Books

The reversals in this book aren’t easy. There is nothing sentimental or giddy about them. They are real. They are ordinary.

Politi's account reveals much of what happened among the cardinals in the Sistine Chapel on those days in March 2013.

Yes, we’re surrounded by ubiquitous light, but its mysteries have not been wholly conquered.

Max Porter’s debut novel, which hovers between poetry and prose, illustrates the ways in which grief can be simultaneously violent and gentle.

To lionize the missionary’s courage, Muslims were cast as implacable adversaries and served as the quintessential foil.

The apocalypse, it seems, is cultural and psychological rather than historical. One can only hope that this theory is right.

The binding constraint on progress against hunger and malnutrition is weak political commitment.

From our 21st-century perch, Wil­liam Shakespeare seems more reclusive than ever.

If your mother is drowning in one location and two strangers in another, should you save your mother or the two strangers?

Ebenezer Kinnersly illustrates the depth of the controversy over outward manifestations of inner religious experience.

United Church of Christ pastor and blogger Emily Heath is a self-described binary-smashing, trinitarian, gender-nonconforming Reformed theologian.

Confessions is not primarily about Augustine at all; it is about God’s activity in the particularity of Augustine’s life.

Luther understood the “aesthetics of the book” but not the economics of the book. He never made a pfennig from his publications.

The sacred is experienced in liminal spaces where profound silence happens. But behind the silence is activity.

The Spirit’s loving, life-giving, transformative power—Divine Eros—connects us, moves within us, and can heal the wounds of our division.

Hart’s vision is at once allegorical, moral, and eschatological. Christ, married to the church, draws us into deeper life with God.

Williams was at once theologian, mystic, poet, novelist, editor, playwright, and critic, not to mention (possibly) a living Anglican saint.

How might Christian communities take up war-making and peacemaking as acts of discipleship?

The social value we give to caring for other people is not simply a women’s issue: it concerns men, women, and the whole society’s common good.

Our spring books issue's reviews include Rachel Marie Stone on Marilynne Robinson, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove on Matthew Desmond, Lawrence Wood on Mary Rakow, and more.