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Daily Bread
and Butter
By Jana K. Riess
With more Americans than ever identifying themselves as spiritual but not religious and the category that we refer to as
religion comprising a broader range of books, many publishers, booksellers, librarians, and authors find the religion label
limiting or imprecise. In response to these cultural and industry changes, and to better express what the category is
about, PW is renaming its religion coverage Spirituality and Religion. Youll see this from now on in our editorial about
this segment of the publishing industry.
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ers of faith, says Jeff Crosby, InterVarsitys associate publisher and director of
sales and marketing. I believe that as the
boomer population ages and the millennials become even more the focus of a
publishers readership, that type of devotional product will not fare well.
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Susan Stiffelman
The Parents
Are Alright
Years ago counselor and family therapist
Susan Stiffelman had an epiphany: I can
get further [with kids] by working with
the parents, she thought. This inspired
her to write Parenting Without Power
Struggles (Atria, 2010). In her new book,
Parenting with Presence: Practices for Raising Conscious, Confident, Caring Kids
(Apr.), from the new Eckhardt Tolle Edition imprint of New World Library, she
writes from the premise that to parent
well, parents first need to be gentle with
themselves.
Stiffelman, who taught herself Hindi
and practices meditation, laid the
groundwork for Parenting with Presence in
her first book, by picturing the good parent as the calm, confident captain of the
family ship. This parent neither abdicates responsibility nor uses bribes and
threats in an attempt to control.
Parenting with Presence emerged from a
series of telesummits that Stiffelman
held with people ranging from chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall to Pulitzer
Prizewinning author Marianne Williamson. Inspired by their wisdomand
quoting in the book luminaries such as
Arianna Huffington and the neuropsychiatrist Daniel SiegelStiffelman
guides parents in how to stay grounded
as they navigate the inevitable upheavals
and meltdowns that come with the job.
It is very difficult to raise children,
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J. Todd Billings
Hope in the
Midst of Fear
When our dreams crumble, our idols
can crumble with them, theologian J.
Todd Billings says, when asked about
being diagnosed with a rare and incurable form of cancer, which he writes
about in his memoir, Rejoicing in Lament:
Wrestling with Incurable Cancer and Life in
Christ (Brazos, Feb.). I didnt want to be
on the road of cancer, but many others
have rockier roads than my own. And
yet, in prayer, in returning to scripture
and classical sources in the Christian tradition, my book points to a hope both in
and beyond my cancer story, the story of
God in Christ.
Billings, research professor of reformed
theology at Western Theological
Seminary in Holland, Mich., and an
ordained minister of the Reformed
Church in America, has made significant
theological contributions over the years.
Union with Christ: Reframing Theology and
Ministry for the Church (Baker Academic,
2011)his study of the basic tenet of
Christian faith and its effects on social
justice, mission, and observant life
won a 2012 Christianity Today Award of
Merit in the Theology/Ethics category.
But when he received the news of his terminal illness at age 39, Billingss world
was shaken, and he faced the most personally difficult theological questions of
his life.
Gods story does not annihilate our
personal stories, but God incorporates us
into a larger drama in which darkness
will not have the final word, Billings
says. This leaves us with raw, unanswered questions. But it also points us
toward a durable hope.
In Rejoicing in Lament, Billings says he
wrestles with the problem of evil, prayer
for healing, the meaning of death and
loss, but he also expresses a durable
hope via prayers of both sorrow and
thanksgiving. He writes of how life has
led him toward hope in Gods promises,
rather than down a road of endless questions and simplistic answers. We need
to avoid easy, theoretical answers and
always keep in mind the basics: listen to
and grieve with the suffering. Dont just
pray for a quick fix, but pray in lament
and petition, he says.
The book is part autobiography, part
cultural commentary, and includes others stories of joy and grief. Billings shows
how human sorrow can bring people
closer to their faith. We want to look
successful and competent, he says. Ive
come to see how the ravaging enemy of
cancer spoils our pretensions of control.
But my hope is that my true life is now
hiddenin union with Christeven if
my life appears to be going off the rails.
Kathleen Samuelson
sigrid estrada
Reaching
Across the
Divide
Janis Heaphy Durham didnt have herself in mind when she decided to write
The Hand on the Mirror: A True Story of Life
Beyond Death (Grand Central, Apr.). She
wrote it for her husband Max Besler, who
died in May 2004.
The nature of what occurred after
Max died was so extraordinary that I had
to do my part, says Durham, who has
since remarried. I believe Max found a
ence as a caregiver for her current husband, Jim Durham, who was diagnosed
with the disease in spring 2013 and continues to fight it.
Death has taught me a lot about life,
Durham says. I dont waste time anymore. I dont judge people like I used to.
And I pay closer attention to everyday
moments.
Ann Byle
Dayle A. Friedman
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Embracing
Age
Contemporary
culture greets
aging with fear
and loathing, Dayle A. Friedman says.
We dread dying, and anything that
hints of it. Rabbi Friedmanfounder of
Hiddur: The Center for Aging and Judaism at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical
College in Wyncote, Pa.is the author
of Jewish Wisdom for Growing Older: Finding Your Grit & Grace Beyond Midlife
(Jewish Lights, Mar.). We idealize independence, and cannot fathom how one
could be dependent and yet whole,
Friedman says. Jewish tradition, on the
other hand, has a healthy respect for the
wisdom that comes with life experience.
The tradition expects those who are older
to share of their perspective as guides and
nurturers of the future.
Friedman trains, consults, and provides spiritual guidance at her
Philadelphia-based practice, Growing
Older. She teaches that Jewish tradition
doesnt sugarcoat the inevitability of
hardships that come with aging, but
rather does recognize the possibility of
becoming more sage as the body weakens. She says, We are not defined by
our physical prowess, nor is our worth
contingent on health and independence.
Friedman says that once people
acknowledge their sadness and grieve as
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Harvey Cox
| Profiles
Hollis Research
Professor of
Divinity at Harvard until his retirement in 2009later
wrote many books, including Religion in
the Secular City (S&S, 1985), on Pentecostalism and liberation theology; Many
Mansions (Beacon, 1988), on world religion; and The Future of Faith (HarperOne,
2009). Though Cox is not a biblical studies scholar, in 2011, when Roger Freet,
then his editor at HarperOne, asked him
to write a popular guide to biblical criticism, he agreed, and it became his newest
book, How to Read the Bible (HarperOne, Apr.). I really enjoyed writing it,
Cox says. One of the most enjoyable
things was talking to people in the field.
Coxs family didnt read the Bible at
home, but he grew up hearing the stories
in Sunday school. He thought of the
Bible as a collection of stories until he
discovered, while in seminary, that it can
be approached critically as a historical
document. Although hes certainly not a
fundamentalist, Cox wondered how to
reconcile his narrative reading of the
Bible with a critical/historical one.
In September 1963, during his
involvement with the civil rights movement (he was an early supporter and
friend of Martin Luther King Jr.), Cox
spent a night with protestors in a smalltown Southern jail. Some of the protestors read from the Biblemainly from
Exodus and the Gospelsas if the stories
were meant specifically for them and
their situation. In that moment, Cox
realized that the Bible could be read
another waynot only as a beguiling
collection of stories or a quasi-historical
document to be analyzed, dated, and
classified but also as a sacred book that
has meaning for his own life and that
speaks to todays world.
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Memoir, for one. Kate Braestrup, whose 2007 memoir, Here If You
Need Me, established her voice, looks again at turning points in life
in Anchor and Flares: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hope, and
Service, which chronicles her emotional battle between faith and
fear after her eldest son joined the Marines.
Also, spiritual advice and consolationespecially when given by
acclaimed writer and Benedictine nun Joan Chittister. Her Between
the Dark and the Daylight: Embracing the Contradictions of
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Cosmology and theology embrace in A God That Could Be Real:
Spirituality, Science, and the Future of Our Planet, by Nancy
Ellen Abrams, who argues for an emergent God.
On a more mundane plane, Gods Bankers: A History of Money
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womens issues are the subject of The Mother and Child Project:
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activists working to improve the lot of women and children in places
where women die in childbirth and children die young.
There are many hundreds of books out there on How to Read the
Bible, but only one is by Harvey Cox, whose life and long career in
public religion have made him a deeply learned guide. Coxs interpretive work here is a great gift, according to PWs starred review.
Informed commentary on the Bible is found in Strong as Death
Is Love: Song of Songs, Ruth, Esther, Jonah, and Daniela
Translation with Commentary, by Robert Alter, who continues
his work of masterful translation. And Bewilderments: Reflections
on the Book of Numbers, by Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg, goes back
to the biblical Book of Numbers, as the author continues to plumb
the spiritual and psychological depths of sacred text.
Pope Francis gets in a word or threeon Easter, of coursein
Walking with Jesus: A Way Forward for the Church. Believers
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