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An old insurance company term for natural disasters is “acts of God,” which unfortunately links the Holy One with everything awful and unforeseen that can befall humanity, as if God were not just c...

Apparently insomnia is a family trait. My mother often lies awake at night. Her father (my grandfather) was a man of immense energy who routinely read until 1 or 2 a.m.I recall lying awake as a child, listening to murmurs of the television shows my parents were watching. As an adult I developed the sometime and uneasy rhythm of one night of wakefulness until 3 or 4 in the morning, followed by a night of a full eight hours’ sleep. I decided long ago not to lie awake in the dark. Instead I read or listen to music.

The 500th anniversary of Calvin’s birth last year prompted the publication of a spate of works celebrating his life and theology....

De La Torre writes “to assist the churchgoing layperson in understanding the complexity of the current immigration debate.” ...

Under the Unpredictable Plant: An Exploration in Vocational Holiness, by Eugene H. Peterson (Eerdmans)....

Brother to a Dragonfly, by Will D. Campbell (Continuum). Will Campbell distrusts institutions, the religious enterprise, and faith that is too settled....

Evangelical Lutheran Worship (Augsburg Fortress)....

Working the Angles: The Shape of Pastoral Integrity, by Eugene H. Peterson (Eerdmans)....

Miss Manners’ Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior, by Judith Martin (Norton)....

Theology sits precariously between two precipices. On one side is a sharp drop called “Too heavenly minded to be of any earthly use.” On the other side is an equally sharp drop called “Speaking about humanity in a loud voice.”If these precipices endanger theology in general, they are particular hazards for the branch of theology known as anthropology. David Kelsey is sure at every step to avoid the second danger. His magisterial two-volume theological anthropology offers an exemplary approach to avoiding it.

One of the greatest challenges for Christians today is to move beyond simply acknowledging the growing religious diversi...

Having buried close to 200 young people who were killed in gang violence, Gregory Boyle could be pardoned for a lot: despa...

In 2008, just a...

Eugene Peterson writes often and clearly about spiritual theology, which has helped greatly to define a discipline t...

No nonfiction writer of quality can finally resist the urge to commit fiction....

You can take people out of Detroit—in fact, that’s happening more and more—but it seems you can’t take Detroit out of artists who know what to do with large...

Not so long ago, the standard view was that American poetry had been thoroughly secularized by the great modernist poets, ...

It’s almost a job requirement for poets: accept the fact of being far removed from mainstream artistic culture....

Set in rural Louisiana, Udayan Prasad’s tender, affecting road picture The Yellow Handker chief combines a coming-of-age narrative with the tale of a man driven to seek the salvation ...

Anderson looks at the interpretive problems created when biblical laws concerning wome...