Books
Salman Rushdie returns to the scene
In Knife, the novelist goes back to Chautauqua, where he was nearly killed in a 2022 attack.
A matter of love, not certainty
In Carl Hughes’s hands, Kierkegaard helps to distinguish Luther’s desire for certainty from his appreciation for mystery.
Poems for a difficult life of faith
Like Paul, Spencer Reece has journeyed to see what he would suffer as a servant of Christ.
The story of Richmond’s “cathedral of the Confederacy”
Christopher Graham’s book focuses on the racism of one Virginia congregation. It will challenge all those who cause harm in the name of virtue.
Inside the lives of everyday workers
Mark Larson’s collection of soulful interviews is a worthy successor to Studs Terkel’s 1974 classic Working.
The legacy of “religionization”
Marianne Moyaert provides a helpful but somber history of the ways European Christians have imagined people of other faiths.
The moral cost of rechargeable batteries
In the DRC’s cobalt mines, desperate workers earn a few dollars a day to help power our digital lives.
Some good press for Paul
Biblical scholar Susan Grove Eastman brings the apostle into conversation with today’s world.
Simone Weil’s anti-fascist blueprint
Ros Schwartz’s translation of The Need for Roots makes Weil’s masterpiece feel as urgent today as it was in 1943.
Did the mainline church pave the way for Christian nationalism?
Brian Kaylor and Beau Underwood plumb history to show how the Protestant mainline has intertwined church and state interests.
The role of judgment in Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s sophomore novel
Most reviews of Long Island Compromise blame the characters’ misery on their family’s wealth. But the reality of their predicament is far more serious.
Unlocking the gates of Genesis through poetry
Jessica Jacobs breathes new life into ancient voices.
The religious practice of community organizing
Aaron Stauffer offers a nuanced study of the radical social gospel and broad-based organizing.
The magic of Amy Leach’s world
The essayist playfully contrasts the apocalyptic, fundamentalist worldviews of her childhood with the teeming abundance of life that she found later.
Elie Wiesel’s defiant faith
Journalist Joseph Berger documents the writer’s work, his activism, and the belief in God that he never fully renounced.
How a boy band star from Boston became the beloved Imam Tay
Taymullah Abdur-Rahman demonstrates that friendship across religious difference can elicit personal and social transformation.