Books
Should Christians hunt animals?
A book of essays offers an array of perspectives for and against.
Why I’m reading Nyasha Junior
If we want our biblical interpretation to align with the fullness of who Christ is, we need new lenses.
How Rachel Held Evans bears the beauty and the burden of reading the Bible
The creative retellings in Inspired model an account of inspiration that is as much a spiritual practice as a religious doctrine.
The slaveholding mistress and her purse strings
Stephanie Jones-Rogers dismantles the stereotype of white female passivity in the pre-Civil War south.
The Christian virtues and the art of dying
9 values that can shape the end of life in a cruciform way
Immunotherapy’s believers and skeptics
Some scientists couldn’t quite explain what they were seeing. Others literally couldn’t believe it.
St. Fred
Maxwell King’s Mr. Rogers biography is more of a hagiography.
Jill Lepore’s book is the civics course Americans need
At the heart of her narrative is the fate of two political ideals: liberty and popular sovereignty.
Catholicism and the secular state
The intertwining of the Catholic Church and politics, from World War I to Trump
Ross Gay’s fierce, radiant joy
To love the world as an American black man is a subversive act.
Fiction that makes prisons visible
How three novelists depict the reality of incarceration
A personal discipline of Talmud study
Ilana Kurshan shows how the practice of Daf Yoni gave structure to a life made formless and void.
Horror and hope in the face of climate change
Jim Antal calls for a green reformation among churches.
How the American opioid crisis got so big
Two journalists unpack the history, the scale of the epidemic, and who’s to blame
A northerner explores Christianity in the American South
James Hudnut-Beumler profiles churches, ministries, and movements with long-held traditions and potential for change.
Disability and the good life
Theologian Shane Clifton rethinks virtue ethics from his wheelchair.
A 40-year-old takes 40 hikes
How Roger Owens walked his way through a midlife crisis of faith
Walter Rauschenbusch then and now
William Pitts examines the era when the Social Gospel was new—and controversial.
Trying to make amends
In Chigozie Obioma’s new novel, forgiveness is no light matter.
Baby steps toward Christian unity
Allen Hilton profiles churches that are uniting people across ideological differences.