Driving home from Seattle, the rain was both daunting and beautiful. Driving home from Seattle, the rain was both daunting and beautiful. So was our immediate future, as our son ...

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One of the toughest parts of being the author of a book about racial reconciliation is that when the latest racial incident flares up, everyone expects you to chime in with your two cents. ...

Last month's <em>Christianity Today</em> featured an <a href="http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2009/october/13.23.html?start=5" target="_blank">article </a>o ...

Molly Marsh Science and religion books explore the "seen and the unseen." The fields of science and ...

Bryan Cones Check out these resources on worship and liturgy. After the “proper” way to interpret scripture, t ...

<em>In my ongoing quest to find a third way between the extremes espoused by the Religious Right and their secular counterparts, I came across the Frank Schaeffer's latest book </em><em> ...

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My first job after college forever changed the way I prayed. Before I started it, I prayed that God would show me how to best serve him after receiving my diploma. My first job a ...

"Ms. Baker, why are you teaching <em>here</em>?" one student, whom I'll call Solomon, inquired during one of our after school tutoring sessions. "You went to college," he ...

Climate Week is upon us, and as world leaders gather at the UN and the G-20 to nibble away at the problem of international cooperation to address the issue, popular American responses seem to veer ...

In his September 9 <em>New York Times</em> article,<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/opinion/10pollan.html"> "Big Food vs. In his Septemb ...

A couple of weeks ago <a href="http://livelydust.blogspot.com/2009/08/review-healing-of-america.html">I previewed</a> T.R. A couple of weeks ago I previewe ...

David Hilfiker The Bridge at the End of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability, by James Gusta ...

Molly Marsh Everyday Justice: The Global Impact of Our Daily Choices, by Julie Clawson; The Fray, by The Fray; Learning to Sing in a Stran ...

The passing of Sen. The passing of Sen. Edward Kennedy has brought forth many reflections on his ability-regardless of his reputation as the archetypal Massachusetts liberal-to en ...

Marilyn McEntyre Review: Boundless Faith: The Global Outreach of American Churches, by Robert Wuthnow. University of California Press. ...

Peter Leoschke Regarding “Are Books Obsolete?” by Molly Marsh (May 2009): As a LEED accredited professional, I appreciate the necessity of ...

Rosalie Riegle Contesting Patriotism: Culture, Power, and Strategy in the Peace Movement, by Lynne M. Woehrle, Patrick G. Coy, and Gregory ...

Barbara Bradley Hagerty A journalist explores the science of spirituality. The golden rule of journalism decre ...

Molly Marsh Dom Helder Camara: Essential Writings, by Francis McDonagh; Where Mercy Fails: Darfur's Struggle to Survive, by Chris Her ...

Lynne Elyse Farmer As a bibliophile who loves the act of reading but also the sensory experience of a book’s look, feel, and smell, I thou ...

Glen Peterson Welcoming the Stranger: Justice, Compassion, and the Truth in the Immigration Debate, by Matthew Soerens and Jenny Hwang. In ...

Anne Colamosca Come Home, America: The Rise and Fall (and Redeeming Promise) of Our Country, by William Greider. Rodale Books. ...

As I process the conversations I had recently at EVDC09 (a gathering of emerging church participants to discuss the future of Emergent Village), I realized that one of the topics that keeps surfaci ...

Molly Marsh A rough economy, changing reading habits, and a planet in peril are forcing book publishers to retool the way they do business ...

Dale Hanson Bourke Books get a second life in a global library. It’s possible that we finally get it. We live ...

Molly Marsh Books on the environment, the economy, and equity. Whether you’re a die-hard “greenie” or someone ...

<a href="http://www.urbanfaith.com/images/HoleinGospelCover121x178.jpg"></a> <p>As the pastor of a church with a deep desire to love others as Christ would, I've recently been ...

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Sarah K. Masterson A pop culture Word for a pop culture world. What happens when a Swedish ad executive sets o ...

Chris Smith A People's History of Christianity: The Other Side of the Story, by Diana Butler Bass. HarperOne. ...

Soong-Chan Rah Excerpt from The Next Evangelicalism: Freeing the Church from Western Cultural Captivity. I am ...

Molly Marsh God Drops and Loses Things, by Kilian McDonnell; 15 Days of Prayer, series from New Press; Servant or Sucker, by Beth Templeto ...

<p>John Hope Franklin lived through most of the twentieth century. He was a gentle man, a scholar, an activist, and a truth-teller. He studied history and he helped to make it.</p> ...

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If you all didn't know already, <a href="https://twitter.com/Sojourners">Sojourners has a twitter account</a>! It's been a lot of fun communicating with all of you "followe ...

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During the Lenten season, I decided to see how I could put into practice this <a href="http://blog.sojo.net/2009/02/27/confession-radicalism-often-turns-people-into-jerks-rather-than-lovers/">g ...

Edward F. Snyder JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters, by James W. Douglass. Orbis. James W ...

Marilyn Lacey An excerpt from This Flowing Toward Me: A Story of God Arriving in Strangers. I started out thin ...

J. Dana Trent Passing the Plate: Why American Christians Don't Give Away More Money, by Christian Smith and Michael O. Emerson, with ...

Molly Marsh The Complete Leader's Guide to Christian Retreats, by Rachel Gilmore; In Romero's Legacy, by Pilar and John Hogan; W ...

Richard E. Stearns How I went from being a corporate CEO to an anti-poverty activist. His name was Richard, th ...

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<p>Peace actions often evoke disgust, anger, and fear from the uninvolved bystander. Epithets are hurled at the demonstrators, with coward and traitor perhaps the favorites. Why should advocating peace e ...

<p>Former President Jimmy Carter just published a new book about the ongoing violent unrest in the Middle East titled, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1439140634?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=soj ...

Barbara Brown Taylor An excerpt from the book An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith. No one longs for wh ...

John Malkin Jesuit John Dear and his Persistent Peace. Jesuit John Dear’s peace activism has led him all ove ...