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The Weekly Wrap: July 5-11 My reading bubble, reading declines, excess books, faith conversations, professors, The Millions summer preview....

Review: The Gospel After Christendom An intro to cultural apologetics, explaining how it is done and in what context, and what questions it answers....

Review: Reading the Bible on Turtle Island A reading of scripture that takes North American indigenous culture and experience seriously....

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....