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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

Books Lists

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

Christian Apologetics: A Comprehensive Case (Book Review)

In his Christian Apologetics, philosopher Douglas Groothuis offers his “magnum opus”, a cumulative case argument for the explanatory power and persuasive truth of the Christian faith. In his own words: “Christianity alone makes the most sense of the things that matter most.” (72) Weighing in…

Justin BaileyMarch 22, 2014

Ministry

Deepening Relationships and Dying to Self: A Dating Interview

(photo credit: John In) I am woefully behind my one-post a week pace, but here's a post to bring me closer to the quota. I recently spoke for a college and young adult retreat, and the pastor followed up with some interview questions for me…

Justin BaileyFebruary 23, 2014

Book Reviews Books

Book Review: When God Talks Back by Tanya Luhrmann

The subtitle of Tanya Luhrmann's When God Talks Back describes the book as an attempt to understand "the American Evangelical Relationship with God". Luhrmann's focus on "relationship with God" means that she is not trying to understand evangelicalism as a social-political movement or theological system,…

Justin BaileyFebruary 2, 2014

Confessional Ministry

Fifty Things I Will Miss About Antioch

Today is my last Sunday and my last day as pastor at Antioch Bible Church. The last 7.5 years have been the best of my life. I sat down and made a rather stream-of-consciousness list of 50 things that I will miss about Antioch. More…

Justin BaileyAugust 18, 2013

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Twenty Twenty Four: Year-end review & reflections