Books
Jonathan Franzen writes a family that feels familiar
In Crossroads, a troubled associate pastor faces his deepest desires and doubts.
Our social contract needs to be renewed
Economist Minouche Shafik puts public policy at the heart of her vision.
What would it take for #CurriculumSoWhite to stop trending?
According to Bree Picower, it starts with the teachers—80 percent of whom are White.
A truth-telling child of Southern Methodism
Journalist John Archibald turns the spotlight on himself, his preacher father, and White Christians’ failures.
Sister Agatha roller-skates away from the church
The heroine of Claire Luchette’s novel realizes she became a nun to avoid being herself.
The stickers and boomers of Idaho’s Treasure Valley
Grace Olmstead has written a reverent ode to those who stick around.
The voice of God in Malamud, O’Connor, Updike, and Morrison
Peter C. Brown’s project is urgent and personal.
Diana Butler Bass’s love letter to Jesus
Freeing Jesus is not the kind of book we expect from someone with a PhD.
The beautiful faith of Rachel Held Evans
Like all of her work, her posthumous book is warm, wise, and intimate.
Monique W. Morris’s advocacy for Black girls and educational equity
The world sees Black girls as dangerous. Morris shows them that they are scholars.
Elegies for Jacki
Poet Peter Cooley logs the year following his wife’s death with courage and brutal honesty.
Hartmut Rosa says we’re running faster just to stay in place
The German sociologist’s theory of “resonance” offers an alternative: deceleration.
Rubem Alves builds altars of word and song
The bold visions of the grandfather of liberation theology
Understanding the biblical Herods
Bruce Chilton moves Herod the Great and Herod Antipas from backdrop to center stage.
Danté Stewart’s letter to America
Shoutin’ in the Fire is a testimony to Black liberation and love.
Elaine Enns and Ched Myers explore a theology of restorative solidarity
How can a people paralyzed by facing its history move forward?
Judaism for the World is the work of a master
Readers will relish the collected thoughts of Arthur Green, a historian and practitioner at the top of his powers.
Karl Barth’s affair with Charlotte von Kirschbaum wasn’t the only major conflict behind his theology
Christiane Tietz explores them all in the first full-length biography since Eberhard Busch’s in 1976.
Take & Read: American religious history
Five new books about myths and narratives that shape religion in the United States
Take & Read: New Testament
Five new books about Luke and Acts