Books
An NGO’s complex ethics
Journalist Ross Halperin tells the story of two friends whose work in Honduras finds them bearing the high costs of discipleship.
In love with a fantasy
Amanda McCracken thought she’d been unlucky in love. Instead she’d been faithful to the idea of longing itself.
Something resembling God
Adam Hughes explores the far side of certainty and what happens when belief begins to dissolve.
A memoir that cannot find the words
Journalist Lauren Markham finds herself searching for language adequate for grief on a planetary scale.
Facing the world with Edith Stein
How do we get through the darkest of nights? For Stein, the answer is clear and unwavering: We uphold God’s truth, always.
Creativity as alchemy for the world
A collection of lectures-turned-essays urges us to imagine a world beyond empire.
Whose antiquity?
Curtis Dozier argues that White nationalists often don’t even have to distort Greco-Roman history in order to misuse it.
The church is disappearing from the middle
Religious identity in the US now follows partisan affiliation, says demographer Ryan Burge. But congregations could still be places where that sorting gets undone.
A Jewish exploration of Christian theology
Alan Brill offers both scrutiny of our doctrines and a word of correction to his fellow Jews.
The philosophers vs. the mystics?
Jamie Smith’s talents are rare and his insights clear. But his rejection of either/or thinking is so stark that it creates a false binary of its own.
Paul among his neighbors
A new anthology situates the epistles within the full religious texture of the ancient Mediterranean—gods, magic, and all.
A 21st-century Metaphysical poet
D. S. Martin’s new collection brilliantly exploits his bond with the poems of John Donne.
Angels and fascists in 1939 London
Francis Spufford’s time-traveling fantasy asks what we’d sacrifice to rewrite the past.
Thirteen seasons
Daniel Cooperrider trades the four seasons for the less familiar lunar calendar, stepping into the rhythm of creation.
Digging in the Alabama dirt
Alexis Okeowo lovingly turns over their home state’s history as one might dig through the layers of a land plot.
Putting a price on Indigenous lives
William Kiser’s sweeping history tracks three centuries of bounty hunters paid to kill and mutilate Native Americans.