Lawrence Wood

Lawrence Wood is senior minister of St. Andrew by the Sea, a community church in Gulf Shores, Alabama.

The lines between sacred history and contemporary life are wonderfully, miraculously blurred.

by Lawrence Wood April 28, 2016

Yes, Go Set a Watchman has its problems; yes, it needed an editor. Yet one senses that this fiction has grown out of a life lived.

by Lawrence Wood September 28, 2015

In many books, the Jim Crow era is mediated through the sensibilities of white people. Jim Auchmutey shrewdly avoids this.

by Lawrence Wood July 6, 2015

Penelope Fitzgerald wrote her first novel at 60 and became famous at 80. "How does she do it?" asked A. S. Byatt. Hermione Lee tries to answer.

reviewed by Lawrence Wood May 20, 2015

In Ian Leslie’s telling, curiosity is far from a valued quality. Augustine, he notes, equated curiosity with temptation.

reviewed by Lawrence Wood December 28, 2014

The Christian Century