Books
Cheap grace in South Africa
Eve Fairbanks traces the experiences of three South Africans to diagnose the country’s unrealized promises.
Is relating to God a fundamental need?
Biblical theologian Christa McKirland argues that it is.
Michelle Huneven’s homage to church life
A novel posing as a memoir that is really a sympathetic comedy
Can patriotism be redeemed?
Theologian Richard Mouw calls for a God-chastened love of country.
Becoming a people together
Gordon Lathrop roots his case for in-person worship in scripture and Lutheran tradition.
Missionary of grief
Musician Nick Cave talks to journalist Seán O’Hagan about his son’s death and the pull of love.
A health-care system emergency
ER doctor Thomas Fisher writes with moral clarity—and a whiff of hopelessness.
Bringing Zwingli out from the shadows of Luther and Calvin
Bruce Gordon masterfully weaves together the world that shaped the least-remembered Reformer and the ways he shaped that world.
David Bentley Hart’s apocalyptic view of tradition
Hart believes that John Henry Newman and those quick to invoke him rely too much on a gaze backward into the past.
Creation and new creation
A collection of essays invites artists and
theologians into conversation.
In the dance with technology, who leads?
Jacques Ellul diagnosed the problem. Paul Patton and Robert Woods offer some solutions.
A 21st-century Polish epic
Based on historical events, Olga Tokarczuk’s massive novel is simultaneously heartbreaking and comic.
A biography of Psalm 91
The deeper Philip Jenkins takes us, the more layered and fascinating the story becomes.
Reading the Bible with Love Sechrest
In Race and Rhyme, associative hermeneutics finds its roots in deep, communal, and highly developed wisdom.
The great and strange John Donne
Katherine Rundell’s biography offers something new: she matches the poet’s energy with her own.
Church vs. injustice, not church vs. state
Ilsup Ahn believes that a different conception of church could have stopped, among other things, housing segregation.
Another look at the 1619 Project
I approached the project’s new anthology with some skepticism. Its contents quickly dispelled my doubts.
In the face of climate change, how do we tend to our spirits?
In true agrarian fashion, Norm Wirzba suggests starting small.
Who gets to live on the land?
Historian Jo Guldi argues that land occupancy struggles aren’t just about fairness; they’re about humanity’s survival.
How some churches fail to provide a lifeline
Tiffany Brooks offers much more than just another exvangelical anger manual.