Features
Costly hospitality: Learning trust at Rutba House
Out of Syria: Archbishop Cyril Karim
A wealth of lectionaries
What's the text: Alternatives to the common lectionary
Voices
Philip Jenkins
Lusophone evangelism
Portugal no longer sends out missionaries on any scale, but Brazil has taken up that mantle. Worldwide, one in 11 Christians speak Portuguese.
Carol Zaleski
Plain speech
Sometimes it feels like a thick mist has descended on us, distorting communication. But then a face shines through the mist and dispels it.
Books
What W. H. Auden Can Do for You, by Alexander McCall Smith
The body in question
The two best writers on American ways of death, burial and grieving have given us our best book on funerals.
Uncollected Poems, by R. S. Thomas; edited by Jason Walford Davies and Tony Brown
Welsh poet and priest R. S. Thomas had a creative energy that spanned the second half of the 20th century.
Bonhoeffer the Assassin? by Mark Thiessen Nation, Anthony G. Siegrist and Daniel P. Umbel
All Bonhoeffer scholarship recognizes his advocacy for nonviolence. Some goes farther, arguing that this was an overriding commitment that trumped all others.
Pastor Francis
Chesterton wrote that what St. Benedict stored, St. Francis scattered. It was a prophetic phrase.