Books
Augustine’s African heritage
Catherine Conybeare’s new biography reveals a bishop formed by two worlds, two languages, and a church struggling to define itself.
Bearing witness in three lines
Frustrated with the limits of journalism, former war correspondent Rick Black turned to haiku.
A book that tells a story beyond its pages
Jason Mott’s wildly inventive novel depicts two Black American writers, an ocean apart. It’s up to the reader to decide how they’re related.
You can’t go home again
But you can remember it. Margot Singer’s essays explore how.
From comedy club to convent
How an insecure stand-up comic became a moderately famous Episcopal nun
A lethal article of faith
Veteran journalist William Kole sets out to understand White evangelical devotion to the Second Amendment.
The monsters we make
Historian Surekha Davies exposes humanity’s long-standing practice of turning difference into monstrosity.
The power of charismatic narrative
Why has the authority of American elites been swept aside? Historian Molly Worthen argues that it’s because they failed as storytellers.
Ministry and other callings
Kristen Bentley’s research indicates that there is no single right way to be a bivocational pastor.
When ableism and racism intertwine
Black autistic pastor and disability scholar Lamar Hardwick shows how ideas around race and disability can cost people their lives.
The social gospel of the streets
Sean Dempsey traces the moral imagination that guided faith-based activists in Los Angeles through five decades of justice work.
The relief people need
David Zahl focuses on sharing a gospel that’s unapologetically about the grace of God.
Where God waits in line
In 2019, Cristina Rathbone immersed herself in a tent camp at the border in Juárez, Mexico.
Who gets to define Christianity?
David Congdon links postliberal theology to the exclusionary politics of the Christian right.
Apocalypses all around us
Martha Park unearths surprising connections between the natural and the supernatural, the material and the ineffable.
Illuminating the icons
Theologian Eve Tibbs’s book on Eastern Orthodox iconography is accessible, enlightening, and beautifully illustrated.
Weeping with the prophets
Richard Rohr begs readers to journey from anger to sadness to compassionate love.
Writing through grief
In her new memoir, Miriam Toews explores connections between suicide, silence, and writing.
Aura et labora
In Robert Baird’s debut novel, a religion scholar’s young son starts emitting a holy glow that might or might not be real.
Punk disciples
Theologian Robert Cady Saler considers Death to the World, an Eastern Orthodox movement that is both thoroughly Christian and thoroughly punk.