Features
Behold the hippo: A zoologist sings the doxology
Truth is proportional: The limits of what we can know
Wisdom and light
Talking less, seeing more: An interview with Sara Maitland
In pursuit of silence: My annual sojourn into the Sinai Desert
A Separation
Crunching the numbers
Missing winter: Notes from the farm
Voices
Philip Jenkins
Betrayal of the faithful
For some Christians, the menace of apostasy is anything but distant or theoretical.
M. Craig Barnes
Anxious in Palestine
Palestinian parents don’t fret about drugs or drunk drivers. They worry that the Israeli soldiers will use their M-16s.
Books
Gathering Those Driven Away, by Wendy Farley
Wendy Farley formulates a theology of Wisdom incarnate--unleashed by divine desire, found in ordinary life and born in a manger.
God of wholeness
Fred Gaiser offers a sober, accessible review of the biblical materials pertinent to our thinking about healing.
Devil's Ink, by Jeffrey C. Pugh, and The Devil Wears Nada, by Tripp York
Jeffrey C. Pugh and Tripp York are Facebook friends. Both teach religion at southern institutions of higher learning. Last year, each wrote a good-natured book about Satan.