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A Place at the (S)table

Mia Anderson’s versatility as an actor was evident at the book launch of her latest work, O Is for Christmas: A Midwinter Night’s Dream, at St. Thomas’s Anglican Church in Toronto.

Looking for White Smoke

Conclave is a dramatic film about the election of a new Pope that offers an entertaining, if overwrought, portrayal of this highly secretive process.

Discover Anew the Light and Glory of God

I found these volumes on Christmas and Epiphany to offer a depth of insight in slim volumes on seemingly well-known anchors in the calendar.

Aribert Munzner’s Playfully ‘Ignorant’ Davening

Aribert Munzner claims that his drawings and paintings are not his “works” but rather his “play.”

We Are a Christmas People

Andrew Gant demonstrates that solid academic scholarship can bud forth with content that is eminently — indeed, joyfully and artfully — accessible to readers.

Lord Harries on George Herbert in Advent

Lord Harries draws attention to George Herbert’s awareness of his sinfulness, and rightly points out that this is something modern people, including many modern Christians, would like to avoid thinking about.

On the Hunt for Relics

M.T. Anderson: “I wanted to write a historical novel with the love of a good story, incidental detail, and willful inaccuracy demanded by the European Middle Ages.”

Learning Balance from ‘Inside Out 2’

Post-pandemic, most of us are dealing with anxiety at a new level.

Munzner’s Playfully ‘Ignorant’ Davening

According to the great 20th-century rabbi and theologian Abraham Joshua Heschel, there are two types of ignorance: one dull, lazy, and uninquisitive, the other...

Asserting, Not Explaining, a Changing Mind

The Widening of God’s Mercy Sexuality within the Biblical Story By Christopher B. Hays and Richard B. Hays Yale, 288 pages, $28 When announced earlier this year, this...

Holding to Christ

Wounded I Sing From Advent to Christmas with George Herbert By Richard Harries SPCK, 144 pages, $14.99 Each year around Michaelmas I begin building my Advent/Christmas to-do list,...

The Remains of St. Nicholas’s Day

Nicked By M.T. Anderson Pantheon, 240 pages, $28 Nicked is a great-hearted, mischievous novel. The story, the characters, the theological exploration nicked my heart straightaway. M.T. Anderson deftly weaves...

Naim Ateek: Eyewitness in the Holy Lands

This is an autobiographical book that shares the remarkable life and memories of this extraordinary theologian.

Bartholomew’s Care for All the Churches

Bartholomew writes in a consistent register that drives home his care for the well-being of all parts of the global community in a common family.

Christian Nationalism in the Mirror

What makes Baptizing America a distinctive contribution is the authors’ assertion that Christian nationalism is not limited to white evangelicals and Pentecostals, or to recent decades.

Baptism and Public Life

Michael Hopkins provides an extended practical commentary on the rite of Holy Baptism in the Book of Common Prayer.

Josef Pieper: Beginning with the Whole

A Catholic German philosopher who lived from 1904 to 1997, Josef Pieper shaped theological luminaries like Joseph Ratzinger and Hans Urs von Balthasar.

Can the Irreverent Be Reverent?

Deadpool learns what it may mean to be “Marvel Jesus.”

Protestant and Catholic Newman

In this clearly written book, T.L. Holtzen explains why the complicated debates about the doctrine of justification before and after the Reformation still matter today.

Recovering Ties That Bind

Transforming Friendship Investing in the Next Generation Lessons from John Stott and Others By John Wyatt IVP, 176 pages, $13.99 John Wyatt’s book is not only timely, but it...

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