Brief reviews of 'The Circle of Seasons,' 'The Best American Essays 2012,' and 'One for the Books'

An excerpt from 'Glorious Ruin: How Suffering Sets You Free.'

Fact-checking the widely cited reason the Christian retail chain is not carrying Rachel Held Evans's book.

Amid a flurry of bestsellers promising firsthand proof of Heaven's existence, Ed Dobson takes a brutally honest look at the pain of terminal illness and the difficulties of dying well.

It may not be as dead as it seems, argues David Swartz. Maybe it even won.

Mass migration to the West is destroying old missions distinctions.

Hanna Rosin's 'The End of Men' celebrates women's enormous strides in education and business. Why I can't don my party hat yet.

But Kenneth Collins's libertarian contempt for government is not the way forward.

It's a profound mistake to neglect our gay brothers and sisters in the body of Christ.

Ben Witherington III calls for serious theological reflection on activities that occupy most of our waking hours.

A brief look.

A brief look.

Brief reviews of 'The Divine Voice,' 'So Brilliantly Clever,' and 'American Science Fiction'

Marching under the banner of "rationality," cultural progressives fear the public influence of religion—and often dislike religious people themselves

Brief reviews of 'The Church and Literature,' The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln,' and 'Arlo Needs Glasses'

Eric Jacobsen, author of 'The Space Between: A Christian Engagement with the Built Environment,' says place matters for human flourishing.

Os Guinness correctly sees America sinking into "soft despotism," but his proposals for restoring its civic health don't go deep enough.

A brief look.

A brief look