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** Paschal Fearlessness
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Review by Daniel W. McClain
These 25 reflections for Eastertide pull the reader through a familiar scriptural image to a less familiar, or perhaps less obvious, realization and invitation. By taking us into the minds of characters from the mother of Jesus to the wife of Pontius Pilate, they remind us that the story of Christ is embedded in real humanity, where the motives and thinking of individuals are rarely solitary. Read the review ([link removed]) .
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** ‘What Are We Looking at Here?’
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Review by Christine Havens
In two distinct yet intertwined novels, Cormac McCarthy provides a very human worldview of what apocalyptic and eschatological living might feel like. There isn’t truly explicitly graphic violence in either book -- and yet violence abounds, implicit and anticipated. Read the review ([link removed]) .
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** Learning from Martin Luther King’s Mentor
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Review by Marcia Hotchkiss
Besides MLK, Howard Thurman mentored and inspired Jesse Jackson, Bayard Rustin, Marian Wright Edelman, Vernon Jordan, and many others. As one of the most important and yet less-known leaders of the 20th-century American church, he provided the spiritual and philosophical underpinnings for the work that calls people to action. Read the review ([link removed]) .
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** The Old Testament’s (Post-Critical) God
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Review by Brandon M. Thompson
A multidisciplinary approach is essential in Old Testament studies, and the author examines three dimensions of the text: the historical, the literary, and the theological/kerygmatic, while articulating an openness the the reality of divine action. Read the review. ([link removed])
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** Better Democracy Through Disagreement?
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Review by D. Stephen Long
Based on the title, one might presume religions aid democracy through their unifying or reconciling character. But the author makes the opposite claim. Religions produce diversity and disagreement, and require democratic means for their accommodation. Read the review ([link removed]) .
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