Elaine Pagels’s lifelong search for the sacred
Pagels vividly recounts her spiritual experiences. But she won’t let herself be bound by any tradition.
Faith
The emergence of belief—and unbelief
Ethan Shagan chronicles the expansion of these concepts since the Middle Ages.
The Christian virtues and the art of dying
9 values that can shape the end of life in a cruciform way
Christian Wiman’s stubborn, slippery faith
We need faith, Wiman suggests, because poetry isn't enough.
Anya saw the world in colors.
We don't need arguments from the pulpit. We need living water.
Take & read: New books in Old Testament
Does biblical scholarship still matter for the life of faith?
Christian Wiman and the poetry of joy
In this anthology of poems selected by Wiman, joy comes in modest and unlikely guise.
The fear loop
In our current crisis, fear is both cause and consequence.
The rise and fall of Emmanuel Carrère’s faith
The Kingdom is a mess, but it refuses to be wholly dismissed.
Does humility require doubt?
Mark Stenberg takes aim at Christian certainty. I'm not certain that's our problem.
"Belief is not the 'substance of things hoped for.' Faith is."
Revelation, by Dennis Covington
Dennis Covington is famous for seeking faith in extreme places. Twenty years ago it was the snake-handling, poison-drinking Christians of southern Appalachia.
Faith makes us human
We wish something would prove beyond doubt that Someone obliged us large-brained, bipedal primates with a breath of consciousness.
The myth of a religion/science conflict
Are science and religion enemies or friends? Neither, says Peter Harrison—but they're both forms of virtue.