Tom Wolfe's new novel, largely reviewed as a satiric report on the sexual mores of today's college students, is fundamentally about the nature of the human will.

How perpetrators are more gullible than their victims. An excerpt from Cleaning Up.

More than a semi-annual crack at irregular churchgoers, the Christmas sermon has traditionally invited us to worship and wonder.

For adult children of divorced parents, the holidays aren't as happy as they are supposed to be. Author Jen Abbas has some advice.

And a warning about the risks of reading.

A 30-year-old ponders his spiritual journey in the evangelical subculture.

The difference between welcome and inclusion

The School of Dying Graces says costly lessons lead to priceless wisdom.

The Vanishing Word laments the loss of the logos.

America is not so generous, free, and innocent as it imagines itself.

An interview with Caroline Westerhoff, author of Good Fences: The Boundaries of Hospitality.

All the Music of the Bible surveys melodies from Creation on.

A longtime TV physician's tortuous search leads to an informal apologetic.

Christian bookstores hit hard by competition from Wal-Mart.

Searching for God Knows What: Stimulating ideas about the Christian life.

Tangled Up in The Bible translates Dylan's use of scripture.

The difference between meaning and truth.

A review of On Broken Legs: A Shattered Life, a Search for God, a Miracle That Met Me in a Cave in Assisi.

Some that stand out in this season's plenty.