The Ethical Vision of Clint Eastwood (Sara Vaux)
Review by Jared Austin While many films Hollywood produces excel aesthetically, most are full of postmodern secularism and lack common ground with the Christian viewer. Conversely, directors such as Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, and the Coen brothers make films many Christians have analyzed because of their religious themes which inform and shape public thought. Another such director is the iconic Clint Eastwood. In her book The...
Presence, Power, and Promise (eds. David G. Firth and Paul D. Wegner)
FIRTH, David G. Firth and Paul D. Wegner, eds., Presence, Power and Promise: The Role of the Spirit of God in the Old Testament, Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2011, 415 pp. $24.00 paperback, ISBN 978-0-8308-3975-5. Review by Kevin Williford Throughout the church’s history, Christians have often found it difficult to relate to the Old Testament (“OT”). On the one hand, some write off the Old Testament as being, well, the “Old”...
Civic Order, Foreign Affairs, and Biblical Subjection: A Soldier’s Appraisal
Essay by Nathan Trimble The United State of America: The name is known across the world for many reasons, some excellent and some terrible. Nevertheless, it is known in part because of its military influence. Throughout America’s stormy past, the U.S. President and Congress have used the military to defend the nation, to rescue the politically oppressed, and most recently to conduct “counterinsurgency and stability operations in Iraq...
Helping Henry: Ministering to Those With Same-Sex Attractions
Essay by Eddie Moody “Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord...
Two Testaments, One Soul
Essay by Matthew McAffee What hath Greece to do with Israel? On many levels, modern critical scholarship would be comfortable with a negative response to such a question. They would argue that the Greek ideas of the first century have so influenced the writers of the New Testament that they no longer resemble their Hebrew predecessors theologically. We might say that they have simply moved on with the times. This trajectory poses...
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