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Submissions from 2023

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Clarifying the Application of the Temple Metaphor in Christian Education, Donald Roth

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Cultural Contours of a Christian Worldview: A Review of Biblical Critical Theory, Donald Roth

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From Worldvision to Worldview: A Review of Personality and Worldview, Donald Roth

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NDAs: How Should Christians Think about Non-Disclosure Agreements?, Donald Roth

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Toward a Covenantal Christian Political Theology: A Review of Politics after Christendom, Donald Roth

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Unsung Holiday: Memorial Day and Christian Patriotism, Donald Roth

Faculty Work from 2022

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A Christian Response to Pride Month: Is Pride Revolution or Carnival?, Donald Roth

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A Christian Response to Pride Month: Pride and Sabbath, Donald Roth

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Cultivating Organic Creativity: A Review of The Imagination Machine, Donald Roth

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Desiring Rightly: A Review of Wanting, Donald Roth

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Distilling Kuyper: A Review of Calvinism for a Secular Age, Donald Roth

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Redeeming Negative Emotions: A Review of The Power of Regret, Donald Roth

Submissions from 2021

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"Building the Temple": An Alternative Metaphor to the Use of "Kingdom" in the Christian University Context, Donald Roth

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He is Strong When We are Weak: A Review of Gentle and Lowly, Donald Roth

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Inauguration Day and the Politics of a Partial Exorcism, Donald Roth

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Learning to Eat your Vegetables: A Review of Contours of the Kuyperian Tradition from a Teacher's Perspective, Donald Roth

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Neo-Calvinism for the Nations: Reviewing Part 2 & 3 of Reformed Public Theology, Donald Roth

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Recovering a Grammar for the Soul: A Review of The Logic of the Body, Donald Roth

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The Catechism as Counter-Culture: A Review of You Are Not Your Own, Donald Roth

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Too Much of a Good Thing?: A Review of Overdoing Democracy, Donald Roth

Faculty Work from 2020

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Gratitude as Worldview: A Review of Eucharistic Reciprocity, Donald Roth

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Maintaining Allegiance: A Review of Compassion and Conviction, Donald Roth

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OK for Boomers: How Do We Remember Those Who are Locked Down as We Open Up?, Donald Roth

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Social Media is Politics by Other Means: A Review of LikeWar, Donald Roth

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Supreme Court Decisions in Review (Part 2), Donald Roth

Faculty Work from 2019

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Comfort in the Canons: A Review of Saving the Reformation, Donald Roth

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Defending the Marital Sphere: A Review of Church, State, and Family, Donald Roth

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Empathy is Unreasonable: A Review of Against Empathy, Donald Roth

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Fixing Metric Fixation: A Review of The Tyranny of Metrics, Donald Roth

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Making Peace with a God of Vengeance, Donald Roth

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New Year, New You? Unpacking the Liturgy of the New Year's Resolution, Donald Roth

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Our Criminal Justice System Should Not Be Our Mental Health System (But It Is), Donald Roth

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The Inscrutable Other: A Review of Talking to Strangers, Donald Roth

Faculty Work from 2018

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American Christians: A Review of "The Redemptive Self", Donald Roth

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Do Bakers Have to Bake Cakes for Same-Sex Weddings?, Donald Roth

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Fact-Checking Claims about Winners and Losers with New Tax Reform (Part I), Donald Roth

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Fact-Checking Claims about Winners and Losers with New Tax Reform (Part II), Donald Roth

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Grading the New Tax Law, Donald Roth

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The Danger of Dreaming about the Apocalypse, Donald Roth

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The Fortnite Phenomenon: Should Christians be Wary? (Part I), Donald Roth

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The Fortnite Phenomenon: Should Christians be Wary? (Part II), Donald Roth

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The New Tax Law in Context, Donald Roth

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What Online Communities Leave Out: Unlikely Friendships, Donald Roth, Justin Bailey, and Matt Arbo

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Why Doesn't the U.S. Mandate Paid Leave?, Donald Roth

Faculty Work from 2017

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5 Things You May Not Know About Our Tax System, Donald Roth

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Can We Be Pragmatic and Prophetic in the Age of Trump?, Donald Roth

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Discipleship and Imagination, Donald Roth

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Discipleship and Narrative Metaphor, Donald Roth

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Has a Nation Ever Changed its Gods?, Donald Roth

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How Did We Get Our Tax System? (And What Can That Teach Us About Reforming It?), Donald Roth

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I Know Whom I Have Believed, Donald Roth

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Imagining Discipleship Through Narrative Metaphor, Donald Roth

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Meet DACA's Demise with Determination, Not Despair, Donald Roth

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Sphere Sovereignty and the Electoral College, Donald Roth

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Supreme Court Term in Review: OT 2016, Donald Roth

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What Might Tax Reform Look Like?, Donald Roth

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Why I'm Thankful for Failure, Donald Roth

Faculty Work from 2016

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5 Myths and Misconceptions About the War on Drugs, Donald Roth

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Can Role Models Drink?, Donald Roth

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Christians Just Wanna Have Fun, Donald Roth

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Consumerism and the Church, Donald Roth

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Fundamental Differences: How the Legal Lineage of Obergefell Can Help Us Frame a Response to It, Donald Roth

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Gun Politics Aren't About Guns, Donald Roth

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How Do Spouses Divide the Load?, Donald Roth and Erica Roth

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Letter to Those Growing Up in a Post-9/11 World, Donald Roth

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Linking Heart and Head as Parallel Systems: A Response to James K. A. Smith's You Are What You Love, Donald Roth

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Populism and the Challenge of Democracy in 2016, Donald Roth

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Problem with Cussing Christians and Easy Answers, Donald Roth

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Race and Policing on the Second Anniversary of Ferguson, Donald Roth

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Replacing Scalia, Donald Roth

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Should Presidents Be Experts?, Donald Roth

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The Lord will be Gracious, Donald Roth

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What Did the Supreme Court Decide About the Contraception Mandate?, Donald Roth

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Why Does My Insurance Cost So Much?, Donald Roth

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Why I'm not Voting (for President), Donald Roth

Faculty Work from 2015

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5 Legal Developments You May Have Missed in 2015, Donald Roth

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Are the FCC's "New" Regulations Really an "Obamacare for the Internet"?, Donald Roth

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Compensation as Cultivation, Donald Roth

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Discipleship and Metaphor, Donald Roth

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Free Religion is not Free Discrimination, Donald Roth

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Helicopter or Free Range: A Dilemma of Modern Parenting, Donald Roth

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Imagining the Kingdom: The Intersection of Religion and Violence, Donald Roth

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Law and Human Nature, Donald Roth

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Operative Metaphor and Antimony: A Framework for Understanding the Two-Kingdoms/Neo-Kuyperian Debate, Donald Roth

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Regulations and Flexibility, Donald Roth

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Revisiting Religious Freedom in Dordt v. Burwell, Donald Roth

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Shooting in Ferguson, Donald Roth

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Summary and Initial Response to the Same-Sex Marriage Ruling, Donald Roth

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Through Generations, Donald Roth

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Upholding the Inartful Drafting of Obamacare, Donald Roth

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Vaccines and Religious Freedom, Donald Roth

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Vanishing (Reformed) Youth, Donald Roth

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Were the Terror Attacks in Paris Motivated by Radical Islam?, Donald Roth

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What is Jesus' Will?, Donald Roth

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What is Religious Liberty?, Donald Roth

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When God Says "Work Harder", Donald Roth

Faculty Work from 2014

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5 U.S. Supreme Court Cases Every Christian Should Be Aware Of, Donald Roth

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Criminal Justice as Ministry, Donald Roth

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Do Cameras Make a Difference? The Death of Eric Garner and another “No Indictment”, Donald Roth

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No Indictment: Making Sense of Monday's Decision in Ferguson, Donald Roth