Why the world needs Sarah Coakley
Coakley's kind of theology requires more than claims. It needs prayer.
Sarah Morice-Brubaker's Christmas picks
Jes Baker’s Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls: A Handbook for Unapologetic Living (Seal Press), will be a handy book to have around in early January, when our culture’s annual rites of bo...
The Work of Theology, by Stanley Hauerwas
Longtime Hauerwas readers will not be surprised to hear that his new book is maddening—nor that some of the most maddening aspects are also the most rewarding.
Doctrine’s many lives
Christine Helmer’s important new book has an unusual literary feature: its titular character is killed off not once, but twice.
Open to transformation
Kristine A. Culp has produced a sophisticated, original and timely work
of constructive theology. It also happens to be a great story—even a
page-turner.
Keeping House
Pastors, religious educators and denominational officers, take note: many people in your churches would appreciate a Christian explanat...
End of days: NBC's 'Revelations'
Theology geeks with whom I’ve discussed the NBC miniseries Revelations are usually indignant that it does not engage in a scholarly, historically aware study of the book of Revelation....
Strangely familiar: Imagined book tables
At a recent theology conference I made a beeline for the book table the instant a coffee break was called. But all the volumes seemed strangely familiar....