Features
A friend in Jesus? Faith is not a personal relationship: Faith is not a personal relationship
Teatime with my demons: Why I welcome them
Hundred More Years, by Francesca Battistelli
The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964, by Bob Dylan
Faith forming faith: Learning from new Christians
A Better Life
This Is Only a Test, by Smoking Popes
Kaivama, by Kaivama
Mixed motives: Why people join a church
Other Doors, by Klang, and Aerial Age, by Vox Arcana
In a formidable jazz town like Chicago, musicians who populate the club scene one night grace the world's concert stages the next. Two new projects feature three of the city's best: drummer/percussionist Tim Daisy, clarinetist James Falzone and cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm.
The Secret Sisters, by The Secret Sisters
Yesterday’s language: The new words of the Catholic mass
Voices
Philip Jenkins
Which Bible, whose canon?
When documentaries explore Christianity, they have little
difficulty finding diverse manifestations of faith and practice. A global survey also reveals a surprising diversity when it comes to the content of the Bible.
Thomas G. Long
Why sermons bore us
Much of the snickering about boring sermons comes not
because we expect so little but because we have hoped for so much. A hunger persists for a word from the
Lord—without which we are left to our boring selves.
Books
The Christian Imagination, by Willie James Jennings
Dry country
If ever the phrase "unintended consequences" applied to a situation, it
does to the epic story of the 18th Amendment and its undoing by the 21st.