Features
What happens when people pray? Anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann
Built on failure: The value of what we cant comprehend
Faith of the senses: Christianity in five objects
False witness: A misguided study guide
Resurrection by inches
Is the church helping? Christians and the conflict in South Sudan
Voices
Stephanie Paulsell
Praying Jane Eyre
My student hasn’t allegorized Jane Eyre as Origen did the Bible. But she wrestles with passages until the text gives her a blessing.
Philip Jenkins
Astonishing Assemblies
Every Sunday, more people attend Assemblies of God churches in the Sao Paulo area than in all the U.S.
Books
Salinger, by David Shields and Shane Salerno
For a large percentage of students, Salinger can still pack a tremendous punch, and he still connects with the spiritual seeker inclinations that are common among university students.
North of Hope, by Shannon Huffman Polson
Paging God, by Wendy Cadge
Wendy Cadge asks, What happens to religion when hospitals, many of them founded by religious groups, are secularized or otherwise constrained to serve patients beyond their founding communities?