Christians in the Brave New World

Christians in the Brave New World

Life in the Negative World: Confronting Challenges in an Anti-Christian Culture  By Aaron M. Renn. Zondervan, 2024. Hardcover, 272 pages, $26.99. Reviewed by Jason Jewell. Since his viral article “The Three Worlds of Evangelicalism” was published in the February 2022...
Still Believing and Singing

Still Believing and Singing

I Still Believe: A Memoir By Jeremy Camp and David Thomas. Thomas Nelson, 2020. Paperback, 256 pages, $18.99. Reviewed by Isaiah Flair. Towards the end of the film I Still Believe, Jeremy Camp is distraught over the death of his wife, Melissa, whom he had hoped would...
Higher Ed and the Crisis of Civic Despair

Higher Ed and the Crisis of Civic Despair

Renewing America’s Civic Compact  Edited by Carol McNamara and Trevor Shelley. Lexington Books, 2023. Hardcover, 258 pages, $100. Reviewed by Thomas Kelly. For many 2024 carries with it a very real sense of civic despair. There is of course the “dread” that many feel...
Citizenship Matters

Citizenship Matters

Citizenship and Civic Leadership in America  Edited by Carol McNamara and Trevor Shelley. Lexington Books, 2022. Paperback, 326 pages, $42.99. Reviewed by Hans Zeiger. Carol McNamara and Trevor Shelley have edited a wonderful collection of essays about topics related...
Swimming in the Secular Fishbowl 

Swimming in the Secular Fishbowl 

Practicing Christians, Practical Atheists: How Cultural Liturgies and Everyday Social Practices Shape the Christian Life By Phil Davignon. Cascade Books, 2023. Paperback, 158 pages, $22. Reviewed by David G. Bonagura, Jr.  What are the biggest factors driving...
JP O’Malley Interviews Author Joseph Berger

JP O’Malley Interviews Author Joseph Berger

Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence (Jewish Lives) By Joseph Berger. Yale University Press, 2023. Hardcover, 360 pages, $26. Joseph Berger published Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence early last year. The University Bookman contributor JP O’Malley caught up with...
Portrait of an Artist

Portrait of an Artist

Gwen John: Art and Life in London and Paris By Alicia Foster. Thames & Hudson, 2023. Hardcover, 272 pages, $39.95. Reviewed by Sean McGlynn. The work of the Welsh artist Gwen John (1876-1939) has recently re-emerged from relative obscurity. This is due to two fine...
Against the New Deal

Against the New Deal

New Deal Rebels: An Anthology of Critics of the New Deal Edited by Amity Shlaes. American Institute for Economic Research, 2023. Paperback, 376 pages, $18. Reviewed by Chuck Chalberg. From the vantage point of roughly seven decades of depression-less prosperity, Amity...