Features
Painting Pentecost
Listening well: A chaplains vocation
Chicken keepers: Loving and eating animals
Mixed and matched: Challenges of interfaith weddings
Church(y) weddings: When worship is the main event
Blessings all around: When my parishioner got ordained online
Why a church wedding? Truth telling about Christian marriage
Voices
Carol Howard Merritt
Virtual real presence
People are looking to their computers, tablets, and phones for sacred moments. How are churches responding?
M. Craig Barnes
Stubborn hope
Despite bleak forecasts, many of today’s teenagers refuse to buy the marketed temptations to despair and fear. They’ll find a way.
Books
My Promised Land, by Ari Shavit
The Age of Evangelicalism, by Steven P. Miller
Steven Miller positions evangelicalism as the foil for other thinkers, movers, and shakers: it seemed so powerful and ubiquitous that those outside of the tent felt compelled to address it.
Faith in the Public Square, by Rowan Williams
Rowan Williams favors a kind of secularism that requires an honest broker to mediate and manage genuine difference, rather than one that aspires to little more than maximized choice.
American gulag
To Robert Ferguson, Calvinist roots lead European-Americans to see all punishments meted out to humans as righteous. Yet ultimate blame for our prisons is our own.