Features
What’s in a promise? Living by covenant, not contract
Searching for a church: Life on the ecclesiastical frontier
Safety Not Guaranteed
Perpetual shalom: Elisha's gift to Naaman
Journey of light: LA’s Our Lady of the Angels
Dark Horse
Voices
Philip Jenkins
Globalization circa 1578
If one moment symbolizes the unification of the continents, it might be the creation of the diocese of Manila—as a suffragan see of Mexico City.
Carol Zaleski
Theology face down
Rites that include prostration make a striking impression. It's not often that one sees a fellow human in an act of total self-surrender.
Books
Martin Luther’s Anti-Semitism, by Eric W. Gritsch
Purgatory, by Jerry L. Walls
Can Protestants believe in purgatory? Should they? Might this enhance ecumenical relations with Catholics? Jerry Walls's answer to each question is yes.
Mad farmer?
Joel Salatin's new book offers a full banquet of opinions, prescriptions and rants. How does the man find time to farm?
The Theology of Jonathan Edwards, by Michael J. McClymond and Gerald R. McDermott
Michael McClymond and Gerald McDermott's remarkable book will undoubtedly become the standard scholarly introduction to Jonathan Edwards's theology.