Books
Apocalypses all around us
Martha Park unearths surprising connections between the natural and the supernatural, the material and the ineffable.
Illuminating the icons
Theologian Eve Tibbs’s book on Eastern Orthodox iconography is accessible, enlightening, and beautifully illustrated.
Weeping with the prophets
Richard Rohr begs readers to journey from anger to sadness to compassionate love.
Writing through grief
In her new memoir, Miriam Toews explores connections between suicide, silence, and writing.
Aura et labora
In Robert Baird’s debut novel, a religion scholar’s young son starts emitting a holy glow that might or might not be real.
Punk disciples
Theologian Robert Cady Saler considers Death to the World, an Eastern Orthodox movement that is both thoroughly Christian and thoroughly punk.
Hope in the face of racist backlash
Aran Shetterly celebrates Greensboro massacre survivors Nelson and Joyce Johnson as great moral leaders.
Mennonites and the long shadow of ethnic identity
Denominations often struggle to separate faith from ethnicity. Hyung Jin Kim Sun has experienced this firsthand.
Reclaiming “church politics”
Ross Kane argues that politics is about congregational life and governance—not just statecraft.
A river runs through us
Robert Macfarlane helps us appreciate that life is not a possession. It is a process we participate in.
Preaching outside the box
Donyelle McCray takes readers on a tour of the edges of homiletics, exploring Black Americans’ gospel proclamation in various forms.
What does White Christian nationalism have to do with yoga?
In his new book, Stewart Home analyzes the wellness-to-fascism pipeline.
The self-appointed cowboy messiah
Rachel Wagner traces the way frontier fantasies and apocalyptic faith fuel today’s gun-obsessed culture.
What is English Christianity?
Peter Ackroyd sees a special historical relationship between the development of a distinctively English sensibility and that of the English church.
When Frances Perkins took on the bigots
According to historian Rebecca Graham, FDR’s labor secretary saved tens of thousands of refugees from the Nazis—and narrowly avoided impeachment.
Priced out
Patrick Condon builds on existing inequality research to focus on one big problem: the price of urban land.