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21.67 Justin Bailey’s Reimagining Apologetics: The Beauty of Faith in a Secular Age highlights a problem that plagues certain forms of Christian persuasion: the failure to take imagination seriously. For some Christians, apologetics is a matter of dry-as-the-desert technical arguments—or of intellectually arm-wrestling non-Christians into submission. Add an evangelical ethos hopelessly enamored with perpetual culture-warring, and you have a profound problem in much current Christian witness. Bailey begins by noting that, according to philosopher Charles Taylor, we live in a world (a “so...

A Look at Notable 2020 Publications Continuing the tradition of reflecting on some of the year's noteworthy publications. David S. Dockery Image: Nick Fewings/Unsplash Each year, my friend David Dockery releases an end-of-year list of noteworthy books. I am happy to share them with you. I trust that the forthcoming holiday period will provide moments for rest and renewal for many from what has been an exhausting 2020. Perhaps these days will even provide an opportunity for some of us to catch up on some of the important publications that have been released since last year’s holida...