Features
Perfume for my father: A lavish gift
Repent and celebrate: The Reformation after 500 years
The mystery of marriage: Secrets of joined lives
Countering the darkness: Fiction writer Ron Rash
Sacred inwardness: Why secularism has no meaning
Voices
Carol Zaleski
Stories of my childhood
All I remember from The Magic Stones is the image of a young man, some stones and blocks, and an experiment revealing the most perfect shape.
Philip Jenkins
Megachurches in Singapore
Christianity is thriving in Singapore. And in this case, most of the usual explanations for Christian expansion in Asia fall flat.
Books
A room to herself
The setup sounds like a medieval soap opera. But Robyn Cadwallader knows far too much about the 13th century to write an anachronistic romance.
Something Rich and Strange, by Ron Rash
Ron Rash’s stories emerge from the Smoky Mountains, where his protagonists often reach for a mystery beyond their own understanding.
American Crucifixion, by Alex Beam
There are no heroes in Alex Beam’s tale of the killing of Mormon founder Joseph Smith.
An Introduction to Design Arguments, by Benjamin C. Jantzen
Many people have an intuition that the natural world shows purpose, order, or providence. Benjamin Jantzen does a marvelous job analyzing the attempts to turn that intuition into arguments.