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Bailey’s Book Awards: Favorite Reads from 2024

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Twenty Twenty Three: Year-end review & reflections

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Bailey’s Book Awards: Favorite Reads from 2023

This is the week that various outlets publish lists of the "best books of the year," the "books most likely to shape life, thought, and culture.” I always feel for the authors whose books didn't even make the shortlist, as well for those who have…

Justin BaileyDecember 8, 2023

Articles & Essays Confessional Short Articles

In gratitude for Tim Keller (1950-2023)

Tim Keller passed away on Friday, May 19, 2023. I cried when I learned about it. This is my tribute, in gratitude for his ministry. I first heard about Tim Keller about 20 years ago, during my first year in seminary. To contextualize the connection,…

Justin BaileyMay 20, 2023

Confessional

Twenty Twenty Two: Year-end review & reflections

And just like that we come to the end of another calendar year. Here are some snapshots, highlights, and reflections from the year of teaching, scholarship, ministry, and family life. Teaching at Dordt I taught five courses this year: Biblical Foundations, Aesthetics, Ethics, Leadership &…

Justin BaileyDecember 16, 2022

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Bailey’s Book Awards: Favorite Reads from 2022

This is the week where people and places publish their list of the best books, "the books most likely to shape life, thought, and culture," as one list puts it. Despite having no reasonable expectation to be considered, it still bothers me way more than…

Justin BaileyDecember 14, 2022

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Summer Report: Where I’ve been…

A baseball game (White Sox vs Twins) with my friend Matt - great seats! One of the very best things about working in higher education is getting to follow the rhythms of the academic calendar. In between the spring and fall semester is this three…

Justin BaileyAugust 12, 2022

Confessional

Twenty Twenty One: Year-end reflections

I've decided to try to take the last two weeks of the year off from my to do lists – and hopefully away from the Internet as much as possible – so I'm writing my year end reflections a bit early. Here are some snapshots,…

Justin BaileyDecember 17, 2021

Book Reviews Books

Surviving Secular Apocalypse: A “How-To” Book for the End of the World

Title: How to Survive the Apocalypse: Zombies, Cylons, Faith, and Politics at the End of the WorldAuthor: Robert Joustra and Alissa WilkinsonPublisher: EerdmansPublish Date: May 7, 2016Paperback: 208 pagesISBN: 978-0802872715 September 23, 2017, has come and gone, and we are still here. This despite the recent well-publicized yet widely…

Justin BaileyJanuary 2, 2018

Old Testament OT Narrative Ruth Sermons

Redemption – Ruth 3

Although the Bible is a grand story of how God brings healing to all of creation, it is also grounded in the gritty particularities of real times and places, and in the lives of real people. God does not bring antiseptic salvation separated from the…

Justin BaileyMay 20, 2017

Favorite Sermons Old Testament OT Narrative Ruth Sermons

Bitterness and Blessing – Ruth 1

The story of Ruth is a story of return, reversal, and renewal, of blessing that comes through bitterness, of unexpected kindness and unreserved loyalty. It teaches us that even in the times of emptiness, when prayers seem to fall lifeless to the ground, when it…

Justin BaileyMay 6, 2017

Gospel of Luke New Testament Old Testament OT Poetry Sermons

If Someone Dies, Will They Live Again? – Job 14, Luke 24

The anguish in the question is real. In modern times we are prone to look at earlier eras and think, you know those pre-modern people could believe anything. But the reality and finality of death has always haunted human consciousness. Preached in Memorial Park in…

Justin BaileyApril 16, 2017

Twenty Twenty Four: Year-end review & reflections