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    Book Review: That Blessed Liberty

    Posted on April 14, 2026
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    Miles Smith, IV, and Adam Carrington. That Blessed Liberty: Episcopal Bishops and the Development of the American Republic, 1789–1860. Prolego Press, 2025. 179 pp. Between the surrender at Yorktown and the first shots at Sumter, the United States did more than construct a constitutional order. It also quietly and often anxiously reshaped its religious life….

    A Heart Aflame for God

    Book Review: A Heart Aflame for God

    Posted on March 17, 2026
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    Matthew Bingham, A Heart Aflame for God: A Reformed Approach to Spiritual Formation. Crossway, 2025. 368 pp. The internet is a marvelous and maddening place. A single viral clip can be watched by millions and yet leave no lasting impact beyond a moment of humor, shock, or provocation. At the same time, voices that would…

    The Gospel After Christendom

    Book Review: The Gospel After Christendom

    Posted on February 26, 2026
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    In The Gospel After Christendom, the writers, pastors, and scholars of The Gospel Coalition and the Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics have applied a similar understanding of cultural apologetics in a unified collection of essays designed to “define cultural apologetics, explain its biblical and historical grounding, and demonstrate how it is important for the church today.”

    Reading the Bible with Ten Church Fathers

    Book Review: Reading the Bible with Ten Church Fathers

    Posted on February 16, 2026
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    Gerald Bray, Reading the Bible with Ten Church Fathers: How to Interpret, Teach, and Preach Like the Early Christians. Baker, 2026. 224 pp. Anglican theology has long understood the reading of Scripture to be a communal and historical act, shaped not only by the text itself but by the Church’s faithful reception of it across…

    Anglican Spirituality

    Book Review: Anglican Spirituality: An Introduction by Greg Peters

    Posted on January 29, 2026
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    Greg Peters, Anglican Spirituality: An Introduction. Cascade Book, 2024. 108 pp. For many of us, the look and feel of being Anglican is as attractive as anything else it has to offer. Prayer Book spirituality is marked by modesty and calm, and methodical ways of speaking and thinking. There is a commitment to a discipline…

    Christian Dogma by Stone

    Book Review: Christian Dogma by Darwell Stone

    Posted on January 19, 2026
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    Darwell Stone, Expanded by Thomas Plant. Christian Dogma: Outlines of Orthodox Anglican Theology. Anglican House, 2025. What Great Tradition? It is very common to hear Anglicans appeal to a solid body of doctrine that existed in the past. Christians have referred to it by various names: the ancient faith, the “little-c” catholic Faith, the Great…

    Paul, Apostle of Grace

    Book Review: Paul, Apostle of Grace by Frank Thielman

    Posted on January 14, 2026
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    Frank Thielman’s Paul, Apostle of Grace begins with a welcome note of scholarly humility. Acknowledging the difficulty of reconstructing the life of one of Christianity’s most influential figures, Thielman makes clear that his aim is not to offer an exhaustive biography but rather a historically responsible portrait.

    The White Horse King

    Book Review: The White Horse King by Benjamin Merkle

    Posted on November 10, 2025
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    Benjamin Merkle, The White Horse King: The Life of Alfred the Great. Thomas Nelson, 2009. 272 pp. Contrary to what the spicier corners of Roman Catholic Twitter insist, the English Church did not begin in 1534, and Anglicanism did not spring fully formed from the head of Henry VIII like some Tudor Athena. Long before…