Being a pastor is bad for your health. The Clergy Health Initiative aims to study this problem and begin to correct it.
I entered divinity school assuming that Christians ought to believe something is seriously wrong with the world. But I also loved the world.
When the church has nothing more to say than what could be said in a political speech, the church has surely lost its voice.
Are faith and doubt opposites? Thérèse of Lisieux and Virginia Woolf are part of the same history.
The vast majority of Africa's christians belong to familiar, mainstream denominations. But scholars give more attention to the minority.
Pinterest and porn
The temptation of Pinterest is in the part of it that is trite, banal and predictable. But that's not all there is to the site's appeal.
The Book of Mormon Girl, by Joanna Brooks
When people who don’t know a lot about American Christianity hear that I am Mennonite, they sometimes ask if it’s the same as being Mormon. No, I say, and add a stock reply: other than starting with the same letter of the alphabet and being inscrutable to outsiders, the groups are quite different. After reading Joanna Brooks’s memoir The Book of Mormon Girl, I will no longer answer with such alacrity.
Jesus in black and white
The Color of Christ confronts the complicated history of the Christ image and racial politics in the United States. Edward Blum and Paul Harvey's ambitious—some might say audacious—aim is to track “the creating and exercise of racial and religious power through the images of Jesus and how that power has been experienced by everyday people.”
And God Spoke to Abraham, by Fleming Rutledge
Fleming Rutledge is the most interesting preacher today working the fault line between the mainline churches and evangelicalism. Throughout this remarkable collection of Old Testament sermons she calls for mainliners and evangelicals to realize their common identity in Christ for the sake of our mutual mission in the world.
