Features
Clarissa and her flowers
Against killing children
Cultivating literary Dallas
Gods who make worlds
Palestinian and Christian in a violent time
Faith at the expense of freedom
The deluge and after
Voices
Brian Bantum
Being salt
When I got into cooking, it changed the way I understand Jesus’ statement, “You are the salt of the earth.”
Rachel Mann
What does poetry do?
Maybe nothing. Maybe that’s its power.
Isaac S. Villegas
The meaning of a sermon
I’m sure these faithful people have heard all of these words before. So what is my task here?
Samuel Wells
Three responses to church decline
What are we going to do? We have some options.
Debie Thomas
The hope I’ve arrived at
I used to put a positive spin on everything. The effort didn’t serve my children—or my own heart.
Books
For love of Dante
Angela Alaimo O’Donnell writes, in 39 poems, a charmingly backhanded love letter to the Italian poet.
Piercing the veil
Zach Williams’s stories of everyday life are propelled by strange turns of events, like a dad discovering his son’s sixth toe in the bath.
Does Nathan Hill wink at us in Wellness?
Why are non-White characters so absent from this urban/suburban narrative?
A Lincoln parable
Civil War historian Allen Guelzo documents Lincoln’s faith—not in God but in the American experiment.
Dear God, you can do better
Two Episcopal priests tell God exactly how they feel about being seriously ill.
The prophetic ministry of the pulpit
Jonathan Augustine makes a strong case for preaching that is both divinely inspired and socially determined.
The forgotten victims of Nazi genocide
Jewish historian Ari Joskowicz tells the story of Hitler’s attempt to wipe out the Roma people.
Was Paul disabled?
Isaac Soon employs a sociocultural model of disability as a lens for reading the apostle’s letters.
Illuminating Qohelet through art and philosophy
Debra Band and Menachem Fisch’s beautiful creation is not your typical Ecclesiastes commentary.
A different kind of poverty memoir
Dana Trent’s heartbreaking and hilarious book eschews the conventional American rags-to-riches arc.
Inside a church’s implosion
Eliza Griswold profiles a progressive evangelical church that sought to do things differently but fell prey to the usual problems.
Finding ourselves in a Nigerian war novel
Chigozie Obioma offers a narrative that transcends bullets and politics.
Departments
The heart of the humanities
What comes after a ceasefire?
