: It may be difficult to accept the existence of paranormal activity, until you realize you already do. Read more

In our Western post-Christendom, pluralistic context the time has come to move beyond denunciation to understanding and more complex forms of engagement. In these ways the mutants and mystics can find room for dialogue on the fantastic with the followers of the first century Superhero from Nazareth as they discuss their competing Super-Stories. Read more

In Mutants & Mystics, Jeffrey Kripal has fearlessly put down on the page the connections between his personal life and his professional work—connections that all scholars possess but prefer either to not to admit or (much of the time) remain blissfully unconscious of. Read more

"God in a Brothel" isn’t about nameless, faceless children. It’s about real children – children with names, personalities, and potential as specific and precious as those belonging to the children you and I know. But, unlike the kids in our lives, these children have been kidnapped or sold into slavery by adults who should be their protectors. Read more

Daniel Walker gives much to disturb and goad us to action and prayer. The question falls to us as to whether or not we can handle this truth. Read more

Reading Wicks most recent book, Streams of Contentment, has inspired me to reflect on the creative interplay of contentment and restlessness, and acceptance and vision, in spiritual growth. Read more

As part of our roundtable conversation on Monsters in America, we invited our bloggers to ask whatever question they wanted of the author ... such as: "Why Monsters? Why Now?" Scott Poole's answer is, well, awesome. Read more

All Is Grace is not a thick book in terms of the number of pages, but it is a heavyweight. Imagine a cross between The Diving Bell and The Butterfly, Tuesdays with Morrie, and a transcript of the best and worst moments in the life of Johnny Cash (with a few slices of The Jersey Shore reality show thrown in) – and you’ll have a sense of the flavor of it. Read more

In a world in which so many people, self-righteously separate the saved and unsaved, insiders and outsiders, patriotic and unpatriotic, Brennan Manning tosses out every dualism, proclaiming the simple truth, that wherever we are on life’s journey – whether we are seeking to follow the straight and narrow, or running as fast as we can from God through substance abuse or infidelity, we will eventually run into God’s arms, and they will save us even from ourselves. Read more