Features
Memoirs with religious themes: A sampler
Read the main article on the essence of spiritual memoir.
Writing the Christian life: The essence of spiritual memoir
Holding each other loosely: After my wifes brain aneurysm
The church assembled: Why I love denominational gatherings
Building Baltimore: A coalition connects police and community
Voices
Carol Zaleski
Witnesses in the cloud
Critics view genealogy as a kind of ersatz historiography, an individualistic reconstruction of the past. But there is more to family tree building.
Philip Jenkins
Restored pilgrim paths
Over the last generation, the institution of pilgrimage has experienced a startling revival across what we often dismiss as secular Europe.
Books
Post-traumatic texts
David Carr rereads the familiar materials of the Bible in conversation with trauma theory. This opens the way for a fresh and suggestive interpretation.
Inklings of good news
The proliferation of Inklings books is often prompted by Christian triumphalism. Carol and Philip Zaleski have something more interesting to say.
An Anxious Age, by Joseph Bottum
Joseph Bottum contends that the decline of mainline churches has created a moral vacuum that conservative Catholics and evangelicals have been unable to fill.