Features
Adopt a settlement: Christian Zionists and the West Bank
Put away: Solitary confinement
Little Boots
How we’re poisoning our children: An interview with ecologist Sandra Steingraber
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Holy listening: The spiritual direction movement
Relative poverty: The indignity of gross inequality
Voices
Philip Jenkins
The three days of Timkat
For many early Christians, only at the moment of Jesus' baptism was he suddenly overwhelmed by the power of divinity.
Carol Zaleski
Saved by Tintin
One has only to look at Tintin, his round face animated by the simplest imaginable features, to know that he is the ultimate Boy Scout.
Books
Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Letters and Papers from Prison, by Martin E. Marty
Though some of his admirers may find it difficult to believe now,
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was not widely known in the years immediately
following World War II, save perhaps as one of a band of courageous
pastors and theologians in Germany who resisted the Nazi regime of Adolf
Hitler.
What war does to warriors
Karl Marlantes's new book is not fiction, but it develops the idea of his novel Matterhorn: that war provides a
sense of transcendence that can be found nowhere else.
Let’s talk about toxins
It's time for the talk, says Sandra Steingraber: the talk about the pollutants that are
infiltrating our lives and threatening the health of all of us,
especially our children.