Correcting the Historical Record on Slavery
The Worst of Indignities: The Catholic Church on Slavery By Paul Kengor. Emmaus Road Publishing, 2023. Hardcover, 304 pages, $29.95. Reviewed by David Weinberger. When explaining why he was Catholic, G.K. Chesterton observed that there are thousands of reasons all...
Crafting a New Evangelical Imagination
The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis By Karen Swallow Prior. Brazos Press, 2023. Hardcover, 304 pages, $26.99. Reviewed by James E. Hartley. “All great systems, ethical or political, attain their ascendancy over...
Rising with the Saints
The Leaven of the Saints: Bringing Christ into a Fallen World By Dawn Marie Beutner. Ignatius Press, 2023. Paperback, 316 pages, $19.95. Reviewed by Thomas Griffin. Saints change the world because their own lives have become an offering to God. Their self-offering...
An Old Man, Wrapped in a Robe
What is Christianity? The Last Writings By Pope Benedict XVI. Ignatius Press, 2023. Hardcover, 230 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by Ryan Patrick Budd. At the lowest point in his life, when everything was falling in ruin, King Saul of Israel knew whom he really wanted to...
"How Should We Then Die?: A Christian Response to Physician-Assisted Death" by @ecgoligher, MD.
Reviewed by @pricerobertg. @LexhamPress
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