Books

Our fall books issue includes the following annotated lists of top new titles: New Testament, practical theology and world Christianity/American religion.

An annotated list by Beverly Roberts Gaventa.

An annotated list of top new titles.

An annotated list of top new titles.

I've been savoring Hemingway's short stories. He was a religious seeker if not some kind of believer.

Our fall books issue includes annotated lists of top titles on the book of Job, atonement and children's ministry.

An annotated list of top titles on the book of Job.

An annotated list of top titles on atonement.

An annotated list of top titles on children's ministry.

Christian Smith offers a way between the idea that young adults are the great hope of our nation and the idea that they are crazed idiots.

My father was diagnosed with Alzheimer's at age 80. Had I read these three new books, I might have been more helpful to him in that difficult moment.

Sociologist Claude Fischer is unhappy with historians' failure to provide a grand narrative of American history.

Katherine Clay Bassard's book on the use of scripture by African-American women writers begins with Balaam's ass and the Song of Songs. One is compelled to keep reading.