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Finding Hope In A Bleak Midwinter, Bruce Kuiper

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"... only God could provide life in the middle of winter. But he does it in such a gentle, quiet way... "

Posting about ­­­­­­­­the essence of the Christmas season from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/finding-hope-in-a-bleak-midwinter/

'Digital' Fruits Of The Spirit?: A Review Of Analog Christian, Mike Janssen

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"Social media platforms are built to encourage addictive use, stimulating the same neurological connections as slot machines and drug addicts to encourage us to return to the well for further despair."

Posting about the book Analog Christian from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/digital-fruits-of-the-spirit-a-review-of-analog-christian/

Who Loved The Neighbor? A Review Of Faithful Antiracism, Abby De Groot

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"The authors’ purpose is... to equip Christians in all spheres of life to understand and, more essentially, disrupt racial injustice."

Posting about the book Faithful Antiracism from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/who-loved-the-neighbor-a-review-of-faithful-antiracism/

The Evangelical Bubble Needs A Doorway, Justin Bailey

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Enfolding Immigrants: A Review Of Beyond Welcome, Chris L. Goedhart

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"We cannot fail to see that our response to the least of these is our response to Christ himself."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­the book Beyond Welcomefrom In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/enfolding-immigrants-a-review-of-beyond-welcome/

Wild Hope: Prayers And Poems (Book Review), Rose Postma

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Reviewed Title: Wild Hope: Prayers and Poems by John Terpstra. Toronto, Ontario: The St. Thomas Poetry Series, 2020. 95 pp. ISBN: 9781928095040.

What I Hope For My Daughter: Eyes To See, Abby De Groot

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"I have continued to witness acts of love and care for Reese in the three and half years following her diagnosis."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­discovering empathy and support at school from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/what-i-hope-for-my-daughter-eyes-to-see/

Of Trees And Rings: A Reflection On The Rings Of Power, Thomas J. Clark

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"Living in a world as complex as this present age presents a series of choices of mixed moral clarity."

Posting about the Amazon series The Rings of Power from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/of-trees-and-rings-a-reflection-on-the-rings-of-power/

The Revealing Art Of Film: A Review Of Seeing Is Believing, Joshua Matthews

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"Goodwin believes that great films are great art, and as such, are able to move viewers affectively and even change their lives."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­the book Seeing is Believing from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/the-revealing-art-of-film-a-review-of-seeing-is-believing/

Stewarding Nfts: Yes, No, Maybe So?, Jesse L. Veenstra

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"God’s kingdom extends to all corners of the universe, including the digital realm."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­the responsible use of non-fungible tokens from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/stewarding-nfts-yes-no-maybe-so/

Growing Our Own: Addressing The Teacher Shortage, Timothy Van Soelen

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Three Tributaries, Exploring The Reformed, Baptist, And Catholic Branches: A Review Of The Church's Book, David Westfall

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"If our conversations about the Bible, its meaning, and its authority seem always to prove fruitless, perhaps this is a better place to start."

Posting about the book The Church's Book from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/three-tributaries-exploring-the-reformed-baptist-and-catholic-branches-a-review-of-the-churchs-book/

How Then Shall We Work: Should Christian Engineers Pursue Productivity?, Kayt Frisch, Michael Foster, Justin R. Vander Werff

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Technology critics like Neal Postman (Amusing Ourselves to Death) and Nicholas Carr (The Shallows) have long held forth that our technology shapes us. In recent years, philosophers (including some that have presented at past Christian Engineering Conferences) have explored the value-ladenness of engineering design and how the biases in our technology affect us on a daily basis. A “hidden in plain sight” technology that we interact with everyday is our approach to getting things done, or our “productivity system.” While everyone has a productivity system, that is, a way of organizing, prioritizing, and executing tasks, some have thought more explicitly …

Introduction To Special Issue “Language Translation In Localizing Religious Musical Practice”, John Macinnis

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The inspiration and starting place for this Special Issue was the book Making Congregational Music Local in Christian Communities Worldwide (Routledge 2018), edited by Monique Ingalls, Muriel Swijghuisen Reigersberg, and Zoe Sherinian.

What It Means To Be Human: A Review Of You're Only Human, Gayle E. Doornbos, Hannah Landman

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"We are embodied creatures created by God to be limited by time and space and with our own unique set of gifts and abilities."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­the book You're Only Human from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/what-it-means-to-be-human-a-review-of-youre-only-human/

Doubt Be Not Proud, Justin Bailey

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Thriving Against The Technological Tide (Part Ii): A Review Conversation Of The Life We're Looking For, Justin Bailey, Matthew Beimers

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"We need to ask what it would look like to design more instruments and less devices. And we need to build our lives more around instruments and less around devices."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­the book The Life We're Looking For from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/thriving-against-the-technological-tide-part-2-a-review-conversation-of-the-life-were-looking-for/

Thriving Against The Technological Tide (Part I): A Review Conversation Of The Life We're Looking For, Justin Bailey, Matthew Beimers

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"Crouch’s book reminds us that the story of the competing cultural narratives demands one thing from us: our love."

Posting about the book The Life We're Looking For from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/thriving-against-the-technological-tide-part-1-a-review-conversation-of-the-life-were-looking-for/

Small Wonders: A Museum Of Missouri River Stories (Book Review), Howard Schaap

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Reviewed Title: Small Wonders: A Museum of Missouri River Stories by James Calvin Schaap. [Iowa] : Floyd River Press, 2022. 237 pp, ISBN: 9798425172358.

Speaking Is About The Hearer: A Review Of Speaking By The Numbers, David J. Mulder

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"Are there ways to help make public speaking less stressful for the speaker and more impactful for the listener?"

Posting about ­­­­­­­­the book Speaking by the Numbers from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/speaking-is-about-the-hearer-a-review-of-speaking-by-the-numbers/

Is Christian Education "Worth It"?, Sheila Mulder

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"God desires that His people work to restore and form culture."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­the value of Christian education from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/is-christian-education-worth-it/

The Church And Disability Justice: A Review Of My Body Is Not A Prayer Request, Kathleen Van Tol

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"You can choose to live in a way that reflects the belief that every person bears the image of God, regardless of ability or achievement."

Posting about the book My Body is Not a Prayer Request from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/the-church-and-disability-justice-a-review-of-my-body-is-not-a-prayer-request/

Reading Igor Stravinsky's Poetics Of Music In Christian Higher Education, John Macinnis, Mark Peters

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This article presents the composer Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971) as an historical educator in the context of the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures on Poetry at Harvard University (1939–1940), published as The Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons. As music professors at North American institutions of Christian Higher Education, the authors each read Stravinsky’s Poetics with students in music classes. We describe here our different pedagogical methods and how we employ Stravinsky’s Poetics to form students with Christian approaches to culture-making.

Engineering Education In Developing Nations: Progress On The School Of Engineering At Northrise University In Ndola, Zambia, Jeff Gladstone, Gitogo Churu, John Tixier, Nolan Van Gaalen

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The engineering and technology capabilities of developed nations continues to advance and to be a major driver of the economies of those nations. Developing nations recognize this reality, and they accordingly recognize the importance of nurturing the growth of their own countries’ STEM capabilities. Engineering education in developing nations is thus a critical need; but it is work that, for a variety of reasons, tends to be under-resourced by developing nations themselves as well as by potential participants from developed nations. As followers of Jesus, we sometimes find our hearts stirred on behalf of our brothers and sisters in Christ …

Teacher Flexibility And The New Normal, Sheila Mulder

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"The pandemic revealed the strong need for caring for the whole person and implementing informed teaching practices and principles."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­adapting to change in education from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/teacher-flexibility-and-the-new-normal/

The Now And The Not Yet: A Review Of The Art Of New Creation, Justin Bailey

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"What does it mean to create art that reflects the reality of new creation, in a way that is attentive to the gritty particularities of our present moment?"

Posting about the book The Art of New Creation from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/the-now-and-the-not-yet-a-review-of-the-art-of-new-creation/

A Christian Response To Pride Month: Pride And Sabbath, Donald Roth

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"We... confess that the world is broken in deep ways, and we don’t have to shy from the reality of the ways that people suffer and are marginalized in this world."

Posting about Sabbath as a Christian response to Pride Month from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/a-christian-response-to-pride-month-pride-and-sabbath/

A Christian Response To Pride Month: Is Pride Revolution Or Carnival?, Donald Roth

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"Many aspects of the status quo seem rather persistent in the face of otherwise revolutionary pressures, a fact bemoaned by many who are advocating for change."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­processing the celebrations and symbols of Pride Month from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/a-christian-response-to-pride-month-is-pride-revolution-or-carnival/

A Grim Reality, A Good Hope: A Review Of Fortune, Howard Schaap

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"Harper’s family tree takes us into the very real and specific effects that racist laws have on individuals."

Posting about ­­­­­­­the book Fortune from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/a-grim-reality-a-good-hope-a-review-of-fortune/

My Kids Made Me Do It: My Journey Into Global Missions, Dale Zevenbergen

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" I... saw a thread throughout the entirety of scripture of God‘s heart for the nations and for God’s glory to be made known in the lives of all people."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­obeying God's call to spread the gospel from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/my-kids-made-me-do-it-my-journey-into-global-missions/