A. N. Wilson's literary biography aims to bridge the gap between the Commedia and nonspecialists who, allegedly abandoned by the professionals, are like sheep without a shepherd.
My great-grandfather was lynched. It was not a big affair in the town square; it happened on a dusty southern road. But its imprint and the communal denial in the small southern town that is our homeland have had lasting reverberations for generations of my family.
In this splendid book Belden Lane has made a double contribution—to the
reordering of our perspectives on creation and to our understanding of
the Reformed tradition as a contributor to this reordering.
Mention of Saudi Arabia conjures images of a fundamentalist kingdom where the government prohibits women from driving and forbids non-Muslims from holding religious services. The roots of the country's puritanical code go back several centuries.
Two years before he died, Reinhold Niebuhr published one of his best-known articles. But he didn't write "The King's Chapel and the King's Court" alone.
In her just-published book See Me Naked: Stories of Sexual Exile in American Christianity (Beacon), Century correspondent Amy Frykholm recounts the stories of nine individuals who have struggled to make sense of the relationship between their sexuality and religious faith. The stories involve anorexia, sex addiction and prostitution, and they explore the theological framework for a conversation about sex and faith that isn't about who is "doing it right."
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