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The Heavenly Tableby donald ray pollockdoubleday, 384 pages, $27.95 A book by Donald Ray Pollock is always an entertaining ride, by turns riveting, hilarious, revolting, and poignant. But reading...

I suppose it is appropriate for a book on eternal life to be long. Given the ground Alan Segal, a professor of Jewish studies at Columbia University, covers, Life...

A few years ago, the journalist Philip Nobile wrote an article near the first anniversary of the death of Princess Diana in which he raised what he termed “an...

Can God Be Trusted? Faith and the Challenge of Evilby john g. stackhouse, jr.oxford university press, 190 pages, $25 The problem of evil is a perennially baffling intellectual puzzle...

Christians Among the Virtues: Theological Conversations with Ancient and Modern Ethics By Stanley Hauerwas and Charles Pinches University of Notre Dame Press. 230 pp. $29.95 Virtue is making a...

The author of this book did not intend to write it. Originally this material was supposed to be merely an introductory section of a one-volume history of hell in...