Though it’s categorized as a collection of essays, one might, at first glance, mistake Conversations with Birds as a coffee-table book of whimsical shelf art. Wrapped in a selection of images from the famed paintings of John James Audubon, the book’s smooth exterior provides a stunning entryway into its pages of compelling and poetic prose.
An associate pastor on my staff once completed a two-year master’s degree in theology specific to her area of ministry practice. When I tried to congratulate her, she waved me off, in tears, pointing to my collection of Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics and asking, “Why didn’t they make me read books like that?”
The Ghanaian theologian offered new methodological approaches in the wake of imperialism.
Sofia Samatar’s memoir takes readers through a landscape of prismatic identities and wandering passions.
Opening with the proto-feminist Puritan poems of Anne Bradstreet (1612–1672) and closing with the reorienting poems of Joy Harjo of the Muskogee Nation (1951–), Chicago-born poet and literary critic Edward Hirsch serves us with new readings of 40 American poets. Drawing on his life of teaching and writing, Hirsch places the work of the poets in chronological order. A representative poem precedes informal and authoritative comments on each chosen poet.
Millennial pastor Brandan Robertson aims in this book to help Christians “to begin a conversation about our own privilege and how we might utilize it as a tool to lead us into a more faithful obedience to the way of Jesus by working for the common good of our neighbors.” He grounds this conversation in scripture, interpreting privilege through the kenosis hymn quoted in Philippians 2:5–11.
David Zahl maps the conservative/liberal binary according to distinctions between high and low anthropologies.
It was mostly politics, argues historian Neall Pogue.
Heather Blurton explains the origins and legacy of an outrageous antisemitic lie: the fable of William of Norwich.