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God and the Atlantic: America, Europe, and the Religious Divide

Carl Trueman Articles
Apr 22, 2013
A Truly Divisive Pond A Review of Thomas Albert Howard, God and the Atlantic: America, Europe, and the Religious Divide (Oxford University Press, 2013) PB, $29.95 One of the most striking differences between the USA, my adopted residence, and the UK, my homeland, is the connection between politics...

Communion with Christ and His People: The Spirituality of C.H. Spurgeon

Jeremy Walker
May 16, 2013
Peter J. Morden, Communion with Christ and his people: The Spirituality of C. H. Spurgeon, Centre for Baptist History and Heritage Studies (Regent's Park College, Oxford), 2010, 318pp., paperback, £25 Peter Morden, tutor in Church History and Spirituality at Spurgeon's College, has given us a...

Half-Devil, Half-Child - A Summary

Philip Mark
Jun 17, 2013
Editors' Note: This is a summary of the documentary, Half-Devil, Half-Child. You can preview the documentary and order it here . What is the great deception that has consistently threatened the missionary enterprise? It is the mistaken notion that we have something - anything - to offer other than...

God is Impassible and Impassioned

Nathan Sasser
Sep 16, 2013
Rob Lister, God is Impassible and Impassioned: Toward a Theology of Divine Emotion . Wheaton: Crossway, 2013, 333 pp. $22.99. The Westminster Confession of Faith affirms that God is "without body, parts, or passions" (2.1). Perhaps most evangelicals would agree immediately that God has no body,...

Reformed Ethics Could Save Your Life

Joel Heflin
Nov 4, 2019
Herman Bavinck’s Reformed Ethics Could Save Your Life Reformed Ethics: Created, Fallen, and Converted Humanity (Vol. 1), John Bolt, ed. et al. Baker Academic, 2019. HC, 608 pp. I was preparing a student paper on Bavinck for ETS when the economy collapsed in 2009. Bavinck’s Reformed Dogmatics proved...

Beyond Authority and Submission: A Review

Jonathan Master
Oct 9, 2019
Although I do not know Rachel Green Miller personally and I am not on social media, I have been able to follow some of the debate surrounding her writing for a number of years. In my work for ACE, I have published her articles in the past, and have defended her in various ways both publicly and...

Co-Laborers, Co-Heirs

Eowyn Stoddard
Jun 20, 2019
Review of Co-Laborers, Co-Heirs A Family Conversation Edited by Brittany Smith and Doug Serven White Blackbird Books, 2019 301 pp. Occasionally, a family calls a council at which members express critiques of family interactions, rules and priorities. In my family, the meeting often revolves around...

Sufficient Hope

Rachel Green Miller
Jun 10, 2019
If you could give a new mom the perfect gift, what would it be? Would it be full night's sleep? Maybe you'd give her a hot meal without interruption or maybe the confidence that she'll be a good mom. Those would be precious gifts to any mom. But what do moms need most? More than any of these things...

Reforming Apologetics

Ryan McGraw
May 18, 2019
J.V. Fesko, Reforming Apologetics: Retrieving the Classic Reformed Approach to Defending the Faith . Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2019. 250pp. Paperback. Christians often polarize one another over their approaches to apologetics. While different apologetic schools compete for dominance in...

Lost and Found

Louis Markos
May 9, 2019
Lost and Found: How Jesus Helped Us Discover our True Selves Edited by Collin Hansen The Gospel Coalition, 2019 160 pages, paper, $12.99 I have always been troubled by those long, weight-loss infomercials that one sees on late night television. I have nothing against hearing the struggles of real-...