Features
My Lenten fast: Giving up anxiety
An elephant in the room? How meeting agendas get hijacked: How meeting agendas get hijacked
Battle scars: Veterans turn to clergy for counseling
The new black theology: Retrieving ancient sources to challenge racism
The Iron Lady
No need for church: Ministry with young adults in flux
The Interrupters: Directed by Steve James
Voices
M. Craig Barnes
The good sheepdog
I am cherished, and called by the Shepherd to serve the flock. But I can save no one.
Books
The Cross and the Lynching Tree, by James H. Cone
Ravished by Beauty, by Belden C. Lane
In this splendid book Belden Lane has made a double contribution—to the
reordering of our perspectives on creation and to our understanding of
the Reformed tradition as a contributor to this reordering.
A taste for Dante
A. N. Wilson's literary biography aims to bridge the gap between the Commedia and nonspecialists who, allegedly abandoned by the professionals, are like sheep without a shepherd.
Black and white thinking
In Redeeming Mulatto, Brian Bantum
addresses the American tendency to understand race relations in binary terms.