Articles by Judd Birdsall

What God Hath Put Asunder

Vol. 9, No. 2 (Summer 2011)

Judd Birdsall Monday, 13 June 2011

A review of Stephen Prothero, God is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World—and Why Their Differences Matter (HarperCollins, 2010).

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Gerson's Conservatism: Heroic or Heretical?

Vol. 6, No. 3 (Fall 2008)

Judd Birdsall Monday, 1 September 2008

A review of Heroic Conservatism: Why Republicans Need to Embrace American Ideals (And Why They Deserve to Fail if They Don't), by Michael Gerson.

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Understanding and Standing with the Persecuted

Vol. 6, No. 2 (Summer 2008)

Judd Birdsall Sunday, 1 June 2008

A review of Faith That Endures: The Essential Guide to the Persecuted Church, by Ronald Boyd-MacMillan.

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Rise of the Neo-Cals

Vol. 4, No. 3 (Winter 2006)

Judd Birdsall Friday, 1 December 2006

Judd Birdsall responds to Walter Russell Mead's Sept./Oct. 2006 Foreign Affairs article, "God's Country?" and critiques Mead's comparison of Calvinism to separationist fundamentalism. 

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Misadventures in Missions

Vol. 4, No. 1 (Spring 2006)

Judd Birdsall Wednesday, 1 March 2006

A review of Serving with Eyes Wide Open: Doing Short-term Missions with Cultural Intelligence, by David Livermore.  

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Divine Roots of Human Rights

Vol. 3, No. 3 (Winter 2005)

Judd Birdsall Thursday, 1 December 2005

A review of Does Human Rights Need God?, edited by Elizabeth M. Bucar and Barbra Barnett. 

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