Books

The delight I felt while reading this book needs further interrogation, because its stories deal with troublesome subjects.

This collection offers a rich range of life-giving words from a beloved theologian-novelist-preacher-speaker-essayist and encourager.

Bacevich provides another case of the fraught dream of managing history that Reinhold Niebuhr critiqued.

Baylor transformed itself from a regional Baptist teaching institution into an internationally recognized Protestant research university—but not without scandal.

Nature reveals itself as ruptured, as already profaned. To rest into a landscape is to be drawn into an adulterated history.

Faith is formed in us by the Spirit and the life of the church. It renews our elemental confidence and creates our disposition toward the world.

Nineteenth-century agrarians believed that community is more important than the individual and solidarity is more important than profit.

All living things are touched by divine grace—and caught up together in movement toward union with God.

The whole church needs to encounter the courage and truthfulness of the fact that God created us good, to love and be loved.

18th-century colonists drank beer with breakfast and continued throughout the day, with average consumption twice as high as today’s.

Canadian pastor Brian Arthur Brown presents the sacred scriptures of four Eastern faith traditions alongside critical essays about the texts.

According to some Mormon traditions, God and Jesus have made babies—God with the Heavenly Mother, and Jesus with one of his wives.

Belief in the incarnation places suffering bodies within the realm of Christian responsibility.

Far from being meaningless slights with minimal harm, microagressions intrude on the spiritual lives of those who are already marginalized and oppressed.

Even in the jagged edges of life, God’s glory shines. And we are the cultivators of this glory.

Much of what Christianity has long been saying about the cross of Christ is problematic. So what is to be done about it?

There’s some good news amid the gloom of global terrorism—namely, the little-known world of wasatiyya, or centrist, Islam.

Honest and harrowing, this spiritual autobiography testifies to God’s persuasive presence in a life that bears family legacies of slavery, alcoholism, abuse, and mental illness.

Oord’s kenosis model is a compelling answer to the problem of evil—one that draws on scripture, theology, philosophy, and science.

The physical reality of her son, the very tangible way that he is a part of her, will not go away. He is with her everywhere she goes.