Books
Astrolabes, sundials, candles, and clocks
Gillian Adler and Paul Strohm explore the medieval preoccupation with time.
Can incarceration ever be just?
Philosopher Tommie Shelby pushes me to question my abolitionist convictions.
Overshadowed by the Twelve
Holly Carey turns up the brightness on the most faithful disciples in the gospels: the women.
Naps against capitalism
How can rest be a political act? Poet-theologian Tricia Hersey returns to this question often.
White Christian nationalism’s heritage of extremism
Bradley Onishi brings his scholarship and his personal experience together to analyze where the church went wrong.
Seeking the Divine in the secular age
The modern mystics profiled in Bernard McGinn’s new book don’t experience ecstatic visions, supernatural miracles, or paranormal phenomena.
Edwards for all of us
George Marsden’s new book returns to the old project of making Jonathan Edwards modern.
Reading scripture through the experience of disability
Julia Watts Belser sees in the Torah a God who is in love with the creative possibilities of difference.
A refugee’s lonely heart
Beth Nguyen’s second memoir is a deep dive into the void of a mother’s absence and the silence surrounding it.
De-commodifying time
Jenny Odell argues that we need to get back in touch with our preindustrial sense of time.
Pentecostals laboring in the field
Lloyd Barba shows how Mexican farmworkers established a viable life in the face of California’s industrial agriculture machine.
Social gospel heroes?
Janine Drake identifies ulterior motives in the church’s collaboration with labor in the early 20th century.
What is forgiveness?
Myisha Cherry and Matthew Ichihashi Potts each challenge a new American mythology.
A glimpse of the world beyond
In his new novella, Jon Fosse allows a luminous narrative to unfold at a dreamlike pace.
The case that revolutionized libel law
Samantha Barbas’s history of New York Times v. Sullivan shows how easy it was to weaponize the law against southern civil rights leaders.
The reality of deep solidarity
For Joerg Rieger, theology must account for global power dynamics, which are largely driven by capitalism.
An ambitious queer reading of John of the Cross
Miguel Díaz takes the medieval mystic’s sexual metaphors for spirituality seriously—along with the lived experience of LGBTQ people.
What do people who’ve lost everything bring with them?
Stephanie Saldaña reminds us that refugees carry a whole world inside them.
Stories of hope amid the climate crisis
In this edited volume, the focus is on actions that have yielded significant results.
The deeply Methodist Hillary Clinton
Biographer Gary Scott Smith argues that Clinton’s faith lies at the very core of her identity.