Books
Putting a price on Indigenous lives
William Kiser’s sweeping history tracks three centuries of bounty hunters paid to kill and mutilate Native Americans.
Hope is mandatory
Rachel Goldberg-Polin’s son Hersh was held captive in Gaza for 332 days before Hamas killed him. Her memoir of grief is also about the faith that has helped her endure it.
Religious scripts for dying
Travis Pickell explores the moral burden placed on those who face end-of-life medical decisions but lack communal support.
The graven image of growth
Practical theologian Andrew Root believes churches are bowing to the never-ending demand for production.
Migration as care
Gabrielle Oliveira’s ethnographic study analyzes US immigration policy by centering the voices of children and educators.
Self-possession is justice work
Austin Channing Brown writes with honesty and tenderness about exhaustion, community, and the struggle to remain whole.
Midwestern Ethiopia
Kai Parker charts the rise of Ethiopianism, a movement that stemmed from the 1896 Battle of Adwa—and changed Chicago forever.
Why the South Bronx burned
Bench Ansfield argues forcefully that the arson wave of the 1970s was about racism, capitalism, and the insurance industry.
Antisemitism is more American than we want to admit
Historian Pamela Nadell traces antisemitism in the US from the colonial era to today—and the Jewish resilience that has risen to meet it every time.
Is dysphoria both virus and cure?
Philosopher Paul Preciado’s critique of “petrosexoracial capitalism” chronicles a world that’s mutating in real time.
The bipartisan religion of the US border
Borders are not only political spaces, argues Elizabeth Shakman Hurd. They are also sacred objects.
A. Muia writes like she’s inventing a new language
Her spellbinding novel in stories transforms Baja California into a dreamscape of violence, longing, and hard-won grace.
A rabbi’s unlikely path
Angela Buchdahl writes honestly about her accomplishments, her hardest moments, and the routine difficulties of showing up in Jewish spaces with a Korean face.
The faiths that formed the United States
The religious landscape of early America was far from homogenous, argues Matthew Sutton.
The sirens in our pockets
Three recent books share a common thread, one that echoes concerns anticipated by Marshall McLuhan. What’s at stake, they argue, is nothing short of our humanity.
The heist of Buncombe Street United Methodist Church
Will Willimon’s story of his childhood congregation contrasts the salt-of-the-earth people who formed him with the conservative minority that took over later.
A desert liturgy in verse
Poet Diana Woodcock blends Muslim and Christian sensibilities into a devotional reckoning with a wounded planet.
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A vampire and a Lutheran pastor in Blackfeet country
Stephen Graham Jones’s theologically inflected horror novel just might be his masterpiece.
From wellness to well-being
“One reason these wellness practices are popular is because they’re powerful and they remake us,” says religious ethicist Liz Bucar.