A Summer to Glory in Evil, and other reviews

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• A Summer to Glory in Evil? -- “...both of these shows stem from something first offered to children, and in the pull to complete a narrative, the viewer may not realize values change while characters stay the same.”
• Book Note: Jacob K. Olupona’s African Religions -- Though it takes an overall relativistic view on theology and religious practices (describing, rather than prescribing), this little book is a succinct, well-written, and insightful introduction to understanding African religions.
• Book Recommendation: What Happens When We Worship -- “We won’t chase after excitement or entertainment; rather, we will be satisfied with the simplicity and “ordinariness’ of what we do, recognizing that truly extraordinary things are happening by the Spirit of God.”
• Book Review: Help! I’m Married to My Pastor, by Jani Ortlund -- “Ortlund doesn’t simply dispense advice for common problems. She reorients the pastors’ wife to communicate with her husband about each of these topics.”
• Book Review: Parenting AAA: God’s Goals and Guidelines for Generational Spiritual Reproduction by Timothy Paul Geist -- “You will enjoy Geist’s book, whether you are a church leader or member, written in a style that digs deep but communicates in an understandable and practical manner.”
• Book Review: People of Promise, by Joseph Minich and Bradford Littlejohn (eds.) -- “Like me, I trust you’ll find a good deal in this book that’s edifying. But among Protestant traditions, Baptists will probably be the most put off by some of the arguments found here.”
• Book Review posted: Dirk Jongkind, An Introduction to the Greek New Testament (THGNT) -- “The author of this introduction is to be commended, inparticular, for offering a theological rationale for his approach to thetext of the New Testament and for his charitable interactions withthose who hold to differing views (namely, those who hold to thepriority of the TR or the Byzantine positions).”
• Book Reviews, Novum Testamentum: Assimilation as a Criterion for the Establishment of the Text -- “The main motive behind Wisselink’s thesis is to prevent our branding the Byzantine text inferior because of its alleged harmonizing character. Those who denigrate the Byzantine text reach such a conclusion, according to Wisselink, because of an unsound methodological basis.”
• Canon Revisited by Michael J. Kruger -- “I’m confident that this book will help you think well through ‘the question about whether the Christian belief in the canon is intellectually justified.’”
• Critique of Ruckmanism Ruckus, a new book in defense of Peter Ruckman -- “Kim writes, ‘Please understand I do not blindly believe in whatever Ruckmanism teaches.’ However, in the entire book Kim expresses no disagreement with Ruckman on anything.”
• How We Got the Bible: Third Edition, Revised and Expanded -- “Lightfoot appears to give the same kind of slavish devotion to the modern Westcott-Hort text that he accuses those who promote the older Textus Receptus and the King James Bible of having to that text.”
• Introduction to the Seventh-day Adventist Clear Word Bible -- “This is interesting and problematic since in many places the CWB does not allow the Bible to interpret itself, but in fact, drastically alters the original verses when they don’t fit SDA theology.”
• Review of online article: “Beza and Revelation 16:5” -- “One of the things I would be most interested to know is whether Beza made a pure conjectural emendation or if he had some manuscript evidence to support this reading.”
• Review of Textual Criticism and the Bible, by Anderson and Widder -- “Amy Anderson and Wendy Widder...provide a text easy to read and understand that gradually leads to more and more complex matters of method and approach...”
• REVIEW: The Sermon on the Mount and Human Flourishing by Jonathan Pennington -- “Pennington does an exceptionally admirable job of keeping his perceived main theme of the sermon in view.”
• WM 205: Interview: David Charles on Albert N. Martin Festschrift -- “David Charles is co-editor of A Workman Not Ashamed: Essays in Honor of Albert N. Martin (Free Grace Press, 2021)”