Features
Why I need Advent
My True Story, by Aaron Neville
The Invisible Girl, by Parov Stelar Trio
One God, one Lord
The Ash & Clay, by the Milk Carton Kids
Jewish and pacifist: Jesus and the Old Testament
This Side of Jordan, by Mandolin Orange
Beautiful Africa, by Rokia Traoré
Hallowed ground: My civil religion vacation
Voices
Stephanie Paulsell
The view from above
Captain Phillips emphasizes the larger story: long before they meet, the lives of the pirates and the captain are already bound together.
Philip Jenkins
Reformation in Ethiopia
Since the 1970s, Ethiopia has seen something like what Europe saw around 1520: a movement based largely on growing access to the vernacular Bible.
Books
How we got here
Were liberal democracies ill equipped to manage the crises of the 1930s? It was a genuine question, as Ira Katznelson underscores in this engrossing book.
Blush, by Shirley Hershey Showalter
Inexhaustible Lewis
"You'll never get to the bottom" of C. S. Lewis, said Tolkien. The books published for the 50th anniversary of Lewis's death reveal the truth of this statement.
Darling, by Richard Rodriguez
Sober Mercies, by Heather Kopp
One in four American children—seven of my third-grader's classmates—experience something akin to what Heather Kopp describes in her recovery memoir.