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Not every publication gets to use the name ‘Harvard’ in their masthead. It’s a perk that comes with the territory and banks on the accumulated legacy of many generations of excellence. (more…)

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This 47-year-old father of two teenage guys is happy that my guys have Breakaway.

This Focus on the Family ‘magazine for teen guys’ covers topics like spirituality, sports, music, gaming, maintaining sexual purity, all from a Christian worldview. (more…)

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For the very sensitive, the sages’ reflections on the paradigmatic foreign woman make for tough reading.

‘It just goes to show you’—the vocabulary of offended morality leaps too easily to the lips—’how bigoted, sexist, and self-excusing religious men can be.’ (more…)

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BoardSource habitually produces short works for non-profit leaders that–once read–leave one wondering how we muddled through without knowing about this resource. This reviewer wonders how they keep up the pace. (more…)

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For about 150 pages, author John Grogan tells rambling dog stories about his Labrador named Marley, leaving his reader to wonder what all the fuss is about with this best-selling book. (more…)

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David Seccombe is the principal of Capetown’s highly regarded George Whitfield College and a New Testament scholar of sturdy reputation. This monumental treatment of Jesus and the kingdom he claimed both to introduce and to rule is able, insightful, faithful, and refreshing. It is a pity to be obligated to recognize that most Jesus scholarship–especially its popular manifestation–falls short of what Seccombe has produced in this book with regard to all four of those cardinal virtues. (more…)

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Bishop George McKinney addresses the African-American community via a powerful and generative metaphor: just as literal slave masters once held his people in servitude in this country (the United States of America), so modern slave masters who look nothing like the ancient institution that counted human beings as property seek to reduce black Americans to a kind of bondage that is capable of just as much destructive force. (more…)

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If Men’s Health—a main competitor of the magazine here under review—strikes you as pandering to the average guy’s baser instincts, you’ll want to check out Men’s Journal. (more…)

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As Condé Nast’s chief rival in the affluent traveler sector of the glossy magazine industry, Travel & Leisure comports itself admirably. For those of us who have not yet considered buying a private jet, such affluent travel is more a spectator sport. Interesting, occasionally worth yelling about, but not something we’d put on our kit and run out on the floor to do for ourselves. (more…)

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Look, maybe you could make highlight films as good as NFL Films does if you had the same tools. (more…)

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