Category Archives: Author Submission

The Drama of Scripture: Finding our Place in the Biblical Story, 2024

Craig G Bartholomew and Michael W. Goheen, The Drama of Scripture: Finding our Place in the Biblical Story. 3rd ed. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2024. ISBN: 9781540966018. By Terry G. Hiebert, PhD The Drama of Scripture by Craig G. Bartholomew and … Continue reading

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How Can the Bible Guide Our Consumption?

By Brian Albright, PhD Financial decisions can be connected to several challenges that people face in life. Personal debt and working long hours can cause stress on families. The businesses that supply people’s needs are regularly accused of harming the climate … Continue reading

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Evangelicals and Liturgy

By Lorn Gieck, DWS  Introduction  After ignoring liturgy for centuries many evangelical churches are experimenting with it. This article is an attempt to understand why and how, after all this time, a new renewal of worship is occurring in the … Continue reading

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God, Self, Identity, and the Adolescent Task of Getting Organized

By Chris D. Clements, PhD A casual opening note to youth workers, mentors and caring adults: I can remember being a teenager in a Bible study series my youth group was running. Our group leader reminded us often that it … Continue reading

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Review of Evangelism: Learning from the Past, 2023

Green, Michael. Evangelism: Learning from the Past. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2023, 151 pages. ISBN 9780802883438 By Susan Booth, PhD Michael Green (1930-2019) was educated at Exeter College, Oxford, and Queens’ College, Cambridge. Graced with an exceptional ability to balance scholarship … Continue reading

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Review of Before We Gather: Devotions for Worship Leaders & Teams, 2023

Hicks, Zac. Before We Gather: Devotions for Worship Leaders & Teams. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2023. ISBN 9780310145073 By Johnny Markin, DWS In the burgeoning world of literature devoted to informing and equipping worship leaders in the Christian Church, Zac Hicks … Continue reading

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Review of Christian Academic Writing: Twelve Practices and Principles for Becoming a Successful Writer, 2024

Benjamin L. Merkle and Adrianne Cheek Miles. Christian Academic Writing: Twelve Practices and Principles for Becoming a Successful Writer. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2024. 176 Pages ISBN 9781540965998 By Joel Houston, PhD Benjamin L. Merkle (Dr. M.O. Owens Jr. … Continue reading

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The Anonymous King: A Foundation for a Messianic Reading of the Psalter

While scholarship on the Psalms has a long history, a more recent movement has been to study the Psalms not as a mere collection of individual pieces but as a whole, an editorially crafted book…. Continue reading

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Help, Lord, I have Spiritual E/BD

By Kenneth A. Pudlas, EdD For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For I do not … Continue reading

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Review of A History of Contemporary Praise and Worship: Understanding the Ideas that Reshaped the Protestant Church, 2021

Lester Ruth, Lim Swee Hong.  A History of Contemporary Praise & Worship: Understanding the Ideas that Reshaped the Protestant Church. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2021. ISBN 978-1-5409-6753-4 By Christine Longhurst, DWS In A History of Contemporary Praise & Worship: … Continue reading

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Singing With Jesus: The Psalms in Christian Worship

By Ken Michell, DWS In the conversations surrounding worship music in the North American Protestant church, discussions tend to revolve around a simple dichotomy: traditional hymnody versus contemporary worship. Into this debate, Barry Liesch proposed that both be recognized as … Continue reading

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Review of Hope in Addiction: Understanding and Helping Those Caught in Its Grip, 2023

Partington, Andy. (2023). Hope in Addiction: Understanding and Helping Those Caught in the Grip, Moody Publishers, Chicago. By Estera Boldut, PsyD What does it mean to be the church in a world where addiction reaches epidemic proportions? How can loved … Continue reading

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Seminary Faculty Reflections on Competency Based Theological Education: Confessions of a (Former) Agnostic

By Michael Morelli, PhD When Northwest Seminary and College hired me five years ago to oversee their fledgling competency-based theological education (CBTE) undergraduate programs, I was neither skeptical nor supportive. I was agnostic. Limited job prospects for a recent PhD … Continue reading

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Review of The Great Story and the Great Commission: Participating in the Biblical Drama of Mission, 2023

Christopher J.H. Wright, The Great Story and the Great Commission: Participating in the Biblical Drama of Mission. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2023. ISBN:   9781540966162. $31.99. By Blayne A. Banting, DMin, PhD The Great Story and the Great Commission is … Continue reading

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Review of Healthy Leadership for Thriving Organizations, 2023

Irving, Justin A., Healthy Leadership for Thriving Organizations. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2023. 242 pp. ISBN 9781540964809 By Grant McMillan, MA Justin A. Irving, Professor of Christian Leadership at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and coauthor of Leadership in Christian … Continue reading

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