Features
Easter already: Living with the church calendar
The real Depression: The greatest generation needed welfare
Waste not, hunger not: Daily Table sells fresh meals cheap
Love goes to work: Miracles in the midst of dying
Voices
Samuel Wells
Bedrock story
The exiled people of Judah turned to their stories—and found the belief that God would save them as before. Centuries later, Christians did the same.
Carol Howard Merritt
Leading like Lydia
Do women plant churches differently than men? Do they use different methods or a different style?
Books
Philosophy in Seven Sentences, by Douglas Groothuis
Full of emptiness
Emptiness can alternatively mean too little or too much. It is sometimes unclear where emptiness is distinct from excess.
Glimpses of Boko Haram
The history and struggles of the Nigerian movement known as Boko Haram are more complicated than they first appear.
Eight Questions of Faith, by Niles Elliot Goldstein
Do pollsters invent religion?
Do pollsters create what they purport to study? Wuthnow examines the power and limits of polls and surveys on American religion.
Faith makes us human
We wish something would prove beyond doubt that Someone obliged us large-brained, bipedal primates with a breath of consciousness.