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Listening with our ears, not our mouths
Books
Pedagogy of the embodied
Mark Jordan shows us Aquinas—and God—in the flesh.
The hero of Trevor Noah’s story
If you think the Daily Show host is funny, you should meet his mother.
Questions in Genesis
A book of essays asks, is the Bible literature? How is a blessing like an oath? And what if Eve was just hungry?
A cure for liberalism?
John Milbank & Adrian Pabst consider Western society’s many problems and offer a prescription: virtue.
Poems of witness
Molly McCully Brown recovers the lives of women at an institution notorious for its eugenics program.
Macy Halford’s two worlds
A New Yorker staffer investigates the evangelical book that will not let her go.
A president walks into a Buddhist purgatory
The new George Saunders novel turns a crazy idea into a deeply moving story.
The many colors of betrayal
When does compromise descend into treason or apostasy?
Dostoevsky and Flannery O'Connor help Marcel Proust edit his long sentences
Who I'd invite to my writers' dinner party
Anne Lamott, Ernest Hemingway, and a Gospel writer commiserate about revelation and disclosure
Who I'd invite to my writers' dinner party
Lincoln, Luther, and the prophet Jeremiah lament our pathos-filled world
Who I'd invite to my writers' dinner party
Mary Magdalene is every woman
Marie Howe’s poems present Magdalene in many forms, contemporary and ancient.
Preaching in the promised land
After the Great Migration, some black preachers addressed the issues their white social-gospel counterparts avoided.
Wisdom from Augustine, Calvin, and Bonhoeffer on theological education
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Marcella Althaus-Reid recounts her dreams from the afterlife
Who I'd invite to my writers' dinner party
American historians on grit, revolutions, and the topsy-turviness of our era
Who I'd invite to my writers' dinner party
A Deuteronomist redactor meets a recorder of Islamic texts
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The line between here and there
Two novels explore what happens when wars persist and borders are permeable.
Gregory Ellison II, Michelle Alexander, and Matthew Desmond share a red vinyl booth
Who I'd invite to my writers' dinner party
Take & read: Old Testament
An annotated list of the best new titles
Ida B. Wells, James Baldwin, and Octavia Butler imagine a new future
Who I'd invite to my writers' dinner party
Take & read: Theology
An annotated list of the best new titles
Laughing at what’s not funny
Like Jason Micheli, I have incurable cancer. His book helped me find humor in it.
Take & read: Ethics
An annotated list of the best new titles
Dorothy Sayers, Charles Williams, and W. H. Auden discuss their unconventional love lives
Who I'd invite to my writers' dinner party
Emily Dickinson and Søren Kierkegaard joke about considering the lilies
Who I'd invite to my writers' dinner party
Departments
Living the truth, not just believing it
Door Project artists from The Learning Tree, Derek Tuder and Astoshia Young
The Baptist exception
Glorious things of thee are tweeted
Airstrikes won’t solve the crisis in Syria
News
Scholars re-create the sounds of worship at an ancient Greek church
Church of England sees its cathedrals at risk
Hermitage sees surge in laypeople who want a monastic experience
In rural Canada, churches connect by welcoming Syrian refugees
Priest martyred in Guatemala to be beatified by Catholic Church
