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A mosaic of story
What if we did asystematic theology?
by Brian Bantum
Living between the Bible’s first and last prayers
Most days I hover somewhere between Adam’s “I was afraid” and John of Patmos’s “Come, Lord Jesus.”
by Timothy Jones
How Arvo Pärt speaks prayer into a secular world
The composer sees his music as an interplay between suffering and consolation, loss and hope.
by Peter C. Bouteneff
Karl Giberson offers a cultural history of the Bible's first human. It's an intriguing and unsettling story.
reviewed by Amy Frykholm
I dreamed of meeting Adam in heaven. He wasn't hard to recognize; he looked like my great-uncle Harold, with the weight of his years melted off.
by Carol Zaleski