Arts & Culture
Tammy Faye Bakker’s story and Mark Driscoll’s in conversation
Church celebrity is complicated.
The voice of God in Malamud, O’Connor, Updike, and Morrison
Peter C. Brown’s project is urgent and personal.
Elegies for Jacki
Poet Peter Cooley logs the year following his wife’s death with courage and brutal honesty.
The sounds of my mother’s typewriter
Lying in bed and listening, I heard devotion. And creativity. And mystery.
The holy simplicity of artist John August Swanson
His art is like the man who created it: joyful, loving, and gently curious.
The beauty of representation in children’s books
“I was a child who loved to read. But I didn’t see a lot of characters that looked like me.”
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.
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.