Books In Review: Saumya Roy lets Mumbai’s garbage pickers speak for themselves Castaway Mountain gives voice to families who have been impoverished by the whims of the powerful. by Sandhya Rani Jha December 30, 2021
TV Unorthodox and the captivity narrative tradition to which it belongs To find an authentic life, do you have to lose your religion? by Amy Frykholm December 29, 2021
From the Editors The forced migration of Native Americans pushed them to inferior land A recent study illuminates the economic cost of land theft. What might reparations look like? December 28, 2021
Critical Essay The book of Exodus includes a story about reparations for slavery White Americans aren’t the Israelites; we’re the Egyptians. Maybe we should follow their lead. by Matthew Schlimm December 27, 2021
Screen Time The ultrarich and their total depravity The White Lotus is part of a growing subgenre that probes extreme wealth as moral deformity. by Kathryn Reklis December 17, 2021
Books In Review: How 20th-century mainline Protestants shaped immigration policy And how that policy shaped the 21st-century mainline church by Robert Shaffer December 15, 2021
First Person How should I pray for the climate? I followed COP26 from a distance. Other Christians showed up in Glasgow and asked God to intervene. by Liuan Huska December 14, 2021
From the Editors The Russian troops at the Ukraine border are part of a larger ploy What can the US do to change Putin’s political calculus? December 13, 2021
Critical Essay The creative resistance of Native American Christian art The Christian Thunderbird is once more taking flight. by Matthew J. Milliner December 8, 2021
Books In Review: The complicated Lindbergh It’s hard to strike the right balance in a biography of the heroic aviator and antisemitic activist. Christopher Gehrz succeeds brilliantly. by Grant Wacker December 2, 2021