Part 1 Review by Kevin Timpe for Clifton’s “Crippled Grace”
April 10, 2019
BY KEVIN TIMPE on April 6, 2019 One of the things I like about Clifton’s book, which I’ve argued for in my own work, is that by paying attention to… READ MORE
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Not Just Tuneful But True…a review of “The Five Quintets”
April 5, 2019
BY JOHN O’DONNELL on April 1, 2019 The Five Quintets, by Micheal O’Siadhail, Baylor University Press, 384 pp, $34.95, ISBN: 978-1481307093 In “Haiku One” the poet John Cooper Clarke ruefully… READ MORE
Church Times review of “Confronting Religious Violence”
April 1, 2019
BY PHILIP LEWIS on March 29, 2019 THIS volume is a fitting tribute to Rabbi Lord Sacks, winner of the 2016 Templeton Prize. After its presentation, the Templeton Foundation organised… READ MORE
Review of “The Reformation And the Right Reading of Scripture” by Iain Provan
BY WYATT GRAHAM on March 24, 2019 Iain Provan has picked a fight with retrieval theology and certain forms of conservative Christianity (e.g., with Norm Geisler). While making his case… READ MORE
Reading Religion review of “Exploring Biblical Backgrounds”
March 18, 2019
BY BRENT NIEDERGALL on March 15, 2019 In Exploring Biblical Backgrounds: A Reader in Historical and Literary Contexts, editors Derek S. Dodson and Katherine E. Smith have mustered a useful collection… READ MORE
The Christian Century review of “Crippled Grace”
BY JASON MICHELI on March 14, 2019 On a summer Sunday, after the last few worshipers trickled through my line, their hands outstretched like beggars, I carried the body and blood… READ MORE
Magdala: A Galilean Town
BY LARRY HURTADO on March 5, 2019 For anyone seriously interested in Galilee in the time of Jesus, the recently published multi-author volume edited by Richard Bauckham is a must-read: Magdala… READ MORE
An Irish Dante: Micheal O’Siadhail
February 11, 2019
BY MORIAH SPECIALE on March 2019 Sartre famously wrote that “hell is other people,” but for the poet Micheal O’Siadhail, hell is a highly specific group of other people. Among… READ MORE
Finding Rest in the Haven reviewed “Exploring Biblical Backgrounds”
BY KEVIN McKISSICK on February 11, 2019 Dodson, Derek S., and Katherine E. Smith. Exploring Biblical Backgrounds: A Reader in Historical & Literary Contexts. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2018. 260 pp.;… READ MORE
Art, economics, science, and all that jazz…
BY ANDREW HAMILTON on February 4, 2019 The Five Quintets, by Irish poet Micheal O’Siadhail, is a gloriously unfashionable book. In an age of lyrics it is a long, conversational poem… READ MORE