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5 books for ministry
Brother to a Dragonfly, by Will D. Campbell (Continuum). Will Campbell distrusts institutions, the religious enterprise, and faith that is too settled....
5 books for ministry
Working the Angles: The Shape of Pastoral Integrity, by Eugene H. Peterson (Eerdmans)....
5 books for ministry
Miss Manners’ Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior, by Judith Martin (Norton)....
Eccentric Existence: A Theological Anthropology
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.
Among the Gentiles: Greco-Roman Religion and Christianity
One of the greatest challenges for Christians today is to move beyond simply acknowledging the growing religious diversi...
Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
Having buried close to 200 young people who were killed in gang violence, Gregory Boyle could be pardoned for a lot: despa...
Practice Resurrection: A Conversation on Growing Up in Christ
Eugene Peterson writes often and clearly about spiritual theology, which has helped greatly to define a discipline t...
Apparition and Late Fictions: A Novella and Stories
No nonfiction writer of quality can finally resist the urge to commit fiction....
The Art Student's War
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...
Evidence: Poems/God Particles: Poems
Not so long ago, the standard view was that American poetry had been thoroughly secularized by the great modernist poets, ...
For Lovers of God Everywhere: Poems of the Christian Mystics
It’s almost a job requirement for poets: accept the fact of being far removed from mainstream artistic culture....
The Yellow Handkerchief
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 ...
Take and read
Anderson looks at the interpretive problems created when biblical laws concerning wome...
Come and help us
It’s every evangelist’s dream come true: the stranger who comes right out and pleads for our help...
No devil in the details
Learning to read isn’t finished by the time you’re eight and you know how to sound out the words on the page. It’s a practice that grows along with the years....
A bill about life: The larger moral picture
In the end, the issue of abortion did not derail health-care reform. But that’s what would have happened had the U.S....
Century Marks
State of poverty: Bread for the World has an online resource providing state-by-state information on hunger and poverty (see “State Hunger Facts” in the resources section at offeringofletters.org)—a great comparative tool. In Illinois, 11.1 percent of households struggle to put food on their table, compared to 17.4 in Mississippi and 14.6 nationally; 12.2 percent of households in Illinois live below the poverty line compared to 21.2 in Mississippi and 13.2 nationally.