Features
Cosmic question: God in a world explained by science
Falling into prayer: Bede Griffith's pilgrimage and mine
Dark night of the church: Relearning the essentials
Altar politics: Sharing communion on Election Day
Voices
Philip Jenkins
Saving the Soviets
Sunday Adelaja's story sounds like the start of a bad joke: "Did you hear about the African who tried to start a church in the Soviet Union?"
Stephanie Paulsell
Soul experiments
What are university churches for? Are they nostalgic relics, settings for academic rites, anomalies in uneasy relationship with schools' priorities?
Books
Chaos and continuity
Luminaries praise Paula Fredriksen's Sin as gripping and magnificent. Her book on Augustine was both of these things. This one isn't.
Peter Singer and Christian Ethics, by Charles C. Camosy
Charles Camosy's task is audacious: as a Catholic moral theologian, he thoughtfully engages the work of the controversial and often condemned ethicist Peter Singer.