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March 2025

March 04, 2025

Pride Economy: When Passion Becomes Workplace Exploitation

What is a Pride Economy? In Stolen Pride, Arlie Hochschild shares how powerful dynamics of...

February 2025

February 04, 2025

Tribal is a book worth reading!

In Tribal: How the Cultural Instincts That Divide Us Can Help Bring Us Together, Michael...

November 2023

November 14, 2023

Status Is a Fundamental Desire with Practical Benefits

Status is the hierarchy resulting from how we value (appraise) differences. A fundamental desire, status...

June 2023

June 13, 2023

Don’t Assume You Know the Early Church’s Missionary Motivations

What are our motivations for participating in God’s missionary calling upon the church to spread...

January 2023

January 31, 2023

This is the Most Dangerous Mission Book in a Generation. Seriously.

At best, A Just Mission is a missed opportunity. At worst, it’s dangerous because its...

June 2022

June 14, 2022

Being and Becoming a Centered-Set Church

Mark Baker’s Centered-Set Church is a long-needed resource for Christians who want to reevaluate fundamentally how...

June 07, 2022

Three Basic Paradigms that Define Church

People use three paradigms to define and describe churches. One can intuitively see that the...

April 2022

April 26, 2022

What was Paul’s Missionary Motive? Probably Not What You’re Thinking

But Elliot Clark reminds us of a fundamental motive that underlies all of Paul’s work...

February 2022

February 01, 2022

Can We improve How We Play Status Games? Here are 8 Ideas

Can we improve the way we play status games? Yes, we can! This post offers...

January 2022

January 25, 2022

The Insatiable Search for Status

How do status games practically affect our lives? Will Storr offers an array of answers....

November 2021

November 30, 2021

How do Jesus and Paul talk about “outsiders”?

Some of the richest insights when interpreting the Bible come when readers attend to its...

April 2020

April 28, 2020

How Paul Uses Shame in His Letters

The goal of Te-Li Lau’s "Defending Shame" is to explore Paul’s use of shame for the...

April 21, 2020

How Ancient Greeks and Jews Used Shame

There is an internal logic to shame. This is one reason Te-Li Lau writes Part 1...

April 14, 2020

An Overview of Te-Li Lau’s Defending Shame

I might have found my new favorite honor-shame book. The title of Te-Li Lau’s new...

February 2020

February 05, 2020

The Gospel Coalition Reviews “Reading Romans”

A few people have asked, “What do you think about The Gospel Coalition’s review of...

December 2019

December 30, 2019

“Grace in the City” Shares Sermons from Chinese Pastors

Nicholas Romanin reviews a new book, Grace to the City: Studies in the Gospel from...

August 2019

August 21, 2019

Must we choose either biblical theology or missions?

A few years ago, I sat in the lobby of a Thai hotel talking with...

May 2019

May 01, 2019

Reviews of Recent Mission and Culture Books (Plus a Few More)

We can’t read everything. That’s why journals offer book reviews. The recent issue of Themelios...

August 2018

August 28, 2018

Is honor significant for society?

Why does honor matter at a social level? Tamler Sommers’ Why Honor Matters offers several answers...

August 08, 2018

Living without Honor is Immoral?

How does honor shape our views of morality? How does not having an honor perspective influence...

August 01, 2018

How Honor Motives Moral Behavior

When it comes to honor, Tamler Sommers is a realist, not a romantic. He challenges...

July 2018

July 25, 2018

Why Honor Matters is a must read. Here’s why.

Why Honor Matters will be one of the most significant and controversial books of the...

April 2018

April 26, 2018

My take on Kraft’s latest book and other recent reviews in Themelios

This month Themelios has a few book reviews you might find interesting. Contours of...

February 2018

February 07, 2018

“Holiness, holiness is what I need.” Really?

If you ever sang “Take my Life” in church, you have probably been taught that...

January 2018

January 31, 2018

Did the Canaanites actually break God’s Law?

Section 3 of The Lost World of the Israelite Conquest is called “The Canaanites are...

January 24, 2018

What the Bible Does Not Say about the Canaanites

Why did Israel attempt to clear the Canaanites from the promised land?

January 18, 2018

Reviewing “The Lost World of the Israelite Conquest”

Although John Walton never shies from controversial topics, his recent book is bold, even by...

October 2017

October 18, 2017

Brene Brown is Wrong. We Don’t Belong in the Wilderness

I can’t recommend Brene Brown’s new book. And she likely doesn’t care. I pre-ordered Braving...

August 2017

August 09, 2017

The Power of “Popularity” in the Church

Few subjects are so paradoxical as popularity. “Popular” kids often are the most liked and...

May 2017

May 24, 2017

How Metaphors Make Us Moral

“Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.” Arguably, John...