Books
A novel driven by kindness
There are many reasons to adore James McBride’s latest book.
Connecting the dots
Heather Cox Richardson guides us through serial attempts to overturn the liberal consensus in America.
Mitri Raheb takes on Christian Zionists (even the liberal ones)
The Palestinian theologian challenges Christians to examine their feelings about Israel—and to ask what their faith has to do with these feelings.
Trending topics: Israel and Jewish identity
Books on the identity of Israel
Marilynne Robinson goes deep on Genesis
Her new book is a single essay of 230 pages that probes beautifully into the mind and heart of God.
A magical world of daily bread
In Luci Shaw’s new collection of poems, ordinary objects trespass their boundaries.
Astrolabes, sundials, candles, and clocks
Gillian Adler and Paul Strohm explore the medieval preoccupation with time.
Can incarceration ever be just?
Philosopher Tommie Shelby pushes me to question my abolitionist convictions.
Overshadowed by the Twelve
Holly Carey turns up the brightness on the most faithful disciples in the gospels: the women.
Naps against capitalism
How can rest be a political act? Poet-theologian Tricia Hersey returns to this question often.
White Christian nationalism’s heritage of extremism
Bradley Onishi brings his scholarship and his personal experience together to analyze where the church went wrong.
Seeking the Divine in the secular age
The modern mystics profiled in Bernard McGinn’s new book don’t experience ecstatic visions, supernatural miracles, or paranormal phenomena.
Edwards for all of us
George Marsden’s new book returns to the old project of making Jonathan Edwards modern.
Reading scripture through the experience of disability
Julia Watts Belser sees in the Torah a God who is in love with the creative possibilities of difference.
A refugee’s lonely heart
Beth Nguyen’s second memoir is a deep dive into the void of a mother’s absence and the silence surrounding it.
De-commodifying time
Jenny Odell argues that we need to get back in touch with our preindustrial sense of time.