Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a semi-aristocratic German theologian and minister who, through family connections, joined a conspiracy to overthrow the Third Reich. Having decided that a

Early on in the book Caste, Isabel Wilkerson invokes a metaphor familiar to anyone conversant with Jesus’s parables.  She says that society is like a

At first glance, the subtitle of Jennifer M. McBride’s book, Radical Discipleship: A Liturgical Politics of the Gospel (Fortress Press, 2017) might appear to embody

Willie Jennings, now a professor at Yale Divinity School, was an academic dean at Duke Divinity School for ten years, has been teaching divinity students

It has been one hundred years since Herman Bavinck died. Much has changed and shifted in our world in the last ten years, let alone

Thomas Lynch has a singular voice in American literature. Although an accomplished poet and essayist, it’s his day job as owner of Lynch and Sons

Esau McCaulley’s Reading While Black is a detailed analysis and explication of the African American biblical interpretive enterprise as seen in its traditional ecclesial life

I am made in such a way that when events happen in our world that trouble me, I read to better understand them. I have

My wife and I are the parents of three children, two of whom have Down syndrome. I vividly remember a church service some years back