By the Rivers of Water (Erskine Clarke, 2013)

Books / Discernment

Needing the gospel By the Rivers of Water is far and away the best missionary biography I have ever read. In fact, it is…

Poetry: Stretching

Poetry

I’ve been working on doing the splits both ways side splits and scissor splits I started Friday and now it’s Wednesday and I think…

Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach, 2019)

Movies

A death without a body From the beginning my goal in Critique has been to call attention to films that are worth discussion and…

Bring the War Home (Kathleen Belew, 2018)

Books

The Legacy of the White Power Movement It is the difficult work of historians to bring order to the past. The very best historical…

Between the World and Me (Ta-Nehisi Coates, 2015)

Books

This short book, Nobel and Pulitzer prize winner Toni Morrison rightly says, “is required reading.” Composed as a letter to his son, Coates writes…

The Politics of Ministry (Burns, Chapman, & Guthrie, 2019)

Books

In school there was always a sigh of disappointment when our professor assigned us to work in groups. Having to deal with others always…

Poetry: A Constellation

Poetry

Faithfully shining this fam’ly of stars Patiently pointing in radiant song Wheeling in motion to music they sing The love in the law of…

Conspiracy (Frank Pierson, 2001)

Movies

What does evil look like? Once upon a time the face of evil was easily recognizable at least in the movies. It looked like…

The Lord’s Prayer (Wesley Hill, 2019)

Books

The Lord’s Prayer It is hard to pray in our world of advanced modernity, even for those of us who believe in prayer. We…

Firstfruits of a New Creation (Doug Serven, editor, 2019)

Books

Firstfruits of a New Creation Several years ago, I set aside time to attend a lecture series by Jerram Barrs. As I was about…