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A God in the House, edited by Ilya Kaminsky and Katherine Towler
A striking and apt image enhances the cover of this new collection of interviews with 19 leading American poets....
American Dervish, by Ayad Akhtar
This debut novel features ten-year-old Hayat Shah, a first-generation Pakistani American, who is attempting to find his identity as a Muslim....
The Story of Beautiful Girl, by Rachel Simon
These days it’s a rare novel that addresses disturbing social issues without flinching and treats religious faith as a force for good, without denying the complexity of either....
Our first family
If anything remains sacred in our culture, it’s the family. Yet Jesus challenged the family’s ultimacy.
Historians race clock to collect Holocaust survivor stories
JERUSALEM (RNS) Zvi Shefel recalled the day the German army arrived at his Polish town of Slonim in the summer of 1942....
SBC to probe Land’s remarks on Trayvon Martin
Southern Baptist leaders will investigate whether their top ethicist and public policy director plagiarized racially charged remarks about the Trayvon Martin case that many say set back the denomin...
Where do you read the Bible?
This is a question that would have seemed weird to me not too long ago. However, now I see it as one loaded with (potential) theological significance....
In which the GOP senators act like public servants
For the last couple years, congressional Republicans have often acted as if the only point of governing is to do less of it. Not so with the Senate minority leadership this week.
Friday digest
New today from the Century: The family doesn't come first, where to read the Bible, more.
Tank Full of Blues, by Dion
Dion, a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, might have little left to prove. But the devout Catholic singer-songwriter turns in a feisty effort on this blues disc....
Murder-suicide desperation prompts soul-searching in Oregon
c. 2012 Religion News Service PORTLAND, Ore. (RNS) For the past few years, Terry Daniel Sr. and Lisa Haynes used good cheer to camouflage their deteriorating health and dwindling finances....
Why Ross Douthat thinks we're 'a nation of heretics'
c. 2012 Religion News Service (RNS) New York Times columnist Ross Douthat doesn't mince words in his new book Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics....