Books
Migration through a child’s eyes
Javier Zamora’s memoir chronicles the harrowing solo journey he made from El Salvador to the US at age nine.
Listening to—and translating—the voices of asylum seekers
In Alejandra Oliva’s new memoir, she describes how her body becomes an archive of migrants’ stories.
The complicated women of mainline Protestantism
Margaret Bendroth tells the stories of mid-20th century women who fought patriarchy from within the church.
Take & Read: American religious history
New books in American religious history
An unlettered theologian
Nancy Koester’s biography captures the remarkable ministry of Sojourner Truth, who could not read or write.
The genealogy of selfhood
From the Renaissance to Kim Kardashian, Tara Isabella Burton tells a story of limitless, ruthless self-creation.
Sister Holiday takes the heat
Margot Douaihy’s New Orleans is a fever dream. Her protagonist is a queer, punk nun who is all in on her vocation.
How secularism feels
Donovan Schaefer sets out to correct the misrepresentation of secularity as the realm of pure reason.
When Judaism became Judaism
Archaeologist Yonatan Adler argues that widespread, ordinary observance of the Torah did not take place until the Hellenistic period.
A war correspondent’s view of conflict in the US
Luke Mogelson turns his keen powers of observation on the worsening polarization in this country.
Earth martyrs
Elizabeth O’Donnell Gandolfo makes readers question the depth of their own commitment to righteousness.
Russell Moore speaks truth to his community
The Christianity Today editor and former Southern Baptist leader is gravely concerned about the soul of US evangelicalism.
Intersex at Bible college
In telling a student’s story, Cynthia Vacca Davis captures the complicated nature of coming of age as an intersex person.
The gates of evangelicalism
Isaac Sharp traces the story of the groups that find themselves outside, pushed there by the conservative White men standing guard.
Christians should read books
Jessica Hooten Wilson helps us to see reading as a form of holy play.
An unfolding drama of awakening
John Haught dismantles the impoverished reasoning of most contemporary cosmology.