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October 2017

October 09, 2017

Discovering “Biblical Truths”

If a literal, “plain-text” reading of the Bible, especially as informed by modern evangelical theology,...

October 02, 2017

Bible Nation: The United States of Hobby Lobby

A new book explores the small but powerful family behind Hobby Lobby and how they...

September 2017

September 06, 2017

What’s So Confusing About Grace?

The answer to the question posed by the title of Randal Rauser's new book, What's...

January 2017

January 17, 2017

Native Americans, the Mainline Church, and the Quest for Interracial Justice

David Phillips Hansen's new book, Native Americans, the Mainline Church, and the Quest for Interracial...

December 2016

December 05, 2016

An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a Bar…

Randal Rauser's and Justin Schieber's new book, An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a...

November 2016

November 04, 2016

Relig-ish: Soulful Living in a Spiritual-But-Not-Religious World

As so many people resoundingly reject the hypocrisy, hate, homophobia, and misogyny of the Christian...

August 2016

August 15, 2016

The Love that Will Not Let You Go

The Love that Will Not Let You Go: Being Christian is Not What You Think...

July 2016

July 05, 2016

Lions: A Novel by Bonnie Nadzam

Bonnie Nadzam's newly-released second novel, LIONS, is a ghost story--a ghost story about the spirit...

June 2016

June 15, 2016

The Good Book of Human Nature

In their new book The Good Book of Human Nature, evolutionary anthropologist Carel van Schaik...

June 06, 2016

Can Christians Support the Death Penalty?

The answer to the question posed in the title of this post is no. A...

May 2016

May 16, 2016

How LGBTQ People Can Revitalize Christianity

Elizabeth Edman is a queer priest. She is also a priestly queer.

April 2016

April 04, 2016

The Sin of Certainty

If you’ve ever had doubts about your faith, if you’ve never had doubts your faith,...

February 2016

February 23, 2016

The Jihad of Jesus

What if, instead of representing violence, hate, war, and death, jihad was understood as a...

February 08, 2016

Review: Life’s Too Short to Pretend You’re Not Religious

A review of David Dark's new book "Life's Too Short to Pretend You're Not Religious."

September 2015

September 17, 2015

Love in the Anthropocene

“How will love arise in a world without nature as we have known it?” This...

July 2015

July 24, 2015

Are Atheists Just Rebelling Against God?

We’re all familiar with the atheist caricature: that rude and crude purveyor of mockery and...

July 22, 2015

The Paranormal Conspiracy: The Truth about Ghosts, Aliens and Mysterious Beings

I'm a skeptic. Perhaps not quite skeptical enough for my atheist friends, but nevertheless I'm...

April 2015

April 13, 2015

One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America

Kevin Kruse’s new book, "One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America," engagingly...

March 2015

March 02, 2015

How (and why) Adam and Eve evolved

What really happened at the dawn of human existence? Were Adam and Eve real people?...

February 2015

February 16, 2015

Can gentleness save evangelical apologetics?

"Apologetics itself has become a problem. It has become a problem in both its content...

February 02, 2015

Can Christians and Muslims be friends?

Can Christians and Muslims be friends? For Mennonite missionary David Shenk, the answer is not...

January 2015

January 26, 2015

Does “The Moral Arc” bend towards truth and justice?

Michael Shermer is an optimist who argues that religion’s tribalistic and xenophobic roots establish it...

January 06, 2015

What’s the good news about Christianity? N.T. Wright answers in “Simply Good News”

N.T. Wright's new book, "Simply Good News: Why the Gospel Is News and What Makes...

December 2014

December 10, 2014

Faith is the task of a lifetime

I'm a Christian because of Søren Kierkegaard. The 19th-century Danish philosopher didn't introduce me to...

November 2014

November 13, 2014

Chiseling away: Pulitzer Prize winner Ted Kooser’s “Splitting an Order”

Kooser's careful observations of objects, animals, people and places reveal the beauty that exists everywhere...

November 04, 2014

Mary Curran Hackett’s novel provides “Proof of Angels”

Despite its title, Mary Curran Hacket's just released book doesn't offer empirical evidence for the...

October 2014

October 27, 2014

Reading the Bible like a cowboy riding an ostrich into the sunset

The just released book "Disquiet Time: Rants and Reflections on the Good Book by the...

October 21, 2014

Finding “The Lost Way” of Early Christianity

Stephen J. Patterson's new book, released today, "The Lost Way: How Two Forgotten Gospels Are...

October 01, 2014

Abundant and impossible to fill: “Copia,” a book of poems by Erika Meitner

In her new collection of poetry, Copia, Erika Meitner writes about urban and suburban life,...

September 2014

September 04, 2014

Prostitutes, Virgins and Mothers: Questioning Teachings About Biblical Women

In “Prostitutes, Virgins and Mothers: Questioning Teachings About Biblical Women,” Dr. Paula Trimble-Familetti sets out...

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