Privilege, Repentance, Forgiveness
Identifying privilege offers insight into grace and allows us to take responsibility for both our own responses and the needs of others.
Blessed Are the Homesick
The independent rootlessness of emerging adults presents potent opportunities for the practice of hospitality.
Prodigal City
The bankruptcy of Detroit is a consequence of multi-faceted social problems that defy simple solutions and pat answers. To love the city will require more than creative thinking.
Strange Gods
Scalia’s book exemplifies a recent shift from conceiving of sin as moral transgression, to viewing it as false worship.
The Evangelicals You Don’t Know
A generous attempt at acquainting an urban, secular audience with young, post-culture war Evangelicals buries stereotypes, but it raises a question it cannot answer.
On God’s Side
While Wallis’s conceptual framework for Christian political engagement is solid, his attempt to translate that framework to concrete action points is disorganized and unconvincing.
Against Fairness
Asma’s rejection of egalitarianism as the ultimate social virtue makes room for grace and the search for a values based on more than mere equality of treatment.
The Village
The Village offers fascinating pictures of bohemians and radicals, but this book presents an ultimately disillusioning picture of their lifestyle.
The End of Our Exploring
Anderson’s book contains many bits of wisdom about how to question well, but struggles to speak about questioning in ways that are relatable to the uncommitted and agnostic.
What We Are: Mind, Body, and the Danger of Dualisms
From the relationship of the mind and body to the search for true political freedom, dualisms can both inform and hinder our understanding of ourselves and our world.