Features
The most beautiful boat
Considering the heavens: Astronomer Guy Consolmagno
Cosmos from nothing? Questions at the edge of science
When I was voiceless: How laypeople stepped in
Luminous at the end: My sister's last 40 days
Voices
Stephanie Paulsell
Looking together
In To the Lighthouse, two people who don't get along find themselves looking at a bowl of fruit. "Looking together," writes Woolf, "united them."
Philip Jenkins
New churches, old Europe
European churches are currently engaged in an architectural culture war. This is startling given how weak the churches themselves have become.
Books
Running to the Fire, by Tim Bascom
The Collected Sermons of Walter Brueggemann, Volume Two, by Walter Brueggemann
Shaping Public Theology, by Max L. Stackhouse
The essays in this volume provide an accessible and comprehensive introduction to Max Stackhouse's thought, and they raise provocative questions about how we are constructing public theology today.
Eager to Love, by Richard Rohr, and When Saint Francis Saved the Church, by Jon M. Sweeney
Richard Rohr and Jon Sweeney, authors of two new books on St. Francis, would be united in their advice to us: forget the statue with the birds.
The price of peace
As Lawrence Wright nicely chronicles, Jimmy Carter faced a daunting task at Camp David in 1978. Carter, Menachem Begin, and Anwar el-Sadat each had much at stake.