Features
From fear to calm: Spiritual direction on stormy waters
Wilderness venture: Toward a more honest sermon
Ways to be Lutheran: New churches experiment with polity
A time to split? Covenant and schism in the UMC
Missing in Mexico: The search for Central American migrants
Voices
Ryan McAnnally-Linz
Life exam
In a culture that finds repentance unintelligible, impractical, or unnecessary, we are called to witness to its intelligibility, beauty, and importance.
Miroslav Volf
Life exam
In a culture that finds repentance unintelligible, impractical, or unnecessary, we are called to witness to its intelligibility, beauty, and importance.
Philip Jenkins
Economic boom in Africa
I once presented Africa as a region of extreme poverty, but we now have to take account of economic development. We can only begin to outline the religious consequences.
Books
Invasion of the Dead, by Brian K. Blount
Brian Blount mounts a sweeping plea for bold preaching about the God who invades and routes death. Resurrection, he argues, transforms all of us “living dead” into witnesses.
Reformed and antimodern
Some classic works on the origins of modernity give pride of place to Calvinism. D. G. Hart will have none of it.
The Gospel of God’s Reign, by Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt
Preaching in Hitler’s Shadow, edited by Dean G. Stroud
In Defence of War, by Nigel Biggar
Nigel Biggar thinks that Western Christians are willfully ignoring that soldiers and military action are essential to social peace and justice.