Jen Bradbury on effective youth ministry, Sara Maitland on the perils of silence, Will Willimon on interfaith marriage.
Mary Louise Bringle on hymnals and why they matter, Philip Jenkins on the Waco siege, David Hollinger on Elesha Coffman's book about the Century.
Spring books. Richard Lischer on a book's life; Valerie Weaver-Zercher on Amish fiction; eight preachers on what else they read besides commentaries.
Robert Westbrook on "Letter from Birmingham Jail" at 50, Beth Felker Jones on House of Cards, Benjamin J. Dueholm on preaching the saints.
Wendell Berry on abortion and homosexuality, Daniel Schultz on gun control, Suzanne Guthrie on praying at a monastery.
Charles Hefling on atonement, Barbara Melosh on cleaning up a church, Martin Copenhaver on a long pastorate.
Sarah Hinlicky Wilson on children and our R-rated Bible, Ted Smith on making Lent difficult, Terra Brockman on the social order of bees.
Theological education issue. Lawrence Wood on online seminary education, Amy Julia Becker on seminaries and disability, Will Willimon on the goal of seminary.
New series on bad situations in ministry, Chloë Starr on theology in China, Amy Frykholm interviews Colleen McDannell.
Bill McKibben on oil-industry divestment, Kyle Childress on the Keystone Pipeline, Gershom Gorenberg on Zionism.
J. B. Stump on God and science, Paula Huston on Bede Griffith and pilgrimage, Mark Schloneger on election-day communion.
Year-end lists of books, music and film; interview with Dennis Sanders; Tom Long on desperate prayers.
Charles Hefling on open communion, Chris Hoke on ministry with inmates, Suzanne Guthrie on meditation and milking.
Allan Rohlfs on constructive conflict, Lillian Daniel on the AAR-SBL gathering and the Hyatt boycott, Amy Frykholm interviews Peter Edelman.
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