Features
Belonging or not: My life as a nonjoiner
Illness as hermitage: How Parkinsons became my spiritual practice
Soil and soul: Our Protestant agrarian past
Voices
Samuel Wells
Walking toward the storm
Jesus went slowly, purposefully into the eye of the storm. Only through the storm would he find what he was looking for.
Carol Howard Merritt
Soup-kitchen church
One day, a soup-kitchen guest named what was happening: church, a worshiping community distinct from the larger congregation.
Books
A Philosophical Walking Tour with C. S. Lewis, by Stewart Goetz
Stewart Goetz’s book is provocative and carefully argued. But I am puzzled as to why the ordinary reader of C. S. Lewis would be worried about the road not taken.
Delight in preaching
My sixth-grade sex ed teacher held up a worksheet and apologized: “I know this is sort of unromantic.” Books on preaching can leave us similarly cold.
Cancer and good news
Todd Billings weaves his struggle with a rare form of blood cancer together with probing biblical and theological reflection.
Between Magisterium and Marketplace, by Robert C. Saler
Robert Saler’s two main concerns are theological authorship and how we conceive of the church. The two have an unsettled relationship.