Features
Affirmation of being: In defense of atonement theology
Witness to the dark: Ashes in the streets
Bedbug epiphany: A Three Kings pageant
Which global church? The Pentecostal World Fellowship and the WCC
Voices
M. Craig Barnes
Truth in beautiful spaces
When did we stop taking church architecture seriously? Christians used to devote themselves to building projects that lasted over a hundred years. Not anymore.
Philip Jenkins
Secular South Africa?
In religious terms, the emerging South Africa looks at once thoroughly African and surprisingly European.
Books
Rethinking Christian Identity, by Medi Ann Volpe
Playing God, by Andy Crouch
Power is a gift, a means of peacemaking, a God-sanctioned key to human flourishing. This is the striking claim advanced in Andy Crouch's engaging new book.
Preaching God’s Transforming Justice, edited by Dawn Ottoni-Wilhelm, Ronald J. Allen and Dale P. Andrews
Lethal prescription
There are few heroes in Sheri Fink's harrowing narrative of overwhelmed health-care workers during and after Hurricane Katrina.
The New Middle East, by Paul Danahar
Christians in the United States who are committed to accompanying the churches of the Middle East are looking for help in understanding the shifting dynamics of the region after the Arab Spring. Paul Danahar’s lengthy study would seem to promise such help.