The American evangelical church today faces profound political and cultural challenges. It is vitally important for the church to understand these challenges more fully and to think about them more theologically. It is also important for the church to repent of how we have failed to be the edifying and countercultural influence we ought to be, and craft an approach to public and political life that bears authentic and life-giving witness to who our God is and what he is like. In this book, the author shows how Justin Martyr, a prominent second-century church leader, provides a useful and powerful...

Christian graduate students often enter environments where intellectual rigor is high but spiritual support is limited. Stewarding Studentship: Navigating Faith and Learning in the Graduate Experience brings together student voices from across disciplines to illuminate what it means to pursue advanced study while remaining rooted in the Christian tradition. In settings where faith is sidelined or simply overlooked, these authors—these students—offer honest accounts of the tensions, hopes, and daily practices that sustain them.

Each chapter blends personal narrative with practical wisdom, showing how emerging scholars integrate their faith into research, teaching, leadership, and community life. Rather than abstract theory, readers...

Sermons preached before a congregation are only one way people hear messages of faith. Whether the listener is seated in a pew or listening to a podcast or a book about faith, most of the faith-talk people hear is shaped by a speaker's faith sensibility. And those faith sensibilities can generally be distinguished as four distinctly different "voices" of preaching. Understanding what these voices are, how they differ in purpose as well as design, and how excellence in each voice can make for greater authenticity in communicating faith is what this book is about. The author canvases the tradition of...