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I’ve seen Christian artists take many different stances on church, most of which I think are unhelpful: hostility, indifference, subservience and provocation. A lot of talk among Christian artists seems like self-indulgent whining dressed up as critique. Why doesn’t church…Read More→
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Thomas Lynch, known to the people of Milford, Michigan, as the senior undertaker at Lynch and Sons, and to the rest of us as a poet and essayist, tries his hand at fiction in his new book, Apparition and Late…Read More→
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Marilynne Robinson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Gilead, was the book that launched a thousand Christian book clubs. Her new book, Absence of Mind, from Yale University’s Terry Lectures, might not resonate with the Gilead audience, but it reveals the deep intellect…Read More→
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Marilynne Robinson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Gilead, was the book that launched a thousand Christian book clubs. Her new book, Absence of Mind, from Yale University’s Terry Lectures, might not resonate with the Gilead audience, but it reveals the deep intellect…Read More→
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I won’t claim to be an objective reviewer of Wendell Berry. I get a bit giddy every time he publishes a new book, and I’m always conscious that this could be his last. Berry has spent his life farming the…Read More→
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I won’t claim to be an objective reviewer of Wendell Berry. I get a bit giddy every time he publishes a new book, and I’m always conscious that this could be his last. Berry has spent his life farming the…Read More→
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For those of you who read these reviews (the editor, mom, dad) it might be helpful for me to admit my bias toward mainstream, non-evangelical books. I’m always interested in knowing what people outside the evangelical subculture think. What issues…Read More→
By Kurt Armstrong and ChristianWeek on
For those of you who read these reviews (the editor, mom, dad) it might be helpful for me to admit my bias toward mainstream, non-evangelical books. I’m always interested in knowing what people outside the evangelical subculture think. What issues…Read More→
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I’m sitting in my big soft chair, my computer screen glowing, a bowl of peanuts close at hand. My wife and kids are downstairs, and I’m struggling to write a review of Kent Annan’s moving book, Following Jesus Through the…Read More→
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Making sense of history is sometimes nearly as difficult as making sense of the present, never mind making guesses about what’s coming next. But theologian and religious trend-watcher Harvey Cox tries to do all three in his new book, The…Read More→