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A Quiet Life Sets Up a Loud Testimony
Excellence and steady faithfulness may win the culture war.
Book Reviews
Kierkegaard Is for the Deconstructor
The missionary to Christendom is also a missionary to modernity.
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Evidence of Objective Morality Is Hidden in Plain Sight
A new book finds this evidence in rational arguments. And in something those arguments can’t capture.
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An Unpersuasive Plea for Christians to Swing Left
Phil Christman’s apology for progressive politics ignores points of natural affinity with conservatives.
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Jesus Uses Money to Diagnose Our Spiritual Bankruptcy
A new book immerses us in the strange, subversive logic of his financial parables.
Book Awards
The Christianity Today Book Awards
Our picks for the books most likely to shape evangelical life, thought, and culture.
Theology Is Not a Waste
Far from being impractical, careful theological study is crucial to ordinary Christian life.
Jesus and My OCD
Christ’s death is the beginning of my relief from mental illness.
‘Evangelical Imagination’ Has Formed Us. But Can We Define It?
Metaphors, images, and stories orient us. But we must understand them first.
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The Flickering Flame of Intelligent Design
A new study asks why the ID movement hasn’t left a more enduring mark on scientific or religious thought.
Christian Parents’ Mistakes Aren’t the End of the Story
Q&A with author Kara K. Root about anxiety, trust, and raising kids well.
The Myth of Tech Utopianism
What a book on feminism helped me realize about our digital age.
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Don’t Erase Augustine’s Africanness
A new book recovers the significance of the church father’s geographic and cultural roots.
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A Woman’s Mental Work Is Never Done
Sociologist Allison Daminger’s new book on the cognitive labor of family life is insightful but incomplete.
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Wendell Berry’s Grief and Gratitude
They go together in his latest novel, as they will for readers who realize it might be his last.