Our fall books issue includes annotated lists of top titles on the book of Job, atonement and children's ministry.
Our fall books issue includes the following annotated lists of top new titles: New Testament, practical theology and world Christianity/American religion.
Our fall books issue's reviews include Walter Brueggemann on Peter Ochs, Robert Bellah on Parker Palmer, Shirley Showalter on Leymah Gbowee and others.
I've been savoring Hemingway's short stories. He was a religious seeker if not some kind of believer.
The use of clean energy sources is growing, but unless those sources become cheaper and more efficient, they won't put a dent in the rise in carbon emissions.
The pastor was prepared for questions about the Transfiguration. Instead, one first grader asked, "what does 'obviously' mean?"
It's not primarily the financially shady elements that make me ambivalent about my favorite sport. It's the sometimes dangerous levels of violence.
World Christianity & American religion
An annotated list of top new titles.
Practical theology
An annotated list of top new titles.
New Testament
An annotated list by Beverly Roberts Gaventa.
The book of Job
An annotated list of top titles on the book of Job.
Atonement
An annotated list of top titles on atonement.
Children’s ministry
An annotated list of top titles on children's ministry.
Sarah’s Key
Sarah's Key is culled from a popular novel (by Tatiana de Rosnay) set during the Holocaust and the Nazi occupation of France. The main character, an American magazine writer (Kristin Scott Thomas) living in Paris, discovers that her husband's family acquired their home after the Jews who once lived there were sent to an abandoned stadium, where they endured three hellish days before the Nazis transported them to the camps.
The Help
In The Help, set during the civil rights era, an aspiring journalist decides to write a book about the African-American domestics in the small Mississippi town where she grew up. The movie, adapted by Tate Taylor from Kathryn Stockett's best seller, is a glossy Hollywood potboiler that uses a serious theme and historical context as cover.
Night of Hunters, by Tori Amos
While it's hard to imagine many pop artists signing up to write a song cycle based on the history of classical music, for Amos—whom Deutsche Grammophon approached with this idea—the project seems almost inevitable.
4x4, by Works Progress Administration
Works Progress Administration is a loose collective of a supergroup, primarily a collaboration between Glen Phillips and Sean Watkins.
We Are Rising, by Son Lux
Earlier this year, NPR's All Songs Considered solicited Ryan Lott, aka Son Lux, for an experiment: could he write and record an album in one month? Lott agreed.
Washington, D.C., September 22 (ENInews)--The 21 September release of U.S. hikers Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal from an Iranian prison "affirms the importance of the role of religious dialogue and its end product in this case, public diplomacy, as we seek ways to define common ground between our two countries," said Episcopal Diocese of Washington Bishop John Chane, who returned from a weeklong visit to Iran on 19 September.