| CONTENTS | ||
| Editor’s Notes | Charles Hefling | 1 |
| Address | ||
| “By the Working of the Holy Spirit”: The Crisis of Authority in the Christian Churches | Nicholas M. Healy | 5 |
| Articles | ||
| The Work of Loneliness: Solitude, Emptiness, and Compassion | Douglas Burton-Christie | 25 |
| Faith and Doubt in Rose Macaulay’s The Towers of Trebizond | David Hein | 47 |
| Reconsidering a Bold Proposal: Reflections, Questions, and Concerns Regarding a Theology of Confirmation | Joe Goodwin Burnett | 69 |
| Towards a New Theology of Confirmation | Kathryn Tanner | 85 |
| Poetry | ||
| A Taos Hymn | Catharine Savage Brosman | 95 |
| Station Four (Jesus Meets His Holy Mother) | C. Dahlen | 97 |
| A Shepherd’s Tale | Elizabeth Lavers | 98 |
| Penance | Sheryl Slocum | 99 |
| Book Reviews | ||
| Frederick D. Aquino, Communities of Informed Judgment: Newman’s Illative Sense and Accounts of Rationality | Michael C. Martin | 101 |
| Rosalind Brown, Being a Deacon Today: Exploring a Distinctive Ministry in the Church and in the World | Edwin F. Hallenbeck | 104 |
| Terence Cuneo, Religion in the Liberal Polity | Ron Dart | 105 |
| Brian Davies and Brian Leftow (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Anselm and Giles E. M. Gasper, Anselm of Canterbury and His Theological Inheritance and David S. Hogg, Anselm of Canterbury: The Beauty of Theology | Joseph H. Pearson | 107 |
| Heidi Epstein, Melting the Venusberg: A Feminist Theology of Music | Wendy Dackson | 110 |
| Marion Grau, Of Divine Economy: Refinancing Redemption | Molly Claire Haslam | 113 |
| Martin Greschat, Martin Bucer: A Reformer and His Times | Gordon A. Jensen | 115 |
| James Henry Harris, The Word Made Plain: The Power and Promise of Preaching | Michael Battle | 116 |
| Mark Patrick Hederman, Love Impatient, Love Unkind: Eros Human and Divine | L. William Countryman | 117 |
| Bruce Kaye, Reinventing Anglicanism: A Vision of Confidence, Community, and Engagement in Anglican Christianity | Charles Hefling | 120 |
| Michael Kessler and Christian Sheppard (eds.), Mystics: Presence and Aporia | Joseph Molleur | 121 |
| Jim Kitchens, The Postmodern Parish: New Ministry for a New Era | John L. Kater | 122 |
| Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook, A House of Prayer for All Peoples: Congregations Building Multiracial Community | David T. Gortner | 124 |
| Maurice Lee, Jr., The “Inevitable” Union and Other Essays on Early Modern Scotland and Pamela E. Ritchie, Mary of Guise in Scotland, 1548-1560 and Rowan Strong, Episcopalianism in Nineteenth-Century Scotland | Alan P. R. Gregory | 126 |
| William S. Craddock Jr., Restreaming: Thriving in the Currents of Retirement | Linda Watt | 130 |
| Scott M. Lewis, What Are They Saying about New Testament Apocalyptic? | Andrea Spatafora | 131 |
| Karen A. McClintock, Preventing Sexual Abuse in Congregations: A Resource for Leaders | Beth Marie Murphy | 133 |
| Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore, Let the Children Come: Childhood from a Christian Perspective | Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook | 134 |
| Robert L. Millet, A Different Jesus? The Christ of the Latter-day Saints | Peter A. Huff | 137 |
| J. Warren Smith, Passion and Paradise: Human and Divine Emotion in the Thought of Gregory of Nyssa | Thomas C. Ferguson | 138 |
| J. M. R. Tillard, I Believe, Despite Everything: Reflections of an Ecumenist | John Gibaut | 140 |
| Christopher L. Webber, Welcome to Sunday: An Introduction to Worship in the Episcopal Church | James Farwell | 141 |
| John H. Westerhoff III, Living Faithfully as a Prayer Book People | J. Barrington Bates | 143 |
| Karen-Marie Yust, Real Kids, Real Faith: Practices for Nurturing Children’s Spiritual Lives | Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook | 144 |
| Gleanings | ||
| Readings at the Intersection of Culture and Faith: Resources for the Debate over Darwin | Catherine M. Wallace | 147 |