A Time to Embrace

Books

Friday, Saturday, Sunday: Literary Meditations on Suffering, Death, and New Life

David S. Cunningham

New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global South

Philip Jenkins

A Time to Embrace: Same-Gender Relationships in Religion, Law, and Politics

William Stacy Johnson

The Way That Leads There: Augustinian Reflections on the Christian Life

Gilbert Meilaender

Tenebrae: Holy Week After the Holocaust

Theresa Sanders

Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church

James K. A. Smith

Howard Thurman: Essential Writings

Luther E. Smith Jr., ed.

Cross Examinations: Readings on the Meaning of the Cross Today

Marit A. Trelstad, ed.

Take and read

May 01, 2007 selected by Amy Plantinga Pauw


Cunningham invites readers to take their own Holy Week pilgrimage through suffering and death to resurrection and the promise of new life. Companions on the way include Shakespeare, T. S. Eliot, Janet Morley and Edward Albee.
Books

A Time to Embrace: Same-Gender Relationships in Religion, Law, and Politics

William Stacy Johnson

Same-sex unions

May 01, 2007 reviewed by Paul G. Crowley
As a Jesuit theologian working in a university setting, I am occasionally asked to discuss difficult questions with people charged with adjudicating them.