Books

The whole church needs to encounter the courage and truthfulness of the fact that God created us good, to love and be loved.

18th-century colonists drank beer with breakfast and continued throughout the day, with average consumption twice as high as today’s.

Canadian pastor Brian Arthur Brown presents the sacred scriptures of four Eastern faith traditions alongside critical essays about the texts.

According to some Mormon traditions, God and Jesus have made babies—God with the Heavenly Mother, and Jesus with one of his wives.

Belief in the incarnation places suffering bodies within the realm of Christian responsibility.

Far from being meaningless slights with minimal harm, microagressions intrude on the spiritual lives of those who are already marginalized and oppressed.

Even in the jagged edges of life, God’s glory shines. And we are the cultivators of this glory.

Much of what Christianity has long been saying about the cross of Christ is problematic. So what is to be done about it?

There’s some good news amid the gloom of global terrorism—namely, the little-known world of wasatiyya, or centrist, Islam.

Honest and harrowing, this spiritual autobiography testifies to God’s persuasive presence in a life that bears family legacies of slavery, alcoholism, abuse, and mental illness.

Oord’s kenosis model is a compelling answer to the problem of evil—one that draws on scripture, theology, philosophy, and science.

The physical reality of her son, the very tangible way that he is a part of her, will not go away. He is with her everywhere she goes.

Many Americans have gone from being squeamish about same-sex marriage to being squeamish about telling their gay friends that their relationships are less than valid.

You can never fully know your child’s interior life. You cannot know the measure of sadness or rage that may be unfolding within them.

Part history and part memoir, this volume gently immerses readers in Jewish traditions surrounding death.

The unexpected Christian century has produced a global body of Christ that challenges as well as enriches Christians.

Almost any page of this collection yields the precise puzzling haunting music of Dillard’s mind at work.

This slim volume of poetry gives voice to the women of the Bible, named and unnamed.

What's the biblical God's essential characteristic? According to Cobb, it's the loving care a mother or father gives an infant.

This provocative book portrays hope as a virtue, a moral orientation that can be cultivated actively, a matter of will.