When I co-wrote Besides the Bible, a collection of essays about books my co-authors and I think every Christian should read, our hopes for the project were modest. We wanted to encourage followers of Jesus to talk about books, especially the really good books. “This is not a list of… [more]
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Frank Langella and fame
I recently came across two interviews with Frank Langella discussing his memoir Dropped Names: Famous Men and Women as I Knew Them. I first saw Langella on the Tavis Smiley Show and then Charlie Rose the next night. Both times I watched with great fascination as Langella talked as much… [more]
Why Maurice Sendak should be next to your kids’ story Bible
Every Sunday I read the announcement - the one about the book drive to stock the kids’ library at my church with classic children’s books. Every Sunday, I think, I’ve got so many books. I have to go through them and donate. And then every Sunday I come back from… [more]
Do women really want 50 Shades of Grey?
I recently watched the “Saturday Night Live” spoof of 50 Shades of Grey, the E.L. James book that millions of women all over the world are claiming has rejuvenated their sex lives. The spoof made me laugh, but it also made me sad. Because I teach a course on gender… [more]
The broadening agenda of young Christians
Editor’s note: This is an excerpt from Jonathan Merritt’s new book, A Faith of Our Own. Some of today’s leading Christian entities and voices show new life as they support a broadening agenda. Still socially conservative on many issues, they feel called to attend to issues that most Christians haven’t… [more]
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Jonah Stowe Tennyson's reflections on the meaning of life, death and the growing conflict between science and religion are still powerfully relevant...
What books should every Christian read?
Elizabeth Anne Hamilton God created sex, so why should we be unable to talk about it in an appropriate manner?
Do women really want 50 Shades of Grey?
bob s. I get a little nervous when I've seen up close a good 20+ years now of Christian churches in the U.S. starting up social programs. The end results are too often not what we'd like to think they are...
The broadening agenda of young Christians
Christopher Hutton If one doesn't understand what makes excellent literature, and why certain elements are valuable, they are likely to react and ban it...
The concrete quest of A Wrinkle in Time
Norma1 Both the "justice" system and society have a long way to go in helping to restore people with sex offender backgrounds...
Coming face to face with sex offenders in Lost Memory of Skin
Adam Forrest Interesting thoughts, though I would like to challenge your statement that some kindnesses are banal. If I treat real virtues like honesty and humility as banal goodness, I think I would be taking good graces for granted.
How the Berenstain Bears enhance the Ten Commandments