The lunar landing was the seminal event of a decade that began with promise and ended with sorrow.

Kristen Arnett’s novel is about intimacy and wanting what is forbidden, about childhood and family, about absent parents and absent lovers, and about the secondhand self-destruction that can be wrought by ignoring cries of the heart.

Today’s public theologians can be found working alongside the most vulnerable members of society, contributing their deep understanding of Scripture, theology, history, ethics, liturgy and ministry in the real lives of communities.

“American Heretics: The Politics of the Gospel” is about like-minded liberal Christians joining forces in a ruthlessly Republican landscape where people talk more religion than they practice.

Science fiction writers continue to turn to religious characters, imagery and ideas to sort things out.

In 37 novels and two short story collections, Burke writes about characters who struggle to do good in a context of pervasive evil.