Features
Reports of heaven
Seating chart
Highly evolved questions: What scientists and theologians talk about
Samaritans at Heathrow: Encounters at an airport chapel
Discriminating force: Just war and counterinsurgency
Dying in community: The black church and hospice care
Voices
Stephanie Paulsell
Christian humanists
Religious communities have long helped cultivate humanistic practices. We don't often think of ourselves in this way—but what if we did?
Philip Jenkins
The cross and the lotus
It's ironic that multicultural approaches to Christianity are dismissed as novel or “politically correct.” They are deeply rooted in our past.
Books
Discernment, by Henri Nouwen, with Michael J. Christensen and Rebecca J. Laird
Leading God’s People, by Christopher A. Beeley
Clergy need reminders about the core purpose of their work. Christopher Beeley draws on the works of early church leaders to deliver one.
Historian with a cause
Martin Duberman delivers the first biography of Howard Zinn since Zinn’s death in 2010. He treats Zinn with kid gloves but does not completely shy away from criticism.
Prayers of a Young Poet, by Rainer Maria Rilke
Eat with Joy, by Rachel Marie Stone
When Rachel Marie Stone offers homilies of food redemption rather than damnation, it may feel like a lovely if disorienting kind of grace.