John Buchanan

For those of us who measure time not only by the liturgical calendar but by the baseball season, fall is a time to reflect on what happened or did not happen....

One of the messages my church sent me when I was an adolescent was: Don’t date Catholic girls; you never know where it might lead....

Summer vacation for me and my family means the beach. Every year, with one or two exceptions, we find a way to travel to the ocean....

During the first Iraq war, after the United States started dropping bombs as a prelude to Desert Storm, homiletics professor David Buttrick surveyed mainline churches around the country to see if t...

Jason Byassee’s account of six Protestant theologians who made the journey to the Roman Catholic Church made me reflect on my own exp...

On the heels of denominational meetings this summer, “Everything you wanted to know about Christianity" is just what I needed....

"O sing to the Lord a new song,” the psalmist urges. I’ve always imagined someone in the back pew saying, “There’s nothing wrong with the old song.”

It’s summer, a time when most preachers are lucky enough to enjoy an extended Sabbath....

In times of crisis, churches rise to the occasion....

Everything that Jürgen Moltmann writes is worth reading and thinking about, beginning with his Theology of Hope (1964) and its compelling message that Christianity is deeply and essentially ...

My interest in books leads to odd behavior sometimes: checking out the content of the bookshelves when I am visiting someone’s home or a colleague’s study, sneaking a look at whatever my airplane s...

In terms of commercial activity, Mother’s Day is the third-biggest holiday in the U.S., with 140 million greeting cards sold and $7 billion spent on presents and meals—and 60 million roses....

I am unapologetically patriotic by temperament and upbringing....

In the days before Easter, preachers find themselves ricocheting back and forth between anticipation of full-to-overflowing sanctuaries and anxiety about being up to the task....

I like the title of Jon Sweeney’s book Born Again and Again, reviewed in this issue along with three other memoirs dealing with fundamentalism....

Pentecostal styles of worship and spirituality have come to pervade mainstream Christianity, as Larry Eskridge points out....

A generation or two ago, American novelists could assume that people would understand biblical allusions, hence titles like East of Eden, Absalom, Absalom! and Song of Solom...