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Five new books that address today’s theological challenges

Shakeshafte and Other Plays explores the messiness of language and meaning.

It’s probably not what you think.

I  still remember how annoyed I was the first time someone told me I should eliminate the phrase “bad neighborhood” from my vocabulary. I was a 24-year-old Chicagoan, with one graduate degree already in hand and six years of city living under my belt. By that point I had mostly forsaken the colorblind conservatism of my youth, which so clearly failed to make sense of the sharp inequalities inscribed into the urban landscape.

Reading Art Spiegelman’s Holocaust graphic novel with Christian eyes

And she does it in an unmistakable Caribbean accent that embraces, hugs, kisses, dances, cries, and rumbles out laughter.

The irony of banning a book about how we can’t escape our history.

Baltimore—from Frederick Douglass to Freddie Gray—informs his whole journey.

The First Nations Version of the New Testament is the brainchild of Terry M. Wild­man (Ojibwe and Yaqui), who served as the lead translator and collaborated with members of over 25 tribes across North America to make it a reality. This English language contextualization of the New Testament is the first of its kind, and it is meant for “English-speaking First Nations People,” “the entire sacred family,” and “all the churches . . .

The central character of Kazuo Ishiguro’s virtuosic 2021 novel is an “Artificial Friend” with a young girl’s body.