Books
What if forgiveness were unthinkable?
Paul Kahn’s memoir of his family is a cautionary mirror for our cultural moment.
A male scholar looks at the Bible’s women
According to James McGrath, unless Jesus was able to learn from others, he wasn’t truly human.
From Dante to Tina Fey, a romp through history with Jesus’ Beatitudes
Blessed are those who read this wise and lovely book.
A novel about baseball, wealth, and human frailty
Christopher Beha’s characters find themselves in pits, and the way out is not remotely clear.
Addressing educational inequity means loving other people’s children
Courtney Martin invites progressive parents to reckon with racial justice.
Lauren Redniss’s Oak Flat is about the conflict over sacred Apache land in Arizona
It’s also about a conflict within the order of the universe.
Can John Rawls help Christians understand justice?
Two new monographs provide religious entry points into the political philosopher’s thought.
An introduction to Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Michelle Duster situates her influential great-grandmother in the history of Black life in America.
Georgetown was built on the backs of enslaved people
Reparations for their descendants are a necessary, imperfect beginning.
A landscape scarred by the trauma of eugenics
Elizabeth Catte traces the haunting history of forced sterilizations in Central Virginia.
A Palestinian evangelical’s supersessionism
Munther Isaac’s critique of the Israeli government is perfectly fair. But why does he also need to critique Judaism?
How do parents pass along their faith to children?
Christian Smith and Amy Adamczyk’s sociological study offers some clues.
The good news in John Green’s reviews of Diet Dr Pepper and sunsets
He says they’re memoirs, but I’m onto him. The Anthropocene Reviewed is more like a collection of sermons.
Lisa Donovan tells the stories behind the recipes
Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger exposes the misogyny within the restaurant industry.
In a secular age, Bonhoeffer’s “religionless Christianity” is evergreen
Peter Hooten considers the concept in relationship to the theologian’s entire body of work.
For BLM cofounder Alicia Garza, organizing is about doing the work no one wants to do
Someone has got to do the dishes.
A psychological thriller about four Israeli women and their biblical role models
Sarah Blau’s protagonists are childless by choice. Herein lies the danger.
Living a simplified life in France
Eric Freeze and his family moved to Nice—in order to spend less and live better.
Rachel Gross wants to blur the distinction between Jewish culture and Jewish religion
Being Jewish goes beyond the synagogue.
Drawing close to Howard Thurman
Two new books invite us to learn from what others have loved about the civil rights icon.