Missing the Mercy


Review by Neil Dhingra
 

This erudite yet accessible book explores many different religious tradition's attempts to make a coherent account of the story of Noah, diving into Jewish, Christian, and Muslim interpretations of this deeply important story. 

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A Substantial Alternative to Retiring


Review by J. Peter Pham

"In this book, Biggar—a priest of the Church of England and ex officio as Regius Professor, canon of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford—delivers a damning tally of what he forthrightly labels the evils of the centuries-long British colonial enterprise meriting moral condemnation."

 

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Artist John La Forge's Complex Legacy


Article by Greta Gaffin

Gaffin explores the life's work of the prolific artist of stained glass windows. A champion of a wholly new and uniquely American style of ecclesiastical decoration, his legacy is worthy of review.

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Remaking the English Church


Review by Calvin Lane


The product of decades of careful research, this lengthy and highly detailed book argues that Laudianism was a "second reformation"— a true remaking of the English church. 

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Monks of Another Kind


Review by Greg Peters


In this wonderful book full of wisdom, Guiver offers an examination of the history and structure of monasticism, a reflection on the nature of Christian community and shared Christian practices, like prayer.

 

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A Word About Christian Hermeneutics


Article by Garwood Anderson

Christian readers of scripture, the Old and New Testaments, have to wrestle with tensions across the canon. How do we reconcile them?

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