Marilynne Robinson discusses and reads from her book Gilead with James Wood.

Earl Ellington is now the interim pastor. But he has his eyes on becoming the permanent one. The Head Deacon has come up with a scheme to create a reality show that will make the position permanent. Broken Saints Act 2 continues the Urban Christian Fiction series as we determine who will lead this church and where it will go.

“Swimming in Gilead” by Cassie Premo Steele takes us through the journey of a woman who, empowered to express herself through the feminist spirit of a writing group, explores what it means to be a woman and an ally in an era of uncertainty. In the summer of 2020 as the pandemic was raging, Cassie joined a group of six women—three from Canada and three from the United States, four white and two women of color, and five lesbians and one straight—to...

A Study Guide for Marilynne Robinson's "Gilead," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

This important work is an excerpt from the book A Time for Sorrow: Recovering the Practice of Lament in the Life of the Church (Hendrickson Publishers, 2019). Following the murder of George Floyd in May 2020, many in the United States and around the world are crying out for justice for our African American brothers and sisters. Emmett G. Price III, director of the Institute for the Study of the Black Christian Experience at Gordon-Conwell Theological...

The novel is a Science Fiction book that describes a fictitious scientific method to convert gay people to heterosexuality. It describes a highly religious billionaire that endows a gifted psychological scientist to find means to convert his son. The novel brings all the recent scientific discoveries that prove that gayness is caused by the effect of genes and hormones. The novel also tries to persuade homosexuals to refrain from proliferating through...

Reeling from the combined pressure of an ATF crackdown and an unprovoked murder, the Sons face a far more deadly threat from a cold-blooded enemy who will stop at nothing to drive them out of Charming for good. As Jax and Clay square off over questions of leadership and loyalty, lines are drawn and chaos reigns as the club threatens to destroy itself from the inside out.

For as long as people have been working to bring peace to areas suffering long-standing, violent conflict, there have also been those working to spoil this peace. These "spoilers" work to disrupt the peace process, and often this disruption takes the form of violence on a catastrophic level. Galia Golan and Gilead Sher offer a broader perspective. They examine this phenomenon by analyzing groups who have spoiled or attempted to spoil peace efforts...