October 2019 – Heartlands

27 October 20197 March 2020Alex Joyner

An Antidote to Gutless Prayer: Dreaming Like Jesus with Rebekah Simon-Peter

The wonderfully-named Rebekah Simon-Peter looks around at mainline Protestantism, including The United Methodist Church of which she is a part, and sees some problems. It’s not just that the church is competing for attention in a post-Christian world with Sunday morning soccer practices. It’s not even the eight maladies she lists that include shrinking numbers, […]

18 October 201922 December 2019Alex Joyner

Into the Woods in Elmet

You might expect that there’d be a little bit of Beowulf in a book by a medieval studies scholar in York, England. Fiona Mozley’s debut novel adds some Heathcliff, too, for a touch of Yorkshire Moors gothic. But even if you can spot the forbears in Elmet, you probably won’t suspect what you’re getting in […]