Books

Together, the three volumes are five inches tall and weigh more than my children did when they emerged from the sea of their mother.

We all belong to a collective, evolutionary process in which we, like the ants, work together to build our community and preserve the species.

McMinn, a sociologist and co-owner of a small farm, presumes a certain level of privilege among her readers: choose heirloom seeds; eat only fair trade chocolate; avoid plastic food containers; and buy eggs “from a local source, if possible, and/or from chickens raised outside eating grass and bugs.” Still, this book is an enticing reflection on the sacramental nature of preparing and eating meals.

The Enlightenment view of autonomous human subjects is built into the law, so the criminal justice system floats on myths and superstitions.

The history of Palestinian Christian interpretation of the Old Testament reminds us of the nuanced, fragile nature of life in that region.

Microscopes reveal countless worlds inside the world, from cells to tiny structures within cells diligently performing mysterious tasks.

U.S. immigration policy has long used the imposition of trauma and the dynamics of fear as weapons.

Emptiness can alternatively mean too little or too much. It is sometimes unclear where emptiness is distinct from excess.

The history and struggles of the Nigerian movement known as Boko Haram are more complicated than they first appear.

Do pollsters create what they purport to study? Wuthnow examines the power and limits of polls and surveys on American religion.

We wish something would prove beyond doubt that Someone obliged us large-brained, bipedal primates with a breath of consciousness.

What humankind needs is a love that sticks around, a love that stays put, a love that hangs on. That’s what the cross is.

Are science and religion enemies or friends? Neither, says Peter Harrison—but they're both forms of virtue.

In American history, some lives have mattered; others have not. That difference fundamentally has been a racial one.