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The Church's Response To Changing Culture: A Review Of "Future Faith", Robert Lancaster

Staff Work

"Congregations may die, and denominations may wither; but the Church of Jesus Christ will stand strong."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­the book Future Faith: Ten Challenges Reshaping Christianity in the 21st Century 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-churchs-response-to-changing-culture-a-review-of-future-faith/

Focus On Friendship: A Review Of "Why Can't We Be Friends?", Erin Olson

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

"Christians typically assume that the best way to avoid this temptation of engaging in sexual impurity is to avoid anything even resembling friendship with someone of the opposite sex. Byrd, however, argues that avoidance is not purity; it is simply avoidance."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­the book Why Can't We Be Friends? 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/focus-on-friendship-a-review-of-why-cant-we-be-friends/

American Christians: A Review Of "The Redemptive Self", Donald Roth

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

"This book holds up an important mirror to the culture that should be both a comforting affirmation and a deep challenge to American Christians."

Posting about the book The Redemptive Self 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/american-christians-a-review-of-the-redemptive-self/

The Ins And Outs Of Marriage: A Review Of "Mutual By Design", Erin Olson

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

"Mutual by Design: A Better Model of Christian Marriage provides a broad overview of marriage, starting with Biblical interpretations on the idea of marriage and gender roles and ending with discussions on subjects like headship, abuse, and divorce."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­the book Mutual by Design 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-ins-and-outs-of-marriage-a-review-of-mutual-by-design/

How Evangelical Fears Paved The Way For Donald Trump: A Review Of "Believe Me", Scott Culpepper

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

"Believe Me chronicles the story of evangelical political engagement in American history and seeks to come to grips with the stark paradox of evangelical support for a president whose character falls so short of their professed ideals."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­the book Believe Me 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/how-evangelical-fears-paved-the-way-for-donald-trump-a-review-of-believe-me/

Review Of: J. Denny Weaver, God Without Violence: Following A Nonviolent God In A Violent World, Brian Stiltner

Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies Faculty Publications

In God Without Violence, Mennonite theologian J. Denny Weaver ‘proposes new motifs for Christology and atonement’ and ‘highlights new versions of Christian practice’ based in ‘the nonviolence of God who is revealed in the life and work of Jesus’ (pp. 197–98). Weaver wrote this book to be a popular version of his previous books on atonement theology, accessible to church study groups and college classes.

Weaver, J.D. (2016). God without violence: Following a nonviolent God in a violent world. Eugene, OR: Cascade.

Bearing Witness In A Tldr World: A Review Of "Disruptive Witness", Justin Bailey

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

"In a world full of noise, TLDR is emblematic of our society’s short attention span."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­the book Disruptive Witness 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/bearing-witness-in-a-tldr-world-a-review-of-disruptive-witness/

The Past Speaks To The Present: A Review Of "Demanding Liberty", Scott Culpepper

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

"Brandon O’Brien’s Demanding Liberty reintroduces us to a forgotten hero who deserves to be remembered and emulated."

Posting about the book Demanding Liberty: An Untold Story of American Religious Freedom 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-past-speaks-to-the-present-a-review-of-demanding-liberty/

Interpreting Scripture Through Mystery, Doubt, And Ancient Lit: A Review Of "Inspired", Kayt E. Frisch

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

"In her new book, Inspired, popular blogger Rachel Held Evans engagingly wrestles in reconciling the difficult passages in the Old Testament with the overarching message of the Bible."

Posting about the book Inspired 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/interpreting-scripture-through-mystery-doubt-ancient-lit-a-review-of-inspired/

Loving Our Neighbors: A Review Of "The Gospel Comes With A House Key", Emily Rowe

Staff Work

"Have we authentically shared the gospel in ways that people can hear, see, touch, and taste? Has 'loving our neighbors' been genuinely, substantially, and sacrificially practiced?"

Posting about the book The Gospel Comes with a House Key: Practicing Radically Ordinary Hospitality in Our Post-Christian 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/loving-our-neighbors-a-review-of-the-gospel-comes-with-a-house-key/

A Review Of Robert Sweetman's Tracing The Lines: Spiritual Exercise And The Gesture Of Christian Scholarship, Calvin Seerveld

Pro Rege

Reviewed Title: Tracing the Lines: Spiritual Exercise and the Gesture of Christian Scholarship by Robert Sweetman. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2016. 177 pp. ISBN: 9781498296830

Movies Are Prayers (Book Review), Joshua Matthews

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

"I think that Josh Larsen believes that movies can be important imaginative visions, but he goes one step further."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­the book Movies are Prayers 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/movies-are-prayers-book-review/

Review Of Telling Tales About Jesus: An Introduction To The New Testament Gospels, James F. Mcgrath

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Article reviews the book, Telling Tales about Jesus: An Introduction to the New Testament Gospels, by Warren Carter.

Review: The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights And The Challenge Of Religion, Bharat Ranganathan

Religion Faculty Publications

Since the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1948, the language of human rights has become a lingua franca among many jurists, philosophers, and theologians. But over the same period of time, the universalist aspirations of human rights language have also attracted myriad critics, both religious and secular. For these critics, the language of human rights isn’t sufficiently common to identify, discuss, and adjudicate moral and political issues. In The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Challenge of Religion, the rightly influential human rights scholar Johannes Morsink develops an argument that …

Iat Book Club: How To Think, Erin Olson, Mary Nickel, Myles Werntz, Justin Bailey

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

This book club series features the book, "How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds," by Alan Jacobs. Various voices have contributed to the series as they interacted with one another and responded to the book. Series contributors are Erin Olson, Mary Nickel, Myles Werntz, and Justin Bailey.

Access at publisher's site: https://inallthings.org/iat-book-club-how-to-think-round-table-2/

Surviving Secular Apocalypse: A "How-To" Book For The End Of The World, Justin Bailey

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"Eschatological fascination is not limited to believers wrestling with biblical texts. This, at least, is the argument made by Robert Joustra and Alissa Wilkinson in their remarkable book."

Posting about apocalyptic themes in modern culture 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/surviving-secular-apocalypse-a-how-to-book-for-the-end-of-the-world/

Book Review - Destroyer Of The Gods: Early Christian Distinctiveness In The Roman World, By Larry W. Hurtado, Wayne Brindle

Faculty Publications and Presentations

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Saints At Devil's Gate: Landscapes Along The Mormon Trail, Herman Du Toit

BYU Studies Quarterly

Laura Allred Hurtado and Bryon C. Andreasen. Saints at Devil's Gate: Landscapes along the Mormon Trail.

Salt Lake City: Church Historian's Press, 2016.

Race And Making Of The Mormon People, Matthew L. Harris

BYU Studies Quarterly

Max Perry Mueller. Race and the Making of the Mormon People.

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017.

Mormonism And The Emotions: An Analysis Of Lds Scriptural Texts, Richard N. Williams

BYU Studies Quarterly

Mauro Properzi. Mormonism and the Emotions: An Analysis of LDS Scriptural Texts.

Vancouver, B.C.: Farleigh Dickenson University Press, 2015.

The Believing Scientist: Essays On Science And Religion, Hyrum Lewis

BYU Studies Quarterly

Stephen M. Barr. The Believing Scientist: Essays on Science and Religion.

Grand Rapids, Mich: William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2016.

Feeding The Flock: The Foundations Of Mormon Thought: Church And Praxis, Mark A. Wrathall

BYU Studies Quarterly

Feeding the Flock: The Foundations of Mormon Thought: Church and Praxis By Terryl L. Givens

New York: Oxford University Press, 2017

Mountain Meadows Massacre: Collected Legal Papers, Iantha Haight

BYU Studies Quarterly

Mountain Meadows Massacre: Collected Legal Papers Edited by Richard E. Turley Jr., Janiece L. Johnson, and LaJean Purcell Carruth

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2017

Voice Of The Saints In Taiwan, Richard B. Stamps

BYU Studies Quarterly

Voice of the Saints in Taiwan By Po Nien (Felipe) Chou and Mei Wah Sin (Petra) Chou

Provo, Utah: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2017

The Mormon Jesus: A Biography, Andrew C. Reed

BYU Studies Quarterly

John G. Turner. The Mormon Jesus: A Biography.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016.

An Introduction To The Book Of Abraham, Adam Oliver Stokes

BYU Studies Quarterly

John Gee. An Introduction to the Book of Abraham.

Salt Lake City: BYU Religious Studies Center, 2017.

The Memory Of The Temple And The Making Of The Rabbis, Avram R. Shannon

BYU Studies Quarterly

Naftali S. Cohn. The Memory of the Temple and the Making of the Rabbis.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.

Emmeline B. Wells: An Intimate History, Cherry Silver

BYU Studies Quarterly

Coral Cornwall Madsen. Emmeline B. Wells: An Intimate History.

Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2017.

Revelations And Translations, Volume 1: Manuscript Revelation Books And Volume 2: Published Revelations, James B. Allen

BYU Studies Quarterly

Robin Scott Jensen, Robert J. Woodford, and Steven C. Harper, eds. Revelations and Translations, Volume 1: Manuscript Revelation Books.

The Joseph Smith Papers. Salt Lake City: The Church of Historian's Press, 2011.

Robin Scott Jensen, Richard E. Turley Jr., and Riley M. Lorimer, eds. Revelations and Translations, Volume 2: Published Revelations.

The Joseph Smith Papers. Salt Lake City: The Church Historian's Press, 2011.

Paco, Luke Howard

BYU Studies Quarterly

Nathan Thatcher. Paco.

New York: Mormon Artists Group, 2016.