VIDEO: Review of Ryan Burge’s ‘The Vanishing Church’
What does Ryan Burge’s The Vanishing Church reveal about religious decline in America? Burge studies American religion through survey data. In The Vanishing Church, he examines evangelicals, Catholics, mainline Protestants, […]
Review of Ryan Burge’s ‘The Vanishing Church’
Ryan Burge is a unique person. He’s a political scientist by training. For about seventeen years, he was also the preacher for a small church in Illinois. When that church […]
VIDEO: Review of Paul Kingsnorth’s ‘Against the Machine’
What is “the machine,” and how is technology reshaping our culture, identity, and faith? In this RENEW Review, Chad Ragsdale examines Paul Kingsnorth’s Against the Machine and its warning that […]
Review of Paul Kingsnorth’s ‘Against the Machine’
How long can a plant live once it has been uprooted? Days? Weeks? There are various factors that might lead to longer or shorter survival times, but the one thing […]
VIDEO: Review of Carl Trueman’s ‘The Desecration of Man’
Like many prophets, Nietzsche was ahead of his time. There is a time lag between announcing the “death of God” and dealing with the consequences of that death. In The […]
Review of Carl Trueman’s ‘The Desecration of Man’
You know those inflatable bouncy houses that people rent for their kids’ birthday parties? I want you to imagine this scenario. Pretend that all inflatables somehow became sentient. In fact, […]
VIDEO: Review of ‘Scrolling Ourselves to Death’
In 1985, Neil Postman published his seminal book on technology and cultural analysis, Amusing Ourselves to Death. How might Postman guide us in this era of social media and artificial […]
VIDEO: Review of ‘The Missing Messiah’ by Kyle Idleman & Mark Moore
What does it mean to call Jesus “Christ,” and what difference does it make to answer that question correctly? That question is what lies at the heart of a new […]