Featured Book: The Last Week

“[T]he events of Holy Week,” a United Church of Christ pastor laments in her review of this book, “are surrounded by so much baggage of atonement theology, pietism, and oversimplification.” […]
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Pope Francis: “listen to another person’s voice” For much of March, many in this world watched and wondered: would Pope Francis live or die. The 88-year-old pontiff was hospitalized for […]
Featured Book: The Meaning of Belief

“[Tom] Crane’s is a crystal-clear, nuanced, and perceptive book,” declares Argumenta—it’s the Journal of Analytic Philosophy—“that atheists and believers alike can read without being misrepresented or misjudged.” It’s as Metapsychology Online […]
Featured Book: Life After Faith

In this book, Columbia University philosophy professor Philip Kitcher is “refreshing,” journeywithjesus.net affirms, “because he repudiates the contempt for religion” that the so-called “new atheists” posit. “He does not view […]
Featured Book: Reflections

Inevitably, one thing leads to another. A relative in Wisconsin emails to your librarians a clipping from a newspaper there—a “Dear Reader” letter from the publisher: “On aging and invisibility.” […]