Books
Diane Glancy’s search for home
Glancy’s spirit is shaped as much by her exile from her tribe as by her ties to it.
Epistles of hope for our time
Randal Jelks and Shaka Senghor both write with realism but not fatalism.
A reminder of what’s worth saving
Elizabeth Weinberg’s call to climate action highlights the interconnection of all things.
A fresh translation of Nelly Sachs’s later poems
For Sachs, flight is multivalent: her flight from the Nazis, any refugee’s flight from oppression, God’s flight from God.
Traveling to find home
Tom Fate’s essays present an ethically complicated journey of discovery.
Post-evangelical healing
Charles Marsh writes beautifully about the anxiety instilled by his childhood faith—and the therapy it took to overcome it.
Grandparenting with faith
Marilyn McEntyre and Shirley Showalter are grounded and experienced guides.
How the Jerusalem temple fell
Josephus was tight with the emperor. Guy MacLean Rogers trusts his account anyway.
Finding church after religious trauma
Brooke Petersen gathers the stories of eight queer Christians who left churches—and found new ones.
Labor, land, and racism
Fifty years later, Wendell Berry revisits the themes he introduced in The Hidden Wound.
Where did the baby boomers go wrong?
Bill McKibben recalls his suburban childhood without a hint of nostalgia.
Following the long shadow of America’s original sin
Theologian Alison Benders takes an online pilgrimage through our country’s racial history.
Personhood beyond personalization
Technology can’t give us what we really want, says Andy Crouch.
Drawing God
A graphic novel about the Hebrew God, a collection of cartoons about Jesus, and a comic strip about the Holy Ghost
Reconciliation or supersessionism?
Karma Ben-Johanan traces the troubled history
of Jewish-Christian relations after Vatican II.
American “heathens”
Kathryn Gin Lum explores the entwining of racial and religious stereotypes in the United States.
The ER is a sacred space
Jay Baruch sees himself and other doctors as stewards of patients’ stories.
Imani Perry’s tour of the American South
South to America shows how one region’s beauty, losses, and inequities have shaped the country as a whole.
What does it mean to be a woman who doesn’t want children?
Erin Lane challenges maternal exceptionalism and its myths.
The American tradition of tearing down statues
Public monuments hold power. So does their destruction, says historian Erin Thompson.