| Contents | ||
| Editor’s Notes | Ellen K. Wondra | 579 |
| Articles | ||
| The Joy of Feeling Close to God: The Practice of Prayer and the Work of Accompaniment | Douglas E. Christie | 585 |
| Friendship, Love, and Mass Shootings: Toward a Theological Response for Gun Control | Lyndon Shakespeare | 607 |
| Idol Food, Same-Sex Intercourse, and Tolerable Diversity within the Church | Jon C. Olson | 627 |
| Immigration and the Episcopal Church: An Ever-changing Face | David L. Danner | 649 |
| Practicing Theology | ||
| The Episcopal Church and Climate Change: The First Twenty-Five Years | Margaret Bullitt-Jonas | 673 |
| Expulsion, Intimacy, Christian Narrative and Practice, and the Kingdom of Heaven at Hand | James P. Bartz | 687 |
| On Poetry and Theology | ||
| Piercing the Silence | Roger Ferlo | 695 |
| Poetry | ||
| Gray Scale | Richard Schiffman | 701 |
| In Advent Dark | Peter Makuck | 702 |
| Overflow | Patricia Vermillion | 703 |
| Caxton | David W. Landrum | 704 |
| Message to Mary | Mary Harwell Sayler | 706 |
| The King Wore Two Shirts | Charles Hughes | 707 |
| Book Reviews | ||
| Jane Barter Moulaison, Thinking Christ: Christology and Contemporary CriticsandDon Schweitzer, Jesus Christ for Contemporary Life: His Person, Work, and Relationships | Craig Hovey | 709 |
| Jill Peláez Baumgaertner, ed., Imago Dei: Poems from Christianity and Literature | Wendy Vergoz | 712 |
| Marcia J. Bunge, ed., Children, Adults, and Shared Responsibilties: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Perspectives | Jana Bennett | 716 |
| Anthony J. Ciorra and Michael W. Higgins, eds., Vatican II: A Universal Call to Holiness | Timothy W. O’Brien, SJ | 719 |
| L. William Countryman, Calling on the Spirit in Unsettling Times: Anglican Present and Future | Frank T. Griswold | 722 |
| C. Andrew Doyle, Unabashedly Episcopalian: Proclaiming the Good News of the Episcopal Church | Daniel London | 723 |
| Brett Foster, The Garbage Eater: Poems | Marjorie Maddox | 725 |
| Stephen E. Fowl, Ephesians: A Commentary | Bokyung Kim | 728 |
| Konrad Hammann, translated by Philip E. Dervenish, Rudolf Bultmann: A Biography | Matthew Thollander | 731 |
| A. J. Joyce, Richard Hooker and Anglican Moral Theology | Brad Littlejohn | 734 |
| Karen Kilby, Balthasar: A (Very) Critical Introduction | Kevin Taylor | 737 |
| Pablo Martínez de Anguita, Environmental Solidarity: How Religions can Sustain Sustainability | Jacob Sherman | 740 |
| Edward Morgan, The Incarnation of the Word: The Theology of Language of Augustine of Hippo | Travis E. Ables | 742 |
| Simon Oliver, Karen Kilby, and Thomas O’Loughlin, eds., Faithful Reading: New Essays in Theology in Honour of Fergus Kerr, OP | Robert MacSwain | 745 |
| Aristotle Papanikolaou, The Mystical as Political: Democracy and Non-Radical Orthodoxy | Brock Bingaman | 746 |
| Frederick Quinn, Welcoming the Interfaith Future: Religious Pluralism in a Global Age | Michael Ingham | 749 |
| Jan Ross, ed., The Works of Thomas Traherne, Volume V: Centuries of Meditations and Select Meditations | Elizabeth Dodd | 752 |
| John F. A. Sawyer, ed., The Blackwell Companion to the Bible and Culture | Monika Bereczki | 753 |
| Joseph Sterrett and Peter Thomas, eds., Sacred Text–Sacred Space: Architectural, Spiritual and Literary Convergences in England and Wales | Regina Walton | 755 |
| Peter Tyler and Richard Woods, eds., The Bloomsbury Guide to Christian Spirituality | Pegram Johnson III | 757 |