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Take & Read: Global Christianity
Five new books about the lives and faith of Christians around the world
Take & Read: Practical theology
Five new books about the practice of ministry after our recent calamities
The holy simplicity of artist John August Swanson
His art is like the man who created it: joyful, loving, and gently curious.
The beauty of representation in children’s books
“I was a child who loved to read. But I didn’t see a lot of characters that looked like me.”
October 31, Ordinary 31B (Ruth 1:1-18)
The story of two grieving and economically insecure women is the hinge of the entire covenant history.
Miriam Toews explores religious trauma through the voice of a nine-year-old
Swiv isn’t an unreliable narrator, but she’s living in a world that feels unreliable.
For Haitian migrants, temporary protected status is not enough
TPS is a short-term solution to an enduring problem rooted in centuries of Haitian history.
Kate Bowler finds good news in hard truths
No Cure for Being Human offers a model for negotiating suffering with honesty.
Cooking my way through Africa’s east coast
Hawa Hassan and Julia Turshen offer a rare thing: an English-language cookbook of African food that isn’t from Ethiopia.
Job scrapes for answers (Job 1:1, 2:1-10)
It is as if every person who asks why bad things happen to good people takes a potsherd and starts scraping.
Have Steve Jobs and his gadgets made us less human?
It’s possible he created more problems than he solved.