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Cover Story in the October 18, 2011 issue

Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Job and His Friends, oil on canvas, 1869.

Our fall books issue includes the following annotated lists of top titles in a few specific subject areas, selected by experts in the field:

Marti J. Steussy on the book of Job

S. Mark Heim on atonement

Karen-Marie Yust on children's ministry

This article appears in the October 18, 2011 issue.

Genesis 3 and Emmanuel Levinas can help us make sense of masked violence.

The school’s replica mold of Martin Luther’s face reminds me that I’m readying the plaster for the tradition that bears his name.

Theological education may be fracturing, but there’s wisdom and beauty in the fragments.

In the last year of his life, Martin Luther King Jr.’s confidence in the politics of progressivism dimmed. Judgment became his refrain.

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