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Donald Roth

Comfort in the Canons: A Review of Saving the Reformation Book ReviewsTheology

Comfort in the Canons: A Review of Saving the Reformation

Title: Saving the Reformation: The Pastoral Theology of the Canons of DordtAuthor: W. Robert GodfreyPublisher: Reformation Trust PublishingPublishing Date: January 24, 2019Pages: 265 pages (Hardcover)ISBN: 978-1642890303 What is the heart of the Reformed faith? Many of us grew up hearing Calvinism defined by “five points,” often in the form of the acronym…
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July 27, 2026
American Christians: A Review of “The Redemptive Self” Book ReviewsCulture

American Christians: A Review of “The Redemptive Self”

Title: The Redemptive Self: Stories Americans Live ByAuthor: Dan P. McAdamsPublisher: Oxford University PressPublish Date: February 4, 2013Pages: 400 pages (Paperback)ISBN: 978-019996975 For the past few years, I have found myself wandering into the world of psychology, curious as to what the significant developments in that field might offer for contextualizing…
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July 27, 2026
Empathy is Unreasonable: A Review of Against Empathy Book ReviewsCulture

Empathy is Unreasonable: A Review of Against Empathy

Title: Against Empathy: The Case for Rational CompassionAuthor: Paul BloomPublisher: HarperCollinsPublishing Date: December 6, 2016Pages: 304 (Hardcover)ISBN: 978-0062339331 In these fractured and partisan days, we could fix the world if we all had a bit more empathy, right? Some even say that orienting our entire worldview around empathy is necessary for thriving in…
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July 27, 2026
Defending the Marital Sphere: A Review of Church, State, and Family Book ReviewsLaw

Defending the Marital Sphere: A Review of Church, State, and Family

Title: Church, State, and Family: Reconciling Traditional Teachings and Modern LibertiesAuthor: John Witte, Jr.Publisher: Cambridge University PressPublishing Date: May 23, 2019Pages: 454 (Hardcover)ISBN: 978-1107184756 “Too often, of late, Christians and other religious believers have marched to the culture wars without ammunition—substituting nostalgia for engagement, acerbity for prophecy, platitudes for principled argument,…
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July 27, 2026
The Inscrutable Other: A Review of Talking to Strangers Book ReviewsCulture

The Inscrutable Other: A Review of Talking to Strangers

Title: Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t KnowAuthors: Malcolm GladwellPublisher: Little, Brown & CompanyPublishing Date: September 10, 2019Pages: 400 (Hardcover)ISBN: 978-0316478526 It feels like American society is at a crisis point. Whether it’s social polarization or concerns over discrimination, a root…
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July 27, 2026
Social Media is Politics by Other Means: A Review of LikeWar Book ReviewsCulture

Social Media is Politics by Other Means: A Review of LikeWar

Title: LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social MediaAuthors: P. W. Singer & Emerson T. BrookingPublisher: Mariner BooksPublishing Date: October 8, 2019Pages: 432 (Paperback)ISBN: 978-0358108474 The world is always changing, but this change came into sharp focus for P.W. Singer and Emerson Brooking as they watched what unfolded in Mosul, Iraq in the…
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July 27, 2026
Gratitude as Worldview: A Review of Eucharistic Reciprocity Book ReviewsTheology

Gratitude as Worldview: A Review of Eucharistic Reciprocity

Title: Eucharistic Reciprocity: A Practical Theological Inquiry into the Virtue of GratitudeAuthor: A. William DeJongPublisher: Pickwick PublicationsPublishing Date: November 11, 2019Pages: 276 (Paperback)ISBN: 978-1532672538 “North America is home to widespread greed peacefully co-existing with equally widespread gratitude. Though few are inclined to admit greed, many are public about their gratitude. How…
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July 27, 2026
Maintaining Allegiance: A Review of Compassion & Conviction Articles & EssaysPolitics

Maintaining Allegiance: A Review of Compassion & Conviction

Title: Compassion & Conviction: The AND Campaign’s Guide to Faithful Civic Engagement Author: Justin Giboney, Michael Wear, Chris ButlerPublisher: IVP AcademicPublishing Date: July 21, 2020Pages: 160 (Hardcover)ISBN: 978-0830848102 Christians are under pressure today in America, and this pressure came to a particular climax this November with the opportunity to vote in…
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July 27, 2026
Recovering a Grammar for the Soul: A Review of The Logic of the Body Book ReviewsTheology

Recovering a Grammar for the Soul: A Review of The Logic of the Body

Title: The Logic of the Body: Retrieving Theological Psychology Author: Matthew A. LaPinePublisher: Lexham PressPublishing Date: November 4, 2020Pages: 440 (Paperback)ISBN:978-1683594253 If you’ve ever tried to kick an addiction, go on a diet, or engage in any other significant rewriting of who you are, my guess is that you can…
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July 27, 2026