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Cross meets crescent: An interview with Kenneth Cragg
Kenneth Cragg has been a major figure in Christian-Muslim conversations....
Denise Levertov: Work that enfaiths
I will never forget the first time I heard Denise Levertov read her poetry....
Steve Martin is a theologian
A few years ago I resigned as pastor of a congregation I had served for 29 years. It was a reluctant leave taking....
Home remedy
My involvement with the Park Ridge Center for Health, Faith and Ethics has given me opportunity to write on the topic of spiritual healing. But there are times when corporal healing is in order....
Pick it up, read it: John 3:1-17
Embracing Jesus as the Christ means becoming a new person, not a better one.
Following Wesley
By Theodore Runyon, The New Creation: John Wesley's Theology Today. (Abingdon, 270 pp.)...
Formation and reclamation
There's lots of talk about "Christian formation" and "faith development" these days, provoked by a great transformation in the ecology of faith: churches can no longer count on a thick network of C...
Balkan opportunities: Microloans at work
When westerners think about the Balkan peninsula, they think of conflict....
Seminaries and the ecology of faith: An interview with Daniel Aleshire
Daniel O. Aleshire was elected last year as executive director of the Association of Theological Schools....
Rest not in peace: The death and possible rebirth of Christian colleges
By James Tunstead Burtchaell, The Dying of the Light: The Disengagement of Colleges and Universities from Their Christian Churches. (C.S.C. Eerdmans, 880 pp.)...
Checkbook revelations
Would you come and lead a series of classes on sexuality, drawing particularly on our denomination's statement on sexuality?" Such was the request from the leader of a congregation's adult Sunday s...
Deaths and resurrections
Wonderfully restored, 138-year-old Holy Communion Church beckons visitors and worshipers....
The journey begins: Matthew 4:1-11
Neither the journey nor the wilderness comes naturally to Americans anymore.
Caring for families
Edited by Herbert Anderson, Don S. Browning, Ian S. Evison and Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen, The Family Handbook. (Westminster John Knox, 345 pp.)...
The Implied Spider, by Wendy Doniger
By Wendy Doniger, The Implied Spider: Politics and Theology in Myth. (Columbia University Press, 200 pp.)...
Baptism and the Unity of the Church, edited by Michael Root and Risto Saarine, and Mother Church, by Carl E. Braaten.
Edited by Michael Root and Risto Saarinen, Baptism and the Unity of the Church. (Eerdmans, 290 pp.)...
Naked Before God, by Bill Williams, with Martha Williams.
By Bill Williams, with Martha Williams, Naked Before God: The Return of a Broken disciple. (Morehouse, 327 pp.)...
Wild children
Hard to believe that a year has passed since first we heard about Monica. It feels more like a decade that we've been in this Slough of Despond....
Faith’s benefits
It seems that every few weeks we read another report touting the health benefits of being religious....
An exercise in civility: To speak and be heard
Here is a nightmare for those who hate conflict: take a not very large or airy room in Washington, D.C., and jam it full of tables and microphones, chairs and cameras...