Books
The body in question
The two best writers on American ways of death, burial and grieving have given us our best book on funerals.
Uncollected Poems, by R. S. Thomas; edited by Jason Walford Davies and Tony Brown
Welsh poet and priest R. S. Thomas had a creative energy that spanned the second half of the 20th century.
Bonhoeffer the Assassin? by Mark Thiessen Nation, Anthony G. Siegrist and Daniel P. Umbel
All Bonhoeffer scholarship recognizes his advocacy for nonviolence. Some goes farther, arguing that this was an overriding commitment that trumped all others.
Pastor Francis
Chesterton wrote that what St. Benedict stored, St. Francis scattered. It was a prophetic phrase.
Fall books: Reviews
Our fall books issue's reviews include Greg Carey on Reza Aslan, Katherine Willis Pershey on Debbie Blue, Philip Jenkins on Diarmaid MacCulloch and more.
Essential books: Fall books
Our fall books issue includes annotated lists of essential titles on Revelation, evangelism and theodicy.
Flawed and fallen folk
"Fiction wasn't that big a leap for me," says Will Willimon. "We preachers are all 'artists' in the same sense that the gospel writers were."
Take & read: Fall books
Our fall books issue includes annotated lists of new titles in New Testament, practical theology and global Christianity/American religious history.
