Features
Sweet harvest: Notes from the farm
A living question mark: Protestants and Jews after Nostra Aetate
Song: Essays by readers
Naming the shadows: My visit to Lbeck
Voices
Carol Zaleski
The face of Everyhuman
As a child, I liked to survey strangers about what it means to be human. Brandon Stanton has created a fully realized version of what I was doing.
Philip Jenkins
Reconcilers in Madagascar
Search online for Madagascar and you get mostly references to animated films about animals. Dig deeper and you'll find a still more amazing true story.
Books
Strangers No More, by Richard Alba and Nancy Foner
The strangers of Richard Alba and Nancy Foner's title are mainly low-status immigrants and their children. The timeliness of their book is indisputable.
Working-class Christians
According to Heath Carter, working people have been some of Christianity's most important theological innovators.
Running to the Fire, by Tim Bascom
Tim Bascom experienced a revolution through a teenager's sensibility. But despite the great material this provides, his memoir has a plodding feel.
Do No Harm, by Henry Marsh
Reading about Henry Marsh’s vocation to neurosurgery, I thought about my own calling as a minister. I was startled by his depiction of detachment from patients.
Saved by Islam?
Submission is billed as a cautionary tale about Islam's threat to Europe. In fact it's more of an introspective tract on the West's ambivalence about survival.