure process. She is a writer. She is an anguished observer of the murder of George Floyd, a worrier that she may…

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…

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…

The Spirit of the Game is an admirable achievement. The history Paul Putz illuminates furthers our understanding of how a particular brand of Protestant Christianity came to dominate religious outreach and ministry in elite American intercollegiate and professional sports in the twentieth century. Putz argues that the emergence of sport ministry organizations such as the…

Becoming by Beholding is a retrieval project. Reaching back into the Christian tradition, Davis invites her readers on an “archeological dig into the historic Christian imaginative tradition” in order to recover the central role of the imagination in spiritual formation (x). Her ultimate aim in recovering and retrieving is to restore the readers’ vision, such…

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,…