Books

Martha Nussbaum says we don't. She's wrong.

Four teenage girls dance their way into friendship and maturity.

When Dylann Roof murdered the Charleston nine at a Bible study in June 2015, his intent was “to start a race war.” He didn’t succeed.

How can we live well after 40? asks Barbara Bradley Hagerty. She could have consulted the wisdom traditions.

What's more important: calculating the logic of the Trinity, or doing theology across cultures?

More jobs would help, says J. D. Vance. So would a stronger work ethic.

Does democracy create good neighbors? Or is it the other way around?

Protestants were deeply involved in the gay rights movement—even before the Stonewall Riots.

Mark Stenberg takes aim at Christian certainty. I'm not certain that's our problem.

The "traditional family" used to provide stability and comfort. Was it all an illusion?

The delight I felt while reading this book needs further interrogation, because its stories deal with troublesome subjects.

This collection offers a rich range of life-giving words from a beloved theologian-novelist-preacher-speaker-essayist and encourager.

Bacevich provides another case of the fraught dream of managing history that Reinhold Niebuhr critiqued.

Baylor transformed itself from a regional Baptist teaching institution into an internationally recognized Protestant research university—but not without scandal.

Nature reveals itself as ruptured, as already profaned. To rest into a landscape is to be drawn into an adulterated history.

Faith is formed in us by the Spirit and the life of the church. It renews our elemental confidence and creates our disposition toward the world.

Nineteenth-century agrarians believed that community is more important than the individual and solidarity is more important than profit.

All living things are touched by divine grace—and caught up together in movement toward union with God.