Features
The kingdom of heaven is like the Brooklyn Public Library
The beauty of representation in children’s books
Albert J. Raboteau changed both American religious studies and African American studies
Books
The beautiful faith of Rachel Held Evans
Like all of her work, her posthumous book is warm, wise, and intimate.
Monique W. Morris’s advocacy for Black girls and educational equity
The world sees Black girls as dangerous. Morris shows them that they are scholars.
Elegies for Jacki
Poet Peter Cooley logs the year following his wife’s death with courage and brutal honesty.
Hartmut Rosa says we’re running faster just to stay in place
The German sociologist’s theory of “resonance” offers an alternative: deceleration.
Rubem Alves builds altars of word and song
The bold visions of the grandfather of liberation theology
Understanding the biblical Herods
Bruce Chilton moves Herod the Great and Herod Antipas from backdrop to center stage.
Danté Stewart’s letter to America
Shoutin’ in the Fire is a testimony to Black liberation and love.
Elaine Enns and Ched Myers explore a theology of restorative solidarity
How can a people paralyzed by facing its history move forward?
Judaism for the World is the work of a master
Readers will relish the collected thoughts of Arthur Green, a historian and practitioner at the top of his powers.
Karl Barth’s affair with Charlotte von Kirschbaum wasn’t the only major conflict behind his theology
Christiane Tietz explores them all in the first full-length biography since Eberhard Busch’s in 1976.
Take & Read: American religious history
Five new books about myths and narratives that shape religion in the United States
Take & Read: New Testament
Five new books about Luke and Acts
Take & Read: Global Christianity
Five new books about the lives and faith of Christians around the world
Take & Read: Practical theology
Five new books about the practice of ministry after our recent calamities
Miriam Toews explores religious trauma through the voice of a nine-year-old
Swiv isn’t an unreliable narrator, but she’s living in a world that feels unreliable.
Kate Bowler finds good news in hard truths
No Cure for Being Human offers a model for negotiating suffering with honesty.
Cooking my way through Africa’s east coast
Hawa Hassan and Julia Turshen offer a rare thing: an English-language cookbook of African food that isn’t from Ethiopia.
Departments
American Christians tend to imagine a God who thinks and looks like us
Gospel of Mark, by Roberts Rurans
The war for Africa’s holy land
The sounds of my mother’s typewriter
For Haitian migrants, temporary protected status is not enough
News
Pope acknowledges right-wing critics
Muslim groups boycott Hilton over bulldozed Uyghur mosque
Women making strides in Black denominations amid hesitancy
United Methodist conference sells land back to Native people
From luxury stays to ‘champing,’ churches adopt pandemic-era Airbnb models
Albert Raboteau Jr., influential Black religion scholar, dies at 78
Cho Yong-gi, Korean founder of world's largest megachurch, dies at 85
