Trauma survivors are in your congregation. How will you help them heal?
Christy Gunter Sim, a trauma expert and domestic violence survivor, offers case studies for church leaders.
Books
Vincent van Gogh, Still Life With French Novels and Rose, oil on canvas, 1887.
A DNA test and its aftermath
Even as a child, Dani Shapiro wondered whether she belonged in her family.
The “Christian century” and the people who lived it
Brian Stanley pulls off a readable, one-volume history of 20th-century Christianity.
Ethical hacks for managing our adolescent technologies
Kate Ott looks at the moral implications of digital language.
The spirit of Madeleine L’Engle
Sarah Arthur captures the beloved Christian author’s appeal.
The emergence of belief—and unbelief
Ethan Shagan chronicles the expansion of these concepts since the Middle Ages.
Unrigging the human game
We need to stop playing to win, says Bill McKibben, and start playing to keep the game going.
Catherine Keller’s political theology for the end of the world
Our era’s poet theologian begins by retranslating Paul: “the remaining time is contracted” (1 Cor. 7:29).
A novel about the chasms between people
Can we cross them? Is it worth it?
Sacred impulse, poetic form
For Sofia Starnes, poetry is the language of faith.
The anguish and ecstasy of the ark’s matriarch
Sarah Blake’s surrealist novel about Naamah—Noah’s wife—is mesmerizing.
Jesus’ earliest followers were Jewish, too
Paula Fredriksen challenges popular assumptions about the first generation of Christians.
10 writers respond.
A prodigal son story on the island of Trinidad
Claire Adam’s debut novel is animated by a complicated landscape of family.
Serene Jones’s memoir poses as many theological questions as answers
Theology is story, and Jones is a rousing storyteller.
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