Books

The Longest Road, by Philip Caputo

Books in review

Fall books: Reviews

Our fall books issue's reviews include Greg Carey on Reza Aslan, Katherine Willis Pershey on Debbie Blue, Philip Jenkins on Diarmaid MacCulloch and more.

Silence, by Diarmaid MacCulloch

reviewed by Philip Jenkins

Brokers of Deceit, by Rashid Khalidi

reviewed by Mark Braverman

Consider the Birds, by Debbie Blue

reviewed by Katherine Willis Pershey

Sacred Scripture, Sacred War, by James P. Byrd

reviewed by Randall Balmer

The Battle Hymn of the Republic, by John Stauffer and Benjamin Soskis

reviewed by Edward J. Blum

Books in review

Essential books: Fall books

Our fall books issue includes annotated lists of essential titles on Revelation, evangelism and theodicy.

Revelation

selected by J. Nelson Kraybill

Evangelism

selected by Patrick R. Keifert

Flawed and fallen folk

"Fiction wasn't that big a leap for me," says Will Willimon. "We preachers are all 'artists' in the same sense that the gospel writers were."

by Lillian Daniel

Books in review

Take & read: Fall books

Our fall books issue includes annotated lists of new titles in New Testament, practical theology and global Christianity/American religious history.

God & suffering (theodicy)

selected by Thomas G. Long

Kill Anything that Moves, by Nick Turse

reviewed by Robert Westbrook

Global Christianity & American religious history

selected by Philip Jenkins and Grant Wacker

Looking for Palestine, by Najla Said

reviewed by Amy Frykholm

New Testament

selected by Matthew L. Skinner

Breach of Trust, by Andrew J. Bacevich

reviewed by Timothy Mark Renick

The Historical David, by Joel Baden

reviewed by James C. Howell

Practical theology

selected by Sharon G. Thornton