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The Learning Community (aka Sunday school class) I attend at the Grantham Church has been engaging with a series called “For the Love of God and Country: Exploring a Brethren in Christ Response to Christian Nationalism.” The teacher has been using a variety of experts on the topic of Christian...read more
Called into ministry Just a short distance after turning onto Little Piney Creek Road the two sisters gazed eagerly out of the car window. Were they on the right road? Would the church building still be standing? The two daughters of Isaac and Maybelle Kanode—Pauline (Kanode Allison Peifer) and Beth...read more
There’s been a lot of talk about White Christian nationalism since 2016. And for good reason. The rise of Trumpism brought fusions of Christian supremacy and White grievances out of the shadows and into the mainstream. Google searches for the term Christian nationalism spiked after the January 6, 2021 insurrection....read more
The flurry of interest in White Christian nationalism by historians, sociologists, and scholars of religion in the past few years has produced crucial insights into its innerworkings. This work offers a goldmine of insight and analysis for Christians against Christian nationalism as we develop a pastoral approach to resisting Christian...read more
David C. CRAMER and MYLES WERNTZ. A Field Guide to Christian Nonviolence: Key Thinkers, Activists, and Movements for the Gospel of Peace. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2022. Pp. 178. $18.58 (U.S.) The release of A Field Guide to Christian Nonviolence in the summer of 2022 seemed a happy coincidence as we...read more
DAVID C. CRAMER and MYLES WERNTZ. A Field Guide to Christian Nonviolence: Key Thinkers, Activists, and Movements for the Gospel of Peace. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2022. Pp. 178. $18.58 (U.S.) In 2001, I began attending a Brethren in Christ church (now Be In Christ in Canada), having spent...read more
JESSICA HOOTEN WILSON. The Scandal of Holiness: Renewing Your Imagination in the Company of Literary Saints. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2022. Pp. 226. $24.99 (U.S.) In The Scandal of Holiness, Jessica Hooten Wilson invites us to join in a holy rebellion of reading great books. Reading is, as we...read more
VERONICE MILES. Embodied Hope: A Homiletical Theology Reflection. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2021. Pp. 225. $32.00 (U.S.) Veronice Miles’ recently published Embodied Hope delivers precisely what its subtitle claims—A Homiletical Theology Reflection. Neither a text on sermon methodology nor a comprehensive theology of the preaching task, this deep reflection instead...read more