Robert Ellsberg is the publisher and editor-in-chief of Orbis Books. He has written numerous books on saints, including All Saints: Daily Reflections on Saints, Prophets, and Witnesses for Our Times, Blessed Among All Women, The Saints' Guide to Happiness, Modern Spiritual Masters, and Blessed Among Us: Day by Day with Saintly Witnesses, which is based on his daily entries for Give Us This Day. A former managing editor of The Catholic Worker, he has written extensively about the life and legacy of Dorothy Day…
An interview with Ben Patterson…
Nelson Kraybill is a pastor and theologian who served as scholar-in-residence at Bethlehem Bible College in Palestine (2022–2023), as president of Mennonite World Conference (2015–2022), and as president of Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary (1997–2009). He taught high school in Puerto Rico, pastored churches in Vermont and Indiana, was program director at the London Mennonite Centre in England (1991-1996), and has taught widely on issues of mission, allegiance, early church, and the book of Revelation.…
An exploration of the roots of polarization, and strategies for overcoming it…
Ted discusses navigating polarization: finding common ground, storytelling, empathy, deep listening, promoting peaceful coexistence…
by Laura Van Dyke and Stephen Dunning…
by David Anonby…
C. Christopher Smith is the founding editor of The Englewood Review of Books and author of Slow Church: Cultivating Community in the Patient Way of Jesus (co-authored with John Pattison); Reading for the Common Good, How the Body of Christ Talks: Recovering the Practice of Conversation in the Church; along with others. In this interview, and especially from his perspective as an editor, Chris shares about…
What is an editor's perspective on polarization, harmoney, empathy and reading?…
2024 is the 101 year anniversary of Buber's book I and Thou.…