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New and Noteworthy
Originally Posted: 02/28/2011 - 8:30pm | Type: Magazine Article

Molly Marsh Sabbath, by Dan Allender; Fasting, by Scot McKnight; The Church on Dauphine Street, by Ann Hedreen and Rustin Thompson; Engage ...

JFK, Resurrection, and Post-Modern Christianity: Books for a New Year
Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:17am | Type: Blog

As you've probably surmised over the last few weeks, we asked God's Politics contributors to send us some of their favorite books of 2008. Here are a few more to add to your list:</p> ...

Peacemaking, Power, and Politics: Books for Reflection
Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 7:52am | Type: Blog

As a former theology and philosophy professor at Asbury Seminary, Sojourners' COO, Chuck Gutenson, is a walking encyclopedia of all things theological As a former theology a ...

A Year of Reading
Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:17am | Type: Blog

Although I didn't read as much or as widely as I would have liked this past year (having a baby and moving cross-country had something to do with that), I did encounter quite a few good books. ...

A Timeless Prophet
Originally Posted: 02/28/2011 - 8:31pm | Type: Magazine Article

Steve Loy As mainline churches work to find positions on difficult social issues, Westminster John Knox Press recovers a 20th-century pro­ ...

Going Green
Originally Posted: 02/28/2011 - 8:31pm | Type: Magazine Article

Tim King There is a battle raging for the definition of “green.” For years the stereotype meant tre ...

New and Noteworthy
Originally Posted: 02/28/2011 - 8:31pm | Type: Magazine Article

Molly Marsh Good News Good News Evangelical Does Not Equal Republican …or Democrat , by Lisa Sharon ...

The Pattern of this World
Originally Posted: 05/13/2011 - 1:15pm | Type: Magazine Article

Emmanuel Katongole Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove A Ugandan Catholic priest, the child of Rw ...

Keeping the Peace
Originally Posted: 02/28/2011 - 8:31pm | Type: Magazine Article

Tobias Winright One of the highlights of the Christian liturgical year for me has been gathering with fr ...

Hip-Hop Holy Land
Originally Posted: 02/28/2011 - 8:31pm | Type: Magazine Article

Andrew Wilkes In Disciples of the Street, Eric Gutierrez weaves three storylines into a narrative about the role of hip-hop in Christian m ...

New and Noteworthy
Originally Posted: 02/28/2011 - 8:31pm | Type: Magazine Article

Molly Marsh Voices of the Movement Voices of the Movement Freedom Song: Young Voices and the Struggl ...

La Anunciación
Originally Posted: 02/28/2011 - 8:31pm | Type: Magazine Article

Demetria Martinez Short fiction on new life in a new country. YOU CAN'T BELIEVE the ninth month will ever ...

Tall Tales and Tiny Revolutions
Originally Posted: 02/28/2011 - 8:31pm | Type: Magazine Article

Molly Marsh Politics and storytelling. Tall Tales and Tiny Revolutions: Politics and fiction have much in co ...

Publishing on Demand
Originally Posted: 02/28/2011 - 8:31pm | Type: Magazine Article

Danny Duncan Collum For 500 years, Western culture, for better or worse, was formed by its books. For 500 year ...

A Hardheaded Faith
Originally Posted: 05/13/2011 - 2:14pm | Type: Magazine Article

Rose Marie Berger Mary Doria Russell, author of the best-selling books The Sparrow and Children of God, tells Sojourners about her discipl ...

This World and the Next
Originally Posted: 05/13/2011 - 2:14pm | Type: Magazine Article

Elizabeth Palmberg Classic books on science fiction and spirituality. Some—okay, a lot—of science fiction trea ...

Through the Laughter and the Tears
Originally Posted: 05/13/2011 - 2:14pm | Type: Magazine Article

Kimberly Burge Uwem Akpan, a Jesuit from Nigeria, tells stories about Africa through its children, creating rich and complex characters th ...

Building Bridges
Originally Posted: 02/28/2011 - 8:31pm | Type: Magazine Article

Molly Marsh Books that traverse the terrain of war and peace, faith and family, and continents and cultures. ...

The God Factor
Originally Posted: 02/28/2011 - 8:32pm | Type: Magazine Article

Molly Marsh Books that bridge faith and politics. These days, you’d have to work pretty hard to avoid the floo ...

New and Noteworthy
Originally Posted: 02/28/2011 - 8:32pm | Type: Magazine Article

Molly Marsh A Dangerous Journey A Dangerous Journey With his characteristic combination of prose and ...

Movers and Shakers
Originally Posted: 02/28/2011 - 8:32pm | Type: Magazine Article

Tony P. Hall When I first entered politics in the late 1960s, I had never heard the term “evangelical.” If I did, I certainly didn’t know ...

Beloved Community
Originally Posted: 02/28/2011 - 8:32pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jason Byassee It is hard to remember how controversial the ministry of Martin Luther King Jr. was during his life. ...

Portraits of the Near Poor
Originally Posted: 02/28/2011 - 8:32pm | Type: Magazine Article

Chuck Collins The gospel calls us to a “preferential option for the poor” to address the conditions of the 37 million adults and children ...

Ron Sider's The Scandal of Evangelical Politics
Originally Posted: 02/28/2011 - 8:32pm | Type: Magazine Article

Ronald J. Sider Tragically, Christian political activity today is a disaster. Christ­ians embrace contradictory positions on almost every ...

Picturing Daniel Berrigan's poetry
Originally Posted: 02/28/2011 - 8:32pm | Type: Magazine Article

Madeleine Mysko Before he was killed in World War I—tragically, just days before the Armistice—the poet Wilfred Owen wrote these words as ...