Books
Unrigging the human game
We need to stop playing to win, says Bill McKibben, and start playing to keep the game going.
Catherine Keller’s political theology for the end of the world
Our era’s poet theologian begins by retranslating Paul: “the remaining time is contracted” (1 Cor. 7:29).
A novel about the chasms between people
Can we cross them? Is it worth it?
Sacred impulse, poetic form
For Sofia Starnes, poetry is the language of faith.
The anguish and ecstasy of the ark’s matriarch
Sarah Blake’s surrealist novel about Naamah—Noah’s wife—is mesmerizing.
Jesus’ earliest followers were Jewish, too
Paula Fredriksen challenges popular assumptions about the first generation of Christians.
What book gives you a powerful glimpse of the Christian life?
10 writers respond.
A prodigal son story on the island of Trinidad
Claire Adam’s debut novel is animated by a complicated landscape of family.
Serene Jones’s memoir poses as many theological questions as answers
Theology is story, and Jones is a rousing storyteller.
Tressie McMillan Cottom asks who black women’s voices are for
Cottom interrogates her own story loudly enough for others to hear themselves in it.
Take & read: New books in theology
To speak words of grace, we must first name the powers and principalities that hold us captive.
Put Ijeoma Oluo and Crystal Fleming on your antiracism reading list
Two new books offer an education—with grace and humor.
A radically new vision of mainline church leadership
Helping people think differently in changing times
Take & read: New books in Old Testament
Climate catastrophe, economic inequality, and the way we treat our dead
A chaplain, his cerebral palsy, and the philosophy that guides him
Stephen Faller’s series of wise reflections on being alive
Take & read: New books in ethics
In the Anthropocene era, do ethics matter?
The miracles of Julie Yip-Williams’s life and death
A cancer memoir about a life sustained by improbable events
A personal narrative of addiction and the culture that birthed it
Leslie Jamison weaves cultural critique into her memoir about alcohol and creativity.
25 years after the Rwandan genocide, Denise Uwimana tells her story
A memoir about survival and the theological questions it raises
Miriam Toews imagines her way into an insular community grappling with sexual assault
In her new novel, women in a Mennonite colony plot their own liberation.