Books

Fran Quigley offers a richly informed study of what ails Haiti and what a few dedicated activist lawyers are doing about it.

In the latest issue of the Century, Philip Jenkins writes about how the veneration of Mary cuts across religious difference in Egypt. Egypt was the place where Mary first lit up the imaginations of Christians, but apparently her appeal is not limited by culture or religious heritage. Lately I’ve come across a couple of enchanting books that illuminate this for me.

Robert Barron’s grasp of the complex development of David’s character in 2 Samuel is unsurpassed. And his references to history and literature are more than adornment.

Erin Lane wants to help millennials and those who love them understand the real countercultural impulse of the church.

Are the people of 21st-century Israel the chosen ones of Genesis to whom Yahweh promised the land in eternal covenant? Walter Brueggemann gives a nuanced answer.

Scott Dannemiller narrates his family's year of simpler living. By the end, he acknowledges that "stuff" is not bad.

Amy Kittelstrom examines the overlapping ideas, personalities, and relationships of seven figures associated with what she calls the American Reformation.

Brian McLaren, Sara Miles, Chris Wiman, and others make their selections.

In two books on Afghanistan, Anand Gopal and Carlotta Gall each point to the absurdity of America's longest war.

When you read children’s literature you expect to smile at the quirky characters fumbling to figure out their growing independence. You might expect to cry as you watch characters face the pain of growing up. You don’t expect to be confronted by current events like a refugee crisis—and inspired to imagine the kind of society we could be even in the face of terror and fear.