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Cynicism and Criminal Justice
Review of Aaron Griffith, God’s Law and Order: The Politics of Punishment in Evangelical America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020. I’ve always approached the concept of criminal justice with a heap of cynicism. It’s hard to know how to think about these things. Law and order seems to be an unobjectionable concept, until you begin… Continue reading
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Art and Shalom
Review of Makoto Fujimura, Art and Faith (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020). Makoto Fujimura, an American artist of Japanese heritage and training, has put together a remarkable little book on the relationship of art—broadly construed—to faith. One would have to think so given the blurbs he received: who else can lay claim to endorsements… Continue reading
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All Our Crises are Theological
Review of Mark Noll, The Civil War as a Theological Crisis. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. Mark Noll’s Civil War as Theological Crisis isn’t a new book. It’s a book that I first heard of as an undergrad—and that remained on my “to read” list through graduate school, never graduating to the “have read”… Continue reading
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John Adams had a Real Job
Review of: R.B. Bernstein, The Education of John Adams New York: Oxford, 2020. John Adams will never be the most popular of the Founding Fathers. He did not have the commanding grace of Washington, the elegant pen of Jefferson, or Franklin’s way with a coonskin cap. Paul Giamatti is a compelling actor, but there is… Continue reading
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Every Table is the Lord’s
Book Review: Wirzba, Norman. Food and Faith: A Theology of Eating. 2nd Edition. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Humans are fundamentally eaters. And yet today, we as a culture give less thought to how we eat than perhaps at any time before in human history. We fail to answer the fundamental question of why… Continue reading
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Just Write
Review of Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative. New York: Workman Press, 2012. This blog has been years in the coming, and whether it survives a fortnight is a question yet to be resolved. But if it does manage to survive longer than Wimbledon outside pandemictide, its… Continue reading
