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What Do Professors Do All Summer?, David J. Mulder, Mike Janssen, Kayt Frisch, Joshua E. Hollinger, Erin Olson

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"It’s a time to take a breath, re-energize, and re-center while also reconnecting with friends and family."

Posting about the summer rhythm of life for five professors 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-do-educators-do-all-summer/

We Need Faithful Farmers, Dale E. Vos

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"A faithful farmer who cares is performing worshipful work."

Posting about the calling of agriculture 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/we-need-faithful-farmers/

Cultural Contours Of A Christian Worldview: A Review Of Biblical Critical Theory, Donald Roth

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"Watkin is weaving together Biblical themes in the order that they develop, letting Scripture set the agenda for what will be considered, rather than some other approach."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­the book Biblical Critical Theory 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/cultural-contours-of-a-christian-worldview-a-review-of-biblical-critical-theory/

In Gratitude For Tim Keller (1950-2023), Justin Bailey

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"The primary purpose of preaching is to give people an encounter with the beauty of Jesus Christ."

Posting about the influence of Tim Keller 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/in-gratitude-for-tim-keller-1950-2023/

Irrigating Imaginations: The Centrality Of Beauty For Culture Care, Justin Bailey

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Unsung Holiday: Memorial Day And Christian Patriotism, Donald Roth

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"The holiday has had a complicated relationship with religion and contentious issues around our national identity."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­Memorial Day 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/unsung-holiday-memorial-day-and-christian-patriotism/

Ndas: How Should Christians Think About Non-Disclosure Agreements?, Donald Roth

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"The answer to forward-looking NDAs may be for Christians to write better ones, rather than abandoning them altogether."

Posting about the pros and cons of non-disclosure agreements 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/ndas-how-should-christians-think-about-non-disclosure-agreements/

From Worldvision To Worldview: A Review Of Personality And Worldview, Donald Roth

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"We should not underestimate the cumulative impact of generations of faithful communal commitment to a Christian worldview."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­the book Personality and Worldview 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/from-worldvision-to-worldview-a-review-of-personality-and-worldview/

Tribute To Gene Chase, Calvin Jongsma

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Gene’s academic work was always one of service to God, his students, and his colleagues, and his intellectual passion was to promote the development of Christian perspectives on various aspects of the field. His contributions to the ACMS have been much appreciated and, God willing, may still bear fruit into the future.

Incorporating Perspectival Elements In A Discrete Mathematics Course, Calvin Jongsma

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Discrete mathematics is a vast field that can be explored along many different paths. Opening with a unit on logic and proof and then taking up some additional core topics (induction, set theory, combinatorics, relations, Boolean algebra, graph theory) allows one to bring in a wealth of relevant material on history, philosophy, axiomatics, and abstraction in very natural ways. This talk looks at how my 2019 textbook on discrete mathematics, focused in this way, came to be, and it highlights the various perspectival elements the book includes.

Measuring Performance: The Economics Of Cleaning The Outside Of The Cup, Joshua Hollinger

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"Sometimes focusing too much on what we can measure distorts our beliefs and actions as we turn away from immeasurable things that matter."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­the economics of evaluating workers based on their performance 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/measuring-performance-the-economics-of-cleaning-the-outside-of-the-cup/

Unsung Holiday: Earth Day, Channon Visscher

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"What can we do to pass on the gift of good land to our children and their children?"

Posting about our response to Earth Day 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/unsung-holiday-earth-day/

The Cosmic Scope Of The Resurrection, Carl P. Fictorie

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"The Kingdom of Christ claims all things for Christ, not just humanity, not just some things, but all things."

Posting about Christ's authority 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-cosmic-scope-of-the-resurrection/

Growing In Global Perspectives: A Book Conversation Of Reading The Bible Around The World, Hannah Landman, Jaelyn Dragt, Eoghan Holdahl, Joya Schreurs, Susan Wang

Student Work

"... God uses the oppressed to represent Jesus, the Savior, in [the Good Neighbor] story."

Posting about the book Reading the Bible Around the World 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/growing-in-global-perspectives-a-book-conversation-of-reading-the-bible-around-the-world/

Growing In Global Perspectives: A Review Of Reading The Bible Around The World, Eoghan Holdahl, Jaelyn Dragt, Joya Schreurs, Susan Wang, Hannah Landman

Student Work

"Effects of colonization, refuge seeking, and persecution affect how communities interpret meaning in Scripture."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­the book Reading the Bible Around the World 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/growing-in-global-perspectives-a-review-of-reading-the-bible-around-the-world/

Shetek Moonrise, David Schelhaas

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Those Who Came Before Us: A Review Of Tell Her Story, Hannah Landman

Student Work

"Gupta’s book offers a refreshing look at women in ministry before, during, and after Jesus’s time on earth."

Posting about the book Tell Her Story 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/those-who-came-before-us-a-review-of-tell-her-story/

St. Patrick's Day, Sarah Moss

Staff Work

"In some cities, there are parades, festivals, and pub crawls; the city of Chicago even dyes the Chicago River green to commemorate the holiday."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­St. Patrick's Day traditions 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/st-patricks-day/

Voicing The Gospel Story: A Review Of The Man Born To Be King, Laurel A. Koerner

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"Twin concepts threaded throughout the plays and highlighted by Wehr are the kingdom of God as antithetical to earthly power, and the rule of love."

Posting about the book The Man Born to Be King 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/voicing-the-gospel-story-a-review-of-the-man-born-to-be-king/

Apocalyptic Films: Don't Look Up, A Case Study, Elyse Kuperus

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"This idea that in the end, while science can offer reasoning and understanding, only faith can offer comfort, is not lost on the characters, and should not be lost on the viewer either."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­the movie Don't Look Up 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/apocalyptic-films-dont-look-up-a-case-study/

Apocalyptic Films: Questions To Ask, Elyse Kuperus

Student Work

"When faced with our own world falling down around us, how will we act? Where will we turn?"

Posting about evaluating cinema 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/apocalyptic-films-questions-to-ask/

The Road: A Review Of Touch The Earth, Rose Postma

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"Touch the Earth draws heavily on the Black prophetic tradition, and the work bears witness to the injustices endured by marginalized people under the shadow of the American empire."

Posting about the book Touch the Earth 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-road-a-review-of-touch-the-earth/

Poetry To Break The Power Of The Empire: A Review Of Touch The Earth, Howard Schaap

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"To be clear, you should read this book because it’s good poetry. It’s musical and accessible, yet multivocal and idea-laden."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­the book Touch the Earth 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/poetry-to-break-the-power-of-empire-a-review-of-touch-the-earth/

Discerning Culture With Herman Bavinck, John B. Thompson

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"Bavinck does not intend that we simply adopt and casually integrate secular ideas into our Christian worldview. Instead, every idea must be brought into conformity with Christ."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­Christianity's influence in a hostile world 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/discerning-culture-with-herman-bavinck/

"Evangelizing Everything" Including Ourselves: A Review Of Chapters 8-9 Of Neo-Calvinism, Justin Bailey

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"We are overly tolerant for what happens within the walls of the Christian community, and overly suspicious of what happens outside."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­the book Neo-Calvinism 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/evangelizing-everything-including-ourselves-a-review-of-chapters-8-9-of-neo-calvinism/

Do Modern Christians Know God Differently?: A Review Of Chapters 4-5 Of Neo-Calvinism, Geoffrey Fulkerson

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"Brock and Sutanto synthesize wide bodies of content and an array of rather complex concepts and arguments into succinct summary chapters."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­the book Neo-Calvinism 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/do-modern-christians-know-god-differently-a-review-of-chapters-4-5-of-neo-calvinism/

Topics Christians Should Discuss: Mass Incarceration (Part 1), Joya Schreurs

Student Work

"Our actions both can and should be direct refusals of injustice and infused with compassion for all impacted parties."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­the prison crisis 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/topics-christians-should-discuss-mass-incarceration-part-1/

Embracing Ecology And Fantasy: A Review Of The Wonders Of Creation, Carl P. Fictorie

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"[Page] particularly promotes following the practice of 'slow' reading of nature, to stop and pay attention to the place and take in even the smallest details."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­the book The Wonders of 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/embracing-ecology-and-fantasy-a-review-of-the-wonders-of-creation/

Generationally Speaking: A Review Of Speaking Across Generations, Todd Zuidema

Staff Work

"Sermons need to be written and delivered with an awareness of the unique cultural characteristics and stage of life needs that reside within the hearts and minds of those who are listening."

Posting about the book Speaking Across Generations 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/generationally-speaking-a-review-of-speaking-across-generations/

Toward A Covenantal Christian Political Theology: A Review Of Politics After Christendom, Donald Roth

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"If all authority derives from God, it’s necessary to look to covenant to understand the contours of the authority delegated to humans."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­the book Politics after Christendom 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/toward-a-covenantal-christian-political-theology-a-review-of-politics-after-christendom/