Books
Is forbearance amid disagreement a Christian virtue?
We should forebear one another—not to ensure church unity, but because God forebears us.
Dar Williams has hope for America's small towns
The folk singer has observed what brings neighbors together in communities where she performs.
The unadorned self, living forward, and a great lake of beer
What I found when I looked up today’s date in four daily devotional books
The many lives of Adam and Eve
Stephen Greenblatt weaves an impressive—but incomplete—tapestry of interpretations of the story of the Fall.
Was the 1928 Paris Peace Pact really a failure?
It didn't eliminate war. Still, it transformed international relations.
The many perspectives of American evangelicalism
A new book of essays shows that evangelicals aren't all the same culturally or politically. So what's holding them together?
Is Trump a deviation from American values or an expression of them?
E. J. Dionne, Norman Ornstein, and Thomas Mann see this presidency as a distortion of the country's character. But what if it's the opposite?
The vocation of being a stranger
As a mother and a woman of color, I read Camille Dungy's book as a personal roadmap.
The complex world of one family farm
Ted Genoways overturns assumptions not only about industrial agriculture but also about the farmers who are part of it.
The New Testament in the strange words of David Bentley Hart
Greek and English do not work the same way. So what does it mean to create a literal translation?
Coffee table treasures
Most books are easy for me to give away. Not beautiful books about biblical manuscripts or Martin Luther’s legacy.
A civil debate about religious freedom
John Corvino, Ryan Anderson, and Sherif Girgis agree: religious liberty is good, discrimination is bad, and the clash between these values is complicated.
The history and myths that made Russia
How did Russia's longstanding sense of grievance morph into a civil religion?
Serpents and salvation
Glimpses into the faith of snake-handling holiness Christians
The sparkle of James McBride's stories
Five-Carat Soul is filled with hilarious storytelling, unusual characters, and stark realities.
The burdens and blessings of intentional community
What happens when a group of radical idealists tries to live together?
The Vietnam War was worse than just a tragic miscalculation
Why are Americans always cast as the well-meaning innocents and others as the bad actors?
A conversation in transition
Two new books help us talk about what it means to be transgender in a changing world.
The vocation of Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau's beautiful writing, biographer Laura Dassow Walls shows, is scripture waiting to be heard.
Poetry grounded in place
Paul Willis's poems reveals epiphanies in the midst of everyday life.