Features
Israel’s dreams and nightmares: Author Yossi Klein Halevi
China’s gospel valley: Churches thrive among the Lisu people
The mosque next door: Getting to know our Muslim neighbors
United in suffering: Martyrdom as Christian vocation
What Google doesn’t know: Lessons from the Ashley Madison hack
Voices
Stephanie Paulsell
Words that count
A student I taught with recalls licking honey from Hebrew letters as a child. My own memories of religious education are less auspicious.
Philip Jenkins
The Adventist adaptation
In the 1950s, the Adventists celebrated the milestone of a million adherents, mostly in the U.S. Now they have 18 million, mostly elsewhere.
Books
Glass Ceilings and Dirt Floors, by Christine Firer Hinze
How to Read the Bible, by Harvey Cox
For the Bible to belong not only to the church or the academy but to the people, a guidebook is needed. Harvey Cox provides one.
White space, black lives
After I received the request to review Kelly Brown Douglas's book, I kept seeing her main thesis displayed in the news.
Nine Essential Things I’ve Learned about Life, by Harold S. Kushner
Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Ta-Nehisi Coates is an atheist. But perhaps his atheism is precisely the kind that Christians in America need.
Afterwar, by Nancy Sherman
Nancy Sherman's message is clear: society must understand the totality of human experiences of war, including their moral dimensions.