The Dordt University criminal justice program prepares students and the community for service by equipping them with God-centered insight, skills, and knowledge for the purpose of doing justice in the criminal justice system.
Submissions from 2023
Clarifying the Application of the Temple Metaphor in Christian Education, Donald Roth
Cultural Contours of a Christian Worldview: A Review of Biblical Critical Theory, Donald Roth
From Worldvision to Worldview: A Review of Personality and Worldview, Donald Roth
NDAs: How Should Christians Think about Non-Disclosure Agreements?, Donald Roth
Toward a Covenantal Christian Political Theology: A Review of Politics after Christendom, Donald Roth
Unsung Holiday: Memorial Day and Christian Patriotism, Donald Roth
Faculty Work from 2022
A Christian Response to Pride Month: Is Pride Revolution or Carnival?, Donald Roth
A Christian Response to Pride Month: Pride and Sabbath, Donald Roth
Cultivating Organic Creativity: A Review of The Imagination Machine, Donald Roth
Desiring Rightly: A Review of Wanting, Donald Roth
Distilling Kuyper: A Review of Calvinism for a Secular Age, Donald Roth
Redeeming Negative Emotions: A Review of The Power of Regret, Donald Roth
Submissions from 2021
"Building the Temple": An Alternative Metaphor to the Use of "Kingdom" in the Christian University Context, Donald Roth
He is Strong When We are Weak: A Review of Gentle and Lowly, Donald Roth
Inauguration Day and the Politics of a Partial Exorcism, Donald Roth
Learning to Eat your Vegetables: A Review of Contours of the Kuyperian Tradition from a Teacher's Perspective, Donald Roth
Neo-Calvinism for the Nations: Reviewing Part 2 & 3 of Reformed Public Theology, Donald Roth
Recovering a Grammar for the Soul: A Review of The Logic of the Body, Donald Roth
The Catechism as Counter-Culture: A Review of You Are Not Your Own, Donald Roth
Too Much of a Good Thing?: A Review of Overdoing Democracy, Donald Roth
Faculty Work from 2020
Gratitude as Worldview: A Review of Eucharistic Reciprocity, Donald Roth
Maintaining Allegiance: A Review of Compassion and Conviction, Donald Roth
OK for Boomers: How Do We Remember Those Who are Locked Down as We Open Up?, Donald Roth
Social Media is Politics by Other Means: A Review of LikeWar, Donald Roth
Supreme Court Decisions in Review (Part 2), Donald Roth
Faculty Work from 2019
Comfort in the Canons: A Review of Saving the Reformation, Donald Roth
Defending the Marital Sphere: A Review of Church, State, and Family, Donald Roth
Empathy is Unreasonable: A Review of Against Empathy, Donald Roth
Fixing Metric Fixation: A Review of The Tyranny of Metrics, Donald Roth
Making Peace with a God of Vengeance, Donald Roth
New Year, New You? Unpacking the Liturgy of the New Year's Resolution, Donald Roth
Our Criminal Justice System Should Not Be Our Mental Health System (But It Is), Donald Roth
The Inscrutable Other: A Review of Talking to Strangers, Donald Roth
Faculty Work from 2018
American Christians: A Review of "The Redemptive Self", Donald Roth
Do Bakers Have to Bake Cakes for Same-Sex Weddings?, Donald Roth
Fact-Checking Claims about Winners and Losers with New Tax Reform (Part I), Donald Roth
Fact-Checking Claims about Winners and Losers with New Tax Reform (Part II), Donald Roth
Grading the New Tax Law, Donald Roth
The Danger of Dreaming about the Apocalypse, Donald Roth
The Fortnite Phenomenon: Should Christians be Wary? (Part I), Donald Roth
The Fortnite Phenomenon: Should Christians be Wary? (Part II), Donald Roth
The New Tax Law in Context, Donald Roth
What Online Communities Leave Out: Unlikely Friendships, Donald Roth, Justin Bailey, and Matt Arbo
Why Doesn't the U.S. Mandate Paid Leave?, Donald Roth
Faculty Work from 2017
5 Things You May Not Know About Our Tax System, Donald Roth
Can We Be Pragmatic and Prophetic in the Age of Trump?, Donald Roth
Discipleship and Imagination, Donald Roth
Discipleship and Narrative Metaphor, Donald Roth
Has a Nation Ever Changed its Gods?, Donald Roth
How Did We Get Our Tax System? (And What Can That Teach Us About Reforming It?), Donald Roth
I Know Whom I Have Believed, Donald Roth
Imagining Discipleship Through Narrative Metaphor, Donald Roth
Meet DACA's Demise with Determination, Not Despair, Donald Roth
Sphere Sovereignty and the Electoral College, Donald Roth
Supreme Court Term in Review: OT 2016, Donald Roth
What Might Tax Reform Look Like?, Donald Roth
Why I'm Thankful for Failure, Donald Roth
Faculty Work from 2016
5 Myths and Misconceptions About the War on Drugs, Donald Roth
Can Role Models Drink?, Donald Roth
Christians Just Wanna Have Fun, Donald Roth
Consumerism and the Church, Donald Roth
Fundamental Differences: How the Legal Lineage of Obergefell Can Help Us Frame a Response to It, Donald Roth
Gun Politics Aren't About Guns, Donald Roth
How Do Spouses Divide the Load?, Donald Roth and Erica Roth
Letter to Those Growing Up in a Post-9/11 World, Donald Roth
Linking Heart and Head as Parallel Systems: A Response to James K. A. Smith's You Are What You Love, Donald Roth
Populism and the Challenge of Democracy in 2016, Donald Roth
Problem with Cussing Christians and Easy Answers, Donald Roth
Race and Policing on the Second Anniversary of Ferguson, Donald Roth
Replacing Scalia, Donald Roth
Should Presidents Be Experts?, Donald Roth
The Lord will be Gracious, Donald Roth
What Did the Supreme Court Decide About the Contraception Mandate?, Donald Roth
Why Does My Insurance Cost So Much?, Donald Roth
Why I'm not Voting (for President), Donald Roth
Faculty Work from 2015
5 Legal Developments You May Have Missed in 2015, Donald Roth
Are the FCC's "New" Regulations Really an "Obamacare for the Internet"?, Donald Roth
Compensation as Cultivation, Donald Roth
Discipleship and Metaphor, Donald Roth
Free Religion is not Free Discrimination, Donald Roth
Helicopter or Free Range: A Dilemma of Modern Parenting, Donald Roth
Imagining the Kingdom: The Intersection of Religion and Violence, Donald Roth
Law and Human Nature, Donald Roth
Operative Metaphor and Antimony: A Framework for Understanding the Two-Kingdoms/Neo-Kuyperian Debate, Donald Roth
Regulations and Flexibility, Donald Roth
Revisiting Religious Freedom in Dordt v. Burwell, Donald Roth
Shooting in Ferguson, Donald Roth
Summary and Initial Response to the Same-Sex Marriage Ruling, Donald Roth
Through Generations, Donald Roth
Upholding the Inartful Drafting of Obamacare, Donald Roth
Vaccines and Religious Freedom, Donald Roth
Vanishing (Reformed) Youth, Donald Roth
Were the Terror Attacks in Paris Motivated by Radical Islam?, Donald Roth
What is Jesus' Will?, Donald Roth
What is Religious Liberty?, Donald Roth
When God Says "Work Harder", Donald Roth
Faculty Work from 2014
5 U.S. Supreme Court Cases Every Christian Should Be Aware Of, Donald Roth
Criminal Justice as Ministry, Donald Roth
Do Cameras Make a Difference? The Death of Eric Garner and another “No Indictment”, Donald Roth
No Indictment: Making Sense of Monday's Decision in Ferguson, Donald Roth