Features
Asset management: How a building can serve a churchs mission
A place for Camille: Blessings from a special-needs child
Between two worlds: Writer Claire Hajaj
A long obedience: On marriage and other covenants
Voices
Carol Zaleski
A letter to Thomas Merton
It’s been 100 years since your birth and almost 75 since you entered the abbey. You died with your story unfinished.
Philip Jenkins
Christians in slavery
Many scholars have traced the intra-Christian conflicts over slavery. Less noticed are the situations in which Christians were themselves enslaved.
Books
The Sixth Extinction, by Elizabeth Kolbert
For Elizabeth Kolbert, the human story reads like a Greek tragedy. Near the end, we realize too late that we brought about our own demise.
Visions of Amen, by Stephen Schloesser
Stephen Schloesser considers Olivier Messiaen and his music through the lens of a broad-based cultural history. This is fitting and welcome.
The world slavery made
Edward Baptist so powerfully captures the pain and tragedy of plantation slavery that I had to force myself to turn each page.
Faith Speaking Understanding, by Kevin J. Vanhoozer
Kevin Vanhoozer demonstrates that Christian thought is a more engaging, embodied affair than much that passes for thinking these days.
Mercy, by Walter Kasper
Walter Kasper contends that mercy is one of those words that we use without really grasping its profundity.