Turning around
On history, human nature, and The Matrix.
Reviews
A superior understanding of Canada
On putting Stephen Harper in context.
A sudden disintegration
A review of “The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America” (2017), by Frances Fitzgerald.
Seeing “First Reformed”
A review of “First Reformed,” directed by Paul Schrader.
Unaffected by history?
A review of “Why Study the Past?” by Rowan Williams.
The history that lies between
A review of “The Moral Vision of the New Testament” by Richard Hays.
Seeing “Never Look Away”
A review of the movie “Never Look Away.”
A grand interlocking network?
A review of “The Educated Imagination” by Northrop Frye.
Consensus politics in Canada
A review of “Common Ground” by Justin Trudeau.
Seeing “Fargo Season Two”
A review of “Fargo,” Season Two.
Seeing the 2017 National Photographic Portrait Prize of Australia
An essay on the 2019 National Photographic Portrait Prize exhibit held in Canberra, Australia.
Seeing “The Case for Christ”
A review of the movie “The Case for Christ.”
Neoliberal Jesus
A review of “Jesus in an Age of Neoliberalism” by James Crossley.
Atheism’s origins
A review of “Atheists: The Origin of the Species” by Nick Spencer.
The evangelical imagination
A review of “Apostles of Reason” by Molly Worthen.
Augustine’s mantle
A review of “Confessing History” edited by John Fea et al.
Our fractured age
A short essay on “A Secular Age.”
Putting death in its place
A review of “God, Medicine, and Suffering” by Stanley Hauerwas.
Framing Christian apologetics
A review of two new books on Christian apologetics.
Overlapping consensus
A review of a new book on secularism.
Reckoning with the Bible
A review of “The Bible Made Impossible” by Christian Smith.
Atheism’s modern history
A review of “A Short History of Atheism” by Gavin Hyman.
An engaged faith
A review of “A Public Faith” by Miroslav Volf.
Rejecting triumphalism
A review of “Religion in Human Evolution” by Robert Bellah
Taking stock
A review of “Dilemmas and Connections” by Charles Taylor.
Evangelical appropriation
A review of “Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind” by Mark Noll
Historicizing Christian nationalism
A review of “Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?” by John Fea.
Ears to hear
A review of “Anatheism” by Richard Kearney
Arguing against the New Atheists
A review of five books defending Christianity against the New Atheists.