Features
Seeds and sowers: A congregation confronts a parable
Losing their religion
On a chocolate mission: A socially conscious entrepreneur
My father’s butcher shop: Lessons learned and unlearned
Formative moments: Faith at an early age
The Fighter
Growing Christians: A four-stage catechism
Voices
Philip Jenkins
Losing their religion
Not long ago, European religious cinema thrived. Now, religion typically appears in films only as a problem--and the solution to that problem is usually liberated sexuality.
Thomas G. Long
Expect a whirlwind
Instead of fretting about worship style, perhaps we should be more concerned about scale. For all its extravagance, much worship today seems curiously trivial, inward and downsized.
Books
How should we live?
No one has done more than N.T. Wright to make the broad sweep of the scriptural narrative speak vividly to laypeople--while challenging the academy by pressing profound motifs as far as they can go.
Broken Hearts and New Creations, by James Alison
Twain’s sorrows
Twain wearied of lecture tours and struggled with guilt over his absence when two of his daughters died. In his final years, the public seemed to want Twain himself more than his books.