‘Soul’ and the Purpose-Driven Generation
Disney Pixar’s latest film reminds us that life is meaningful beyond achieving our goals or saving the world.
Reading While Not Black
How a group of white church planters learned to listen to African Americans and build a better Christian community.
In Exile from Our Words
Stanley Cavell’s “Excerpts from Memory.”
Book Buyer Beware? It’s Christian Fiction.
Controversy brews over labels on Christian novels.
Wilson’s Bookmarks
Brief reviews of ‘The Pietist Impulse in Christianity,’ ‘John in the Company of Poets,’ and ‘What I Hate.’
God and the Detectives
Religious mysteries: a perplexing case.
Marilynne Robinson Takes on Bad Science Writers
The novelist wades into the religion-and-science debate with ‘Absence of Mind.’
Marilynne Robinson, Narrative Calvinist
John Calvin has given the Pulitzer Prize-winning author a way of seeing that imbues her novels with the grandeur of God.
God & Math
Oil and water, or gin and tonic?
Cradling the World
Annie Dillard’s The Maytrees.