Featured Book: Twelve Brief Lessons in Radical Theology
“The God…who answers prayers, and defends the weak, can no longer be defended.” Indeed, “[t]he God of conventional theism is dead.” This, at any rate, is critic Peter Vardy’s take […]
Library Learnings: Salvation: “eternal destiny” or a “seismic inner shift”?
Huh? You want us to do what? You want us to revisit the old-line tenets of the Christian religion, the ones from which we’ve moved on? Why would we do that? […]
Featured Book: The Seasoned Soul: Reflections on Growing Older
In elderhood, “we seem to forget our wonder at the changes and new skills that aging can bring,” Eliza Blanchard writes in The Seasoned Soul. “This loss of our sense […]
Featured Book: Why Christians Should Be Leftists
Phil Christman explains Why Christians Should Be Leftists by pointing up The Sermon on the Mount, which begins with the Beatitudes: love, compassion, and selflessness are called for. “He urges all Christians,” […]
Library Learnings: Progressive Christianity: it’s meant to transform us
A popular (though debatable) aphorism has it that writers should write about what they know—Hemingway is credited with having proffered this counsel. I appear to have shrugged off this exhortation […]