In a CNN interview, Christopher Moore explained his goal in writing the novel Lamb: to show how Jesus, in his growing-up years—about which the Scriptures say nothing—learned “to be the

Building upon the foundation she created in her previous volume, The Great Emergence—our last Featured Book—Phyllis Tickle, in Emergence Christianity, published four years later, offers a “breathtakingly ambitious…attempt to describe the beliefs,

In this 2008 book, the late Phyllis Tickle contends that the western church is experiencing another upheaval and rearrangement like it did during the Reformation. So it is that she “escorts

A kind of new religion journalism is emerging. In it, the reporter includes his or her own personal, subjective experience: they “don’t shy away from personalizing thoughts,” Publishers Weekly observes in

News of the day, of the world—seemingly always, only dark and disheartening—got you down? About that, Brian Treanor is understanding, but unbowed, actually resistive. He tells you why and how