Books
When theology fails
After Ruth Everhart was raped, she had to rebuild her beliefs about God’s will.
Good church, bad church
When our evangelism focuses on apologies instead of God’s grace, we're burying the lede.
Oscar Romero's wisdom for today
The Salvadoran archbishop was thoroughly of his own time. But his words speak to us too.
Poet in black?
Johnny Cash was a lot of things. Was he a literary writer?
The grace of real and virtual presence
Theologian Deanna Thompson used to criticize the pervasive technological creep overtaking our lives. Then she was diagnosed with cancer.
Practical wisdom from the business world
Heather Bradley and Miriam Bamberger Grogan offer a hard-working playbook for addressing ministerial overload.
Inventing a voice for Louis Till
John Edgar Wideman counters the official record of Emmett Till’s father with a more empathetic version.
Not your kindergartener’s coloring book
Should I let my child color pictures of Jesus on the cross?
The yin and yang of being small
Children have unique needs for both freedom and protection.
Poetry ex nihilo
Anya Silver’s imaginative poems speak from nothingness into new creation.
A more intimate portrait of Bonhoeffer
Diane Reynolds’s book would be worth its price for its insistence on noticing the women at every turn in Bonhoeffer’s life.
Conversations with the other pope
Benedict XVI’s book is both unusual and important. Mostly because it never should have been written.
A bright future for (some) seminaries
If theological education’s prospects look dim, we’re defining it too narrowly.
Stories that leave us with questions
In Dana Johnson's new collection, nothing is easy.
When black women lead
A century before Alicia Garza came Anna Arnold Hedgeman, Violet Johnson, and Florence Spearing Randolph.
Living in the gray
A hospice chaplain writes about facing pain without flinching.
Distracted by our own devices
I’ve become the sort of person who checks her phone constantly. I did not have to go this way.
Holiness in every drop
Judith Schwartz and Michael E. Webber each call attention to the challenges facing the water over which the Spirit broods.
Elegies without consolation
An anthology of poetry mourning the demise of the Church of England
A rabbi’s memoir of making a family
Anyone with a complicated life and family—all of us—will find a home in Susan Silverman’s story.