Featured Book: How We Learn to Be Brave

“In the name of our God,” the preacher intoned, “I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now.”  You can’t but wonder if […]

Featured Book: The Amen Effect

Setting the stage for its interview with author Sharon Brous, Religion News Service called her 2024 book, The Amen Effect, “an extended meditation on the importance of showing up—in good times […]

Featured Book: The Gospel of Christian Humanism

Humanism, the late Arthur Broadhurst insisted, “is an essential element of Christian faith”; it can be so “when the focus shifts away from arcane theological arguments, hostile ideological battles, church […]

Featured Book: That All Shall Be Saved

Author David Bentley Hart must be regarded. Consider how scholar John Milbank, president of the Centre of Theology and Philosophy, declares, “After Hart, we can happily throw away most of […]

Featured Book: Some of the Words are Theirs

It may be only in sermon writing that a preacher “finds out what he or she most deeply believes,” Baptist minister Austin Carty ventures in his Some of the Words are […]