Books
4 Bible storybooks that leave space for children’s imagination
In God's kingdom, sometimes less is more.
Anjali Sachdeva is wise, insightful, and just getting started
In Sachdeva's debut story collection, magical realism meets a keen eye for character.
The beauty of Anya Silver's faith
Anya saw the world in colors.
Starting a conversation about anti-blackness
Christians helped create it. Can we help destroy it?
The many Jesuses of Asia
From Hindu Bible commentary to Christian minjung theology, the Asian Jesus has taken many forms.
The church's holy, subversive possessions
Ben Dueholm offers a humble apologetics—of faithful actions, not beliefs.
Women's rights, disability rights
Abortion, Down syndrome, and the question of prenatal testing
Democracy is always fragile
Protecting it requires all of us.
The silence of focused attention
Erling Kagge fears that the practice of stillness is endangered.
How the culture wars made Trump
The demons of the white evangelical past
In the Fearless Dialogues movement, people try to truly see each other
Gregory Ellison II's book evokes the sort of honest conversations he has been convening.
A book about ethics—and nearly everything else
John Stackhouse's real-world ethics primer covers just about every subject, but it leaves out an important one.
How Wendell Berry helps us negotiate our post-agrarian condition
Something is lost when we no longer know the art of filling a wagon.
The talented Tara Isabella Burton
In Burton's debut novel, Louise and Lavinia represent the possibility that compulsive self-disclosure is a form of self-concealment.
A deep history of women’s cultural criticism
Michelle Dean's book isn't exactly a group biography. But it is a highly entertaining feast of quotes, anecdotes, and analysis.
In The Baghdad Eucharist, an Iraqi Christian family weathers Saddam, U.S. invasion, and ISIS
Sinan Antoon's acclaimed novel, now out in English, sheds light on the realities faced by Christians in Iraq.
Letting Augustine be Augustine
How to capture the urgency of Confessions? New translations by Sarah Ruden and Peter Constantine offer very different approaches.
Steven Pinker’s absolute faith in reason
"This is not a book of Enlightenolatry," writes Pinker. But it is.
How a doctor finds hope at a Jerusalem hospital
Pediatric oncologist Elisha Waldman explores a city's complexities as he reflects on his patients' spiritual needs.
Helping white people talk about racism—with each other
Carolyn Helsel's guidebook is insightful, sensitive, and deeply practical.