Features
Con artists at the door: The ministry of being lied to
Obama and the Arab Spring: Historian Juan Cole
My wandering mind: A pastor goes to yoga
Is yoga religious? Spiritual roots of a physical practice: Spiritual roots of a physical practice
Incendies: Directed by Denis Villeneuve
The bishop’s dashboard: William Willimon’s experiment in accountability
Voices
Philip Jenkins
South African "Zionists"
The Zion Christian Church—an African-initiated church that's powerful in South Africa—traces its origins to John Alexander Dowie, a 19th-century Scottish spiritual entrepeneur who founded the city Zion, Illinois.
Carol Zaleski
C. S. Lewis’s Aeneid
For C.S. Lewis, Virgil prepared the way for all subsequent Christian epics by changing the subject from the adolescent theme
of heroism to the adult theme of vocation.
Books
In Ishmael’s House, by Martin Gilbert
After disaster
Rebecca Solnit’s thesis is that paradise can arise from hell. If I am more pessimistic, perhaps that is due to accounts of natural disaster such as Emma Larkin's in her new book.
Nuns Behaving Badly, by Craig A. Monson
To Make the Earth Whole, by Marc Gopin
Opening to God, Life with God, Lectio Matters and Lectio Divina
Year of Plenty, by Craig L. Goodwin
Faith of the founders
John Fea
brings humility, patience and objectivity to controversial questions of religion and the founding era of
American history. His book is a model of scholarly restraint.