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Three very different topics are considered in this edition of the journal: the history of the peace position of the Brethren in Christ Church, as documented in official statements of faith; missions; and singleness and the church. The lead article by Randall Basinger, retired professor of philosophy and provost at...read more
Fall was in the air that October day of 1897. Mary Davidson Yoder hurried across Wooster, Ohio’s busy downtown square to the County Courthouse. Her younger sister Frances Davidson walked quickly beside her. Their mission was to acquire a passport for Frances, who planned to leave the United States for...read more
BENNO VAN DEN TOREN and KANG-SAN TAN. Humble Confidence: A Model for Interfaith Apologetics. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2022. Pp. 296. $32 (US) In his first letter, Peter encourages his readers to “Always be ready to make your defense to anyone who demands from you an accounting for the...read more
JASON PORTERFIELD. Fight Like Jesus: How Jesus Waged Peace Throughout Holy Week. Harrisonburg, VA: Herald Press, 2022. Pg. 205. $17.99 (U.S) Jason Porterfield’s Fight Like Jesus: How Jesus Waged Peace Throughout Holy Week takes a day-by-day dive into the most contentious week of Jesus’s life and the ways that peace...read more
MARK NOLL, C.S. Lewis in America: Readings and Reception, 1935-1947. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2023. Pp 176. $20 (US) I first read C. S. Lewis’s books in the early 1960s. I found the beginning of his space trilogy, Out of the Silent Planet, on a bookshelf in our home,...read more
DENNIS R. EDWARDS. Humility Illuminated: The Biblical Path Back to Christian Character. InterVarsity Press, 2023. pp. 192. $22.00 (U.S.) “The Church in the United States—and perhaps in other places throughout the world—needs to recover, respect, and reenact biblical humility” (1). With this first sentence of the introduction, Edwards sets the...read more