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Wendy J. Deichmann and Scott T. Kisker, ed., Heirs of Pietism in World Christianity: The 19th to the 21stCenturies. Wilmore, KY: First Fruits Press, 2024. Pp. 180. In Suffering, New Testament scholar Craig Keener takes up the challenging matter of Christians and churches who suffer for the sake of Christ....read more
ELIZA GRISWOLD. Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024. Pp. 332. $30.00 (U.S.) When a book is published by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, excerpted in The New Yorker, blurbed by Christian luminaries such as Kristin Kobes...read more
ROBERT DOUGLASS and WYNDY CORBIN REUSCHLING, eds., Celebrations and Convictions: Honoring the Life & Legacy of Dr. Luke L. Keefer, Jr. Mechanicsburg, PA: Brethren in Christ Historical Society, 2015. Pp. 269. $??. “Chances are that if you are reading this book you already know something about Luke Keefer,” writes J....read more
The world of the first Jesus followers was a world of “us and them.” The Scriptures present this first of all as the language of the people of God, Israelites and eventually Jews, who knew the rest as the “nations,” or “Gentiles.” Of course, Greeks and Romans also saw the...read more