Features
A lever for change: Telling the congregation’s story
The call goes on: Dicipleship and aging
Pain, prayer, poetry: An interview with Christian Wiman
Easter Sunday, April 24, 2011: Acts 10:34-43; Colossians 3:1-4; John 20:1-18
Global engagement
Cultural recovery in Haiti: Text and photographs by Gary G. Yerkey
Anger and longing
No common good?
Of Gods and Men
Although the French film Of Gods and Men is set in Algeria in 1996, it could just as easily be set in any Middle Eastern or African country that is struggling with the rise of Islamic extremism. You can see the film playing out in any number of dangerous locales over the centuries—anywhere where people of Christian, Muslim or another faith have to make difficult choices that involve their beliefs in a higher power.
Voices
Barbara Brown Taylor
And Jesus sang
After Jesus shared his last supper with his friends, they sang a hymn together. There is every reason to believe it was the Hallel, Psalms 113 through 118. How have I missed this before?
Philip Jenkins
Resurrected cathedrals
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the
persecuted Orthodox Church began its resurrection. Nothing better illustrates this revival than the restoration of the cathedrals and churches.
Books
India Calling, by Anand Giridharadas
Fictional pastors
Douglas Alan Walrath's astute survey of American novels about clergy is essential reading for budding pastors—as well as
for anybody who wants to understand why we American
clergy are the way we are.