When Larry Engel thanked Mike Breininger for running a productive meeting, Breininger was startled: "I don't recall a liberal pastor ever complimenting me."
In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands, my dad couldn't sing national songs. The Nazis saw the church's Psalter, however, as innocuous. Little did they know.
When my daughter broke her femur, it seemed clear that we shouldn't conceive another child who might inherit my bone disorder. That clarity was short-lived.
Our fall books issue's reviews include Greg Carey on Reza Aslan, Katherine Willis Pershey on Debbie Blue, Philip Jenkins on Diarmaid MacCulloch and more.