Books
A chaplain, his cerebral palsy, and the philosophy that guides him
Stephen Faller’s series of wise reflections on being alive
Take & read: New books in ethics
In the Anthropocene era, do ethics matter?
The miracles of Julie Yip-Williams’s life and death
A cancer memoir about a life sustained by improbable events
A personal narrative of addiction and the culture that birthed it
Leslie Jamison weaves cultural critique into her memoir about alcohol and creativity.
25 years after the Rwandan genocide, Denise Uwimana tells her story
A memoir about survival and the theological questions it raises
Miriam Toews imagines her way into an insular community grappling with sexual assault
In her new novel, women in a Mennonite colony plot their own liberation.
Should Christians hunt animals?
A book of essays offers an array of perspectives for and against.
Why I’m reading Nyasha Junior
If we want our biblical interpretation to align with the fullness of who Christ is, we need new lenses.
How Rachel Held Evans bears the beauty and the burden of reading the Bible
The creative retellings in Inspired model an account of inspiration that is as much a spiritual practice as a religious doctrine.
The slaveholding mistress and her purse strings
Stephanie Jones-Rogers dismantles the stereotype of white female passivity in the pre-Civil War south.
The Christian virtues and the art of dying
9 values that can shape the end of life in a cruciform way
Immunotherapy’s believers and skeptics
Some scientists couldn’t quite explain what they were seeing. Others literally couldn’t believe it.
St. Fred
Maxwell King’s Mr. Rogers biography is more of a hagiography.
Jill Lepore’s book is the civics course Americans need
At the heart of her narrative is the fate of two political ideals: liberty and popular sovereignty.
Catholicism and the secular state
The intertwining of the Catholic Church and politics, from World War I to Trump
Ross Gay’s fierce, radiant joy
To love the world as an American black man is a subversive act.
Fiction that makes prisons visible
How three novelists depict the reality of incarceration
A personal discipline of Talmud study
Ilana Kurshan shows how the practice of Daf Yoni gave structure to a life made formless and void.
Horror and hope in the face of climate change
Jim Antal calls for a green reformation among churches.
How the American opioid crisis got so big
Two journalists unpack the history, the scale of the epidemic, and who’s to blame