Urban Afterlives – by Dana Robinson
Dana Robinson on Hendrik W. Dey’s Afterlife of the Roman City The fall of Rome was an urban affair. Alaric’s sack of the
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Religion
Feeling Sorry the Wrong Way – by Anthony Bash
Anthony Bash on David Lambert’s How Repentance Became Biblical In some ways, regret, repentance, and remorse are popular emotions in the modern world.
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Feeding that Infinite Abyss Within – By John David Penniman
John David Penniman on Alexandra Kleeman’s You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine “Am I really all the things that are outside
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Renewing the Heart of Systematic Theology – By Brad East
Brad East on Katherine Sonderegger’s Systematic Theology, vol. 1 Academics love stories of decline, especially about themselves. But academic theologians may love them
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Augustine on Trial – Ron Haflidson
Ron Haflidson on Paul Rigby’s Theology of Augustine’s Confessions A friend of mine refers to her favorite thinkers of the departed white male
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Gothic on Trial – By James Alexander Cameron
James Alexander Cameron on Stephen Murray’s Plotting Gothic and Jonathan Foyle’s Lincoln Cathedral “Gothic.” Originally coined as a term of exclusion — things
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Grace and Transformation – By Susan Eastman
Susan Eastman on John Barclay’s Paul and the Gift In a remarkable movie called “The Fisher King” (1991), Robin Williams plays a homeless
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Uyghur Histories – By James A. Millward
James Millward on Rian Thum’s The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History Though Western media and political circles still tend to treat Islam in
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Reparations, Not Reconciliation – By John Senior
John Senior on Jennifer Harvey’s Dear White Christians Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of Between the World and Me, the wrenching and beautifully rendered epistolary
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The Good-Enough Death – By Marian Ronan
Marian Ronan on Ann Neumann’s The Good Death At first glance, a reader might take Ann Neumann’s The Good Death for a standard
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