12th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A, RCL)

Senior editor Jessica Mesman reviews four new books.

The Enlightenment thinker was fiercely critical of religion. But what did he mean by religion?

Anger can be both healthy and helpful. Rage offers only destruction.

No one is ever outside God’s grace.

False security is a lovely, loathsome thing.

“If the gospel isn’t good news to the women in the passage, is it still good news?”

Amid pandemic and protest, will we turn to each other and live?

Romans 6:3 is strange. A lot of pastors have it memorized.

Jesus keeps saying, “Do not be afraid.” But there’s so much to be afraid of.

New books that are shaping conversations about the Old Testament

We’re too often blind to what God sees.

I preached a word of judgment. The stranger in the back row heard grace.

The Bible gives no sense that the family is an end in itself.

Since my son’s accident, everything I understand about hope has changed.

Baptism is about dying with Christ. Why don't more churches talk about this?