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Review: The Red and the Green The tangled lives and loves of a Dublin Irish family at the time of the Irish Rebellion of Easter Monday 1916....

Review: Make Me an Instrument of Your Peace A reflection on the Prayer of St Francis and how we might be transformed into instruments of peace....

Review: Reading Evangelicals A study of how the Christian fiction evangelicals read in recent decades shaped the evangelical imagination....

The Weekly Wrap: June 28-July 4 America at 250: articles, an interview with Jill Lepore, two forums, and Pope Leo XIV's letter....

Review: Feasting on Hope Through her own story of loss, shows how Communion sets our grief within the larger reality of Christian hope....

Review: Desolation Mountain When a U.S. senator's plane crashes, Cork seeks the truth behind the crash and Stephen, a recurring dream....

The Month in Reviews: June 2026 Summaries of twenty-one reviews of books at Bob on Books in June 2026 and my best book of the month....

Review: Power and the Pulpit A theology of preaching grounded in God's word and Christ-centered, Spirit-empowered preaching with humility....

Review: Woven Tales of Greek Mythology A rendering of Greek mythology from creation to the odyssey with parallels to Judeo-Christian texts....

The Weekly Wrap: June 21-27 Reading the classics, American classics, pluralism in Queens, whither Protestants, a classics library....

Review: Pyramids Prince Teppic, having completed Assassins training, returns to be Pharoah of Djelibeybi, ordering the building of a huge pyramid....

Review: Remember the Sweetness A debut poetry collection capturing memories of beauty, loss, love, and family, both ordinary and profound....

Review: Ordinary Time The significance of Ordinary Time within the church calendar and how it has been practiced and what it can mean for us....

Review: Race, Class, and Affirmative Action The effects of SFFA v. Harvard on efforts to advance diversity in college admissions and what may be done....

Review: Heaven and Hell A discussion of the traditional doctrines of hell and heaven that we might flee hell and embrace the hope of heaven....

The Weekly Wrap: June 14-20 Reading fathers, book-cations, American religious history, Juneteenth, Marjane Satrapi, World Cup Soccer....

Review: When God Seems Distant How God's path of growth takes us into the desert, the way it exposes our self-will, and how we abide in God's love....