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Kim Pecinovsky and Hannah Rose Martin, Sparking Peace. Herald Press, 2025. 40 pp. $9 US. Sparking Peace is a thought-provoking book perfect for children and families as they begin to navigate challenging and open conversations around the topic of gun violence. The book opens with a child doing what kids...read more
Janet Kellogg Ray, The God of Monkey Science: People of Faith in a Modern Scientific World. Eerdmans, 2023. Pp. 248. Since the dawn of the fundamentalist-modernist controversy more than a century ago, a tendency has existed within some portions of American Protestantism to view faith commitment and scientific consensus as...read more
Kate Boyd, An Untidy Faith: Journeying Back to the Joy of Following Jesus. Herald Press, 2023. I agreed to this review an embarrassingly long time ago, which fills me with regret. I picked this book up and set it down repeatedly for well over a year because I simply couldn’t...read more
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
MARK JANTZEN and JOHN D. THIESSEN, eds. European Mennonites and the Holocaust. University of Toronto Press, 2021. $US 39.70 (paperback). I have been wanting to read about what went wrong with so many Christians in Nazi Germany. European Mennonites and the Holocaust, published in association with the United States Holocaust...read more
DARIUS L. SALTER. The Demise of the American Holiness Movement. Wilmore, KY: First Fruits Press, 2020. Pp. 500. “May I know grace to embrace my own finite smallness in the arms of God’s infinite greatness” (Pete Greig). In 2009, I found myself serving in a booming youth ministry at a...read more
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. The book Heirs of Pietism is the result of two new and welcomed endeavors. The first of these is a new conference on...read more
WILLIAM T. CAVANAUGH. The Uses of Idolatry. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 504. U. S. $29.99 (paperback) We live in a secular age, a disenchanted world marked by a retreat of the spiritual and the rise of the rational. Luminaries from Max Weber to Charles Taylor have crafted...read more
MICHAEL HUERTER. The Hybrid Congregation: A Practical Theology of Worship for an Online Era. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2025. Pp. 171. $25.99 US. The Hybrid Congregation accurately describes how pastors and congregations adjusted in fits and starts to the Covid-19 pandemic. Through interviewing Heidi Campbell, professor of digital media...read more
NATALIE FRISK. A Light to Share; Stories of Spreading Love and Changing the World. Harrisonburg, VA: Herald Press. 2025. Pp.28. $17.99 US. A Light to Share is a heartwarming and inspiring book on how the light of Christ impacts children and youth for the greater good. As a children’s book,...read more
HELEN PAYNTER, Blessed Are the Peacemakers: A Biblical Theology of Human Violence. Biblical Theology for Life Series. Grand Rapids, MI, Zondervan Academic, 2023. Pp. 348. $38.99 US. One year when I was in high school, my dad brought a cupcake with a single candle to school for my birthday. When...read more
DAN HEAVENOR. Friendship with Jesus: An Imaginative Prayer Journey. Wipf and Stock, 2024. $US 21. It’s always a fascinating exercise to reflect on the first moments of an intimate friendship, the first interactions you may have had or the first time you met. My friendship with Heather began in the...read more
RICHARD LOUGHEED, Menno’s Descendants in Quebec: The Mission Activity of Four Anabaptist Groups 1956–2021, Pandora, Kitchener, Ontario, 2021. 255 pp. US $28. RICHARD LOUGHEED, Menno au Québec: Une histoire de la mission francophone de quatre groupes anaba1ptistes 1956–2021, Société d’histoire du protestantisme franco-québécois, Montreal, Quebec, 2022. 253 pp. Menno’s Descendants in Quebec provides Anglophone...read more
JIM DAVIS and MICHAEL GRAHAM with Ryan P. Burge. The Great Dechurching: Who’s Leaving, Why Are They Going, and What Will It Take to Bring Them Back? Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Reflective, 2023. Pp. 242. $29.99 (US) Since the COVID-19 outbreak, people connected to American Christian congregations are keenly aware...read more
STUART MURRAY. The New Anabaptists: Practices for Emerging Communities. Harrisonburg, VA: Herald Press, 2024. Pp. 252. $18.99 (US). From the author of The Naked Anabaptist, this sequel work is a valuable addition to Murray’s contributions to post-Christendom studies and to the task of uncovering what Anabaptism means in our time....read more