Brad East

Jonathan Linebaugh’s pastoral, accessible invitation to Scripture is rightly focused on Christ but uncertain in its audience and too quiet about the church.

The West has long agreed: Hitler is all we aspire not to be. But Alec Ryrie’s new book shows this waning consensus can’t uphold all our public ethics.

The early church earnestly considered the question of Gentile observance of Jewish law and customs. Their answer was a firm no.

Jesus, the writers of the New Testament, and observant Jews never say the name of God. So why is saying it such a trend among American Christians?

Michael Huerter’s The Hybrid Congregation is an earnest effort to enrich our worship. It is also naive, superficial, incurious, and wrong.

Clare Morell’s The Tech Exit succeeds where so many volumes fail, never flinching at the digital crisis faced by families, schools, and churches today.

But we are also tasked with knowing truth from lies, real hope from false hope, the breath of the Spirit from the suffocation of deceit.

It’s our adoption into God’s family and the seal of our union with Christ. We don’t take it seriously enough.

The Catholic journalist’s new book updates Pascal’s wager for our secular-yet-spooky age.