God's work of redemption continues in the redeemed. An excerpt from Cross-Shattered Christ.

A new book renews a classic musical meditation.

A meditation on Franz Joseph Haydn's The Seven Last Words of Christ.

An excerpt from Holy Week Sonnets.

Rethinking Jesus' words. "Woman, behold thy son … behold thy mother." An excerpt from The Seven Last Words from the Cross.

An interview with Steven M. Wise

The "religious bigot" who brought down slavery.

Mini-reviews of Gilead: A Novel, The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience, You're Not Alone: Healing Through God's Grace After Abortion, and Beyond Jabez: Expanding Your Borders.

Author says Muslims are troubled by our morals more than our politics.

Blink makes the case for intuitive judgment.

An engaging theologian questions the Jesus of modern scholars.

A history of the American movie industry.

Mini-reviews of Calvinism in The Las Vegas Airport, Street Saints, Heaven and, The Seven Last Words from the Cross.

A judgmental assessment of judgmentalism is, predictably, full of contradictions.

Author stands by critical book.

State of Fear is about more than controlling the weather. Duh, it's media ecology.

Set in Mexico, Anita Desai's latest novel is a compact but multilayered tale of pilgrimage.

Two books document the dangers of mixing church and state.

John Gardner, Martin Amis, and the ethics of the novel.