Features
Presbyopia and other milestones: Relinquishment
Older people take us by surprise. All of a sudden one day, they are us. This happened to me recently. Having been retired four years, I was asked to meet with a class of seminary students because, I was told, I would be a real, live sample of an older person. I hadn't sought the honor.
Books
Fearfully and wonderfully made: Reflections on cosmetic surgery
Making the Body Beautiful: A Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery, by Sander Gilman...
Questioning creationism
Tower of Babel: Against the New Creationism, by Robert T. Pennock...
Growing in the Life of Faith, by Craig Dykstra
Sadly, astonishingly, suicidally—pick your adverb—mainstream Protestants, Roman Catholics and not a few evangelicals have for decades neglected Christian education and nurture....
Welcoming But Not Affirming, by Stanley J. Grenz
Stanley Grenz is responding to "welcoming and affirming churches"—churches "convinced that the Christian mandate involve[s] not only ministering to homosexual persons but also sanctioning same-sex ...
Departments
Leaving a landmark
As we moved out of the Old Colony building a few days ago, I remembered having written about the place back in 1977 when it—along with the Fisher building to the north and the Manhattan building to the south—was being considered for landmark statu...
Another look at Waco: Difficult lessons
Did federal agents start the conflagration in which 75 Branch Davidians died near Waco, Texas, on April 19, 1993?...
Divine violence?
In the New Testament, God's "violence" is a precondition of human nonviolence.
Lectionary
Christ-haunted landscape: Leviticus 19:1-2, 15-18
Leviticus wants to draw a clear line between God and God's creation.