Features
Limits of welcome: The Sunday I told someone to leave
Ready for communion: Living in holy space
Pulp inequality: How popular culture exhibits the class divide
Heirloom apple trees: Notes from the farm
Death without killing: The inhumanity of life without parole
Voices
M. Craig Barnes
Revival without tents
I can still smell the wet canvas and sawdust of my father's revivals. He believed that any self-respecting revival was held in a tent.
Carol Howard Merritt
Misfits in the suburbs
"Why go to the city?" asked one of Bec Cranford-Smith's seminary professors. "There are enough new churches there."
Books
One story, three ways
Robert Gregg traces five scriptural stories as they were later understood by commentators—Jewish, Christian, and Muslim.
Saving the Original Sinner, by Karl W. Giberson
Karl Giberson offers a cultural history of the Bible's first human. It's an intriguing and unsettling story.
Biblical Prophecy, by Ellen F. Davis
Ellen Davis is full of surprises. Some are delightful, others raise questions for further study, and still others throw up stumbling blocks.