Books
The complex world of one family farm
Ted Genoways overturns assumptions not only about industrial agriculture but also about the farmers who are part of it.
The New Testament in the strange words of David Bentley Hart
Greek and English do not work the same way. So what does it mean to create a literal translation?
Coffee table treasures
Most books are easy for me to give away. Not beautiful books about biblical manuscripts or Martin Luther’s legacy.
A civil debate about religious freedom
John Corvino, Ryan Anderson, and Sherif Girgis agree: religious liberty is good, discrimination is bad, and the clash between these values is complicated.
The history and myths that made Russia
How did Russia's longstanding sense of grievance morph into a civil religion?
Serpents and salvation
Glimpses into the faith of snake-handling holiness Christians
The sparkle of James McBride's stories
Five-Carat Soul is filled with hilarious storytelling, unusual characters, and stark realities.
The burdens and blessings of intentional community
What happens when a group of radical idealists tries to live together?
The Vietnam War was worse than just a tragic miscalculation
Why are Americans always cast as the well-meaning innocents and others as the bad actors?
A conversation in transition
Two new books help us talk about what it means to be transgender in a changing world.
The vocation of Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau's beautiful writing, biographer Laura Dassow Walls shows, is scripture waiting to be heard.
Poetry grounded in place
Paul Willis's poems reveals epiphanies in the midst of everyday life.
American Decalogue
Jenna Weissman Joselit reveals how the Ten Commandments have shaped U.S. law and identity.
A child’s faith before and after Sandy Hook
Tain Gregory was new to Sandy Hook Elementary School when the mass shooting happened, but the faith that helped him respond had been a long time in the making.
The value of apocalypse
An end-of-the-world scenario, whether scientific or religious, should reorient us—but toward what?
A novel that charts a spiritual transformation
H. K. Bush's tale revolves around the challenges of a Western academic's encounter with the East.
The stubborn love and inflexible mercy of Dorothy Day
More than a memoir, Kate Hennessy's book about her grandmother is a participant biography written from the inside out.
Two old friends have a lively conversation about getting old
Martha Nussbaum and Saul Levmore draw from philosophy, literature, economics, and public policy to ruminate on aging.
The focus and function of The Witness of Preaching
Some of the book's strengths are also its limitations.
The Witness of Preaching after three decades
To teach preaching, I need the witness of Tom Long—and others, too.